Index / Performance
Ian White Book Launch
Giles Bailey records his experience of the launch event at the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, for ’Here is Information. Mobilise. Ian White’, a book of selected writings, published by LUX
#39 - July 2017
Review
For Now / Six Propositions
Elizabeth Reeder responds to a series of performances by Siobhan Davies Dance company at Tramway
It is this it is this, it is this
A Portrait of Margaret Tait. Transcript of ‘It is this it is this, it is this’, a performative video-essay by Laura Edbrook & Sarah Forrest
It is this it is this, it is this: Documentation
Documentation of event at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 11 June 2016
The Hollow Mountain
Voice in the live performance of Maria Fusco’s, ‘Master Rock’, by Claire Walsh
MAP Screen | Reading in the Dark
Images from Glasgow Film Festival event curated by Suzanne van der Lingen.
Unmastered, Remastered by Katherine Angel & The Blackburn Company
Curated reading of the book ‘Unmastered / A Book On Desire, Most Difficult to Tell’
‘A Feminist Chorus’ by Lucy Reynolds | Recording, March 2014
Recording for A Feminist Chorus at Glasgow Kelvin College, 21 March, 2014
#26 - November 2012
Slow dissolve to—
Room Interior. Closed Door. She walks slowly through scene and exits, by Laura Edbrook and Ailsa Lochhead
The Fruit of Their Actions
Laura Edbrook engages in the psychology of a recent work by artist duo Smith/Stewart
Shoplifters Shopgirls
Glasgow-based artists Sophie Macpherson and Clare Stephenson talk to Steven Cairns about their recent collaboration and how theatrical contexts have shaped it
Remarks: In These Troubled Times
Jesse Jones and Fiona Marron discuss their Dublin workshops
Footnoting the Archive at Glasgow Sculpture Studios
MAP presents an event as part of Footnoting the Archive | 2-4pm, 11 June 2016
#37 - June 2016
Living with the Promises of Appearances
Performance and Broadcast by Sarah Rose and Rebecca Wilcox | 9.45 - 10.45pm, 21 June 2016
Listen up! The best art & philosophy is on YouTube 4shure
MAP presented Gillian Wylde’s ‘Will internets eat brain’ for Glasgow Film Festival 2017, Friday 24 February, 6-7.30, CCA cinema, Glasgow
‘A Feminist Chorus’ by Lucy Reynolds, curated by MAP
Glasgow International: ‘A Feminist Chorus’, one film, two sound works and a performance, spanning three venues, 5—21 April, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow School of Art & 5 Blythswood Square
‘A Feminist Chorus’ voices at The Glasgow School of Art
The sound work installed in the Hen Run during Glasgow International 2014 is now online
#31 - September 2014
‘A Feminist Chorus’ voices at 5 Blythswood Square
The sound work installed during Glasgow International 2014 is now online
‘A Feminist Chorus’
Live at Glasgow Women’s Library, Saturday 5 April, Glasgow International 2014
#29 - August 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 7a
A witness statement in the form of a text and image, produced in response to Object 6a ‘Woman Crawling On Hands And Knees’. A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
#29 - August 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 7b
A witness statement in the form of a text, produced in response to Object 6b ‘The Idea’. A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 5a
‘Object Removed’ A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
#28 - April 2013
In the Shadow of the Hand : Object 5b
‘Witness Statement’ A collaborative project by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
Guy de Cointet
Giles Bailey meets Marie de Brugerolle to talk about the renewed interest in the avant-garde artist’s surreal performances
Performance, Land Art and Photography
Francesco Gagliardi unpicks the ambiguity of the photographic document and its role as a cipher in both performance and land art from 1960 to the late 1970s
Emerging: Cara Tolmie
Will Holder examines the complex practice of this London-based artist
Power Structures, Pantomimes and Parodies
The installations and performances of Paris-based artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar draw from a kaleidoscopic field of identities and histories—from Rastafarianism to Super Studio, from shorthand typists to burlesque entertainers. Here, in conversation with Joanna Fiduccia, she discusses the ambiguities, both sculptural and moral, behind her very particular Follies, and what it means to be the woman behind the curtain
Performance and Pedagogy: All Talk, Some Action
Karen Archey sheds light on the rise of performance and pedagogy in contemporary art practice
Remarks: Performa 09
Roselee Goldberg, founder and director of Performa, maps out the origins, current programme, and future of the biennial of performance in New York City
Report: Art, Adolescence and Sociality
Sean Ashton takes a view from the crowd during ‘Our Name is Legion’, an event orchestrated by Kelly Large in Sleaford at 3pm on 30 April, 2009
Residency: Simon Fujiwara
Oliver Basciano meets Simon Fujiwara to discuss his work and recent residency in LA
Back In To It
Darren Rhymes puts words together with new ‘Write Ups’ made for these pages by Sue Tompkins, an artist known for her performance and works on paper
Report: Back To You: Contemporary Performative Practice
Sarah Lowndes explores a current wave in contemporary art
Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Jason Pierce
The collaborators behind Silent Sound on their Liverpool Biennial performance based around the idea of spiritualism
Emerging: Ben and Holly
