Index / Public
Dear We Have Been
Anthony Autumn responds to ‘Barricadia’ by Sahej Rahal at CCA, 16 September - 29 October
Voicing the Archive
An installation of readings from MAP’s archive at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
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
Remarks: New Commission for Threshold
In his first solo show in the UK, Igor Krenz creates new work for Threshold artspace’s permanent collection. Here, he talks about the commission ‘Circles and Squares’ and his YouTube Mix.
Commission: Martin Boyce
The artist presents archival material related to new work for this year’s Venice Biennale
Remarks: Artist Rooms
Senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Philip Long introduces the much-awaited ARTIST ROOMS, lauched 22 January and set to take contemporary art to unexpected places.
Report: Exhibition by Commission
Jane Neal traces the path of a new phenomenon in British art: the meteoric rise of the public commission.
Emerging: Ettie Spencer
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
Report: What is ‘Public’ in Public Art?
Christophe Gallois on the Site-Specific
Diary: Theatre of Dreams
Patrick Semple reports from the terraces at this year’s Art Cup in remote Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Record Restore Reconstruct?
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith takes stock of ‘temporary’ artwork, with Blinky Palermo at Edinburgh College of Art and Ian Hamilton Finlay at Inverleith House in mind
Art of the Public
Ken Neil investigates the work of Eva Merz and Dalziel + Scullion—artists taking a political view in the north
Ryoji Ikeda, Nuit Blanche 4/5 October, Tour Montparnasse
11 October 2008–12 January 2009 Le Laboratoire, Paris