We introduce two pairs of artists who attracted attention at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2006; and two individual artists who are making a visible mark on the landscape of environmental art
Diary: Theatre of Dreams
Patrick Semple reports from the terraces at this year’s Art Cup in remote Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Certain of Nothing: Francis Alÿs
Francis McKee traces the path of Belgian artist Francis Alÿs as he explores the boundaries between politics, poetry and art
Richard Foreman: Idiot Savant, The Public Theater
27 October–20 December, 2009, New York
William Hunt
13 September–31 October, 2008, Witte de With Rotterdam, Rotterdam
The International Necronautical Society (INS) 17 January
17 January, Tate Britain, London
#24 - November 2010
Review
Elizabeth McAlpine
26 October–20 November, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Music: Melanie Gilligan: Prison for Objects
10 April–10 May 2008, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Gillian Wearing
24 March–10 June 2007, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Chris Burden
15 September–5 November 2006, South London Gallery and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Scorpio’s Garden
12 October–15 November, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Books: Journey to the Lower World
By Marcus Coates, edited by Alec Finlay, published by Platform Projects and Morning Star, 2005, ISBN 0 9546831 6 1
Laurie Anderson
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 17 February-2 May and Queens Hall, Edinburgh, 29 April
History of Disappearance—Live Art From New York 1975–Present
Baltic, 18 June-4 September, 2005
Country Grammar
Ruth Barker reviews ‘Country Grammar’ by Sue Tompkins (featuring work by Luke Fowler) at The Modern Institute Aird’s Lane, Glasgow, 30 September - 4 November
Event over. Premier of Others got wings for flying by Megan Rooney
Megan Rooney’s new performance, created for the MAP commission 2017, was presented at Tramway, 7.30-8.30, 7 December.
Others got wings for flying: performance
Others got wings for flying, the MAP commission 2017, in collaboration with Megan Rooney, arrived at its conclusion with the premiere of Rooney’s eponymous performance at Tramway, Glasgow
The Engagement Party
Aniela Piasecka and Paloma Proudfoot share a text from their recent performance at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Choreography Concept for Untrained Amateurs
Gordon Douglas responds to a work by performance group, contact Gonzo, at BUoY, Tokyo, 28 - 29 October 2017
Esther Ferrer
Mónica Laiseca talks to the Spanish artist who has recently performed at Glasgow International 2018
Wannabe: notes toward a performance
Aniela Piasecka of Stasis on research, girl gangs and residency ambivalence
Folded multi-page travel itineraries with stage directions
The first in a series of research texts by Gordon Douglas reporting on encounters with collaborative practice in Japan
Handwritten personal details on a deck of fluorescent green playing cards
Second in a series of research texts by Gordon Douglas reporting on encounters with collaborative practice in Japan
The word ‘Tradition’ with several circles around it indicating it’s been alluded to multiple times in a conversation
Third in a series of research texts by Gordon Douglas reporting on encounters with collaborative practice in Japan
An upside down triangle with a two-headed arrow between the top two apexes. In the middle of this arrow, a dotted line with ‘SOCIAL’ written on one side and ‘SEXUAL’ on the other
Fourth in a series of research texts by Gordon Douglas reporting on encounters with collaborative practice in Japan
The cheapest notebook purchased hastily and a pencil decorated with the newest generation of Pokemon
Last in a series of research texts by Gordon Douglas reporting on encounters with collaborative practice in Japan.
We Nurture
Gordon Douglas participates in Shona MacNaughton’s new performance on Calton Hill
Cannibal O
An intimate evening of feminist cannibalism hosted by Catalina Barroso-Luque around a circular dining table and premiered at Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow on 17 April 2019. Twenty eight images by Isobel Lutz-Smith tell the story.
She says, my body contains blood baths. How will you care for it?
A response by Kiah Endelman Music to Louise Ahl’s Hevi Metle, a durational performance of six hours, six minutes and six seconds which draws on a feminist approach to alchemy. Made in collaboration with Australian choreographer Angela Goh, Glasgow-based artist Michelle Hannah and including an integrated touch tour by Edinburgh-based Juliana Capes, the work was first seen at Tramway, Glasgow and will be re-presented on 12 February 2020 at Baltic.
Tongues
MAP screens a new film by Màiri Lafferty, alongside ‘Polyphonic Repentance’, a text by Holly Yeoman
Performance & Language: 1st invitation from Good on Paper
Over six months, Gordon Douglas and Cicely Farrer share a series of invitations that look into the futures of performance art making in Scotland. The first invites readers to attend a workshop on 27 March 2022
To Revolt
Appendix 1 of Good on Paper’s first invitation to readers to join the Performance & Language workshop
To Compose
Appendix 3 of Good on Paper’s first invitation to readers to join the Performance & Language workshop
To Entertain
Appendix 4 of Good on Paper’s first invitation to readers to join the Performance & Language workshop
To Maintain
Appendix 2 of Good on Paper’s first invitation to readers to join the Performance & Language workshop