Index / Review
Parallel Play
Jenny Wu reviews Ligia Lewis’s exhibition study now steady at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York
You know it’s not the same as it was:
Caitlin Merrett King attends The Promise of Pleasure, the closing event for Good Bad Books?, a series of workshops and talks organised by Naomi Pearce and Anna Bunting-Branch and held at the Barbican in August/September 2023
‘As if writing were not sleeping’
Hilary White reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless
Repeat Patterns
New work by Helen de Main & Mandy McIntosh at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. Review by Catherine Spencer
Polyphonic Practice
Kylie Gilchrist visits the biennial MOMENTUM 12: Together as to Gather, in Moss, Norway
History of the Present
Cheryl McGregor writes on a new film by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon screening in Dundee, London and at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2023
Cowrie Shells on Rope
Cheryl McGregor reflects on the work of Saoirse Amira Anis recently showing at DCA, Dundee
‘there are other ways to experience things beyond having an explanation’
Myriam Mouflih takes a walk to see Alter Altar by Jasleen Kaur at Tramway, Glasgow
Midsummer Blow Out
Alison Scott takes a walk through Art Night, a major event that hit the Dundee streets on the evening of Saturday 24 June
do only interesting people get interested?
Caitlin Merrett King climbs into a Glasgow gallery weekend, 12/13 May
‘A headless statue of Nausicca seems to float on a rock in front of the graveyard’
Jude Browning reviews Jennifer Higgie’s latest book, The Other Side: a journey into women, art and the spirit world, W&N, 2023
Life Without Style
Jenny Wu reviews the exhibition Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish at MoMA PS1, New York
Consider Labour
Cheryl Mcgregor reviews the exhibition Harun Farocki: Consider Labour at Cooper Gallery, Dundee
as rivers flow and cities blossom
Guilherme Vilhena Martins reviews an exhibition in Hamburg by Leith-based Camila Ospina Gaitán and friend Juan Ricaurte Riveros
There’s a Ghost in my Machine
Melissa McCarthy attends the conference Photography and Memory in Edinburgh. Her story of the day includes a rollicking retrospective, cine film actually made of seaweed and storage unit musings
New Blue
Bella Marrin responds to an event at Café Oto, London celebrating Blue Monday by Zara Joan Miller
Touch the Veil
Corin Sworn visits Buenos Aires and finds a collection of written tracings in Leticia Obeid’s installation at Hache Gallery
THAT GNAWING FEELING
Sara O’Brien responds to Paige Silverman’s Pleasure Pest
Cat’s have paws, can’t take them off
Kate Morgan responds to On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays by Emily Ogden
ALL AT ONCE, AT A PACE OF AWE
A review of Brazilian artist Ana Vaz’s film Look Closely at the Mountains. By Kate Timney
MESHES AND MELDING OF PAST AND PRESENCE
Sara O’Brien responds to Chimera, work by Nashashibi/Skaer at Cooper Gallery, Dundee
‘I’m still a painter and will die a painter’
Neil Cooper surveys the epic homage to Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at Barbican, London
On traces of rhythm
Marina Iodice at Listen Gallery, Glasgow. Review by Laura Plant
I wondered if I would care if I saw him again
People Person by Sam Cottington. A review by Caitlin Merrett King
no dearer time
Rosie Roberts responds to Norman Gilbert: an exhibition of work by the Glasgow artist in his south side neighbourhood
Workaround
‘The Creep of Life’. Kate Morgan reviews the solo exhibition Workaround by Charlie Hammond at The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
BRICK, BLOCK, INK, STONE
Cheryl McGregor reviews Craig Coulthard’s new solo show
STRINGS RESUME DANCING
Alice Hill-Woods finds a collaborative refrain resonating through the Institut français d’Écosse, Edinburgh
LANDSCAPES OF RUMOURED LONELINESS
Clara Raillard reviews Don’t Believe Everything Yves Leather Tells You at The Pipe Factory
Radio on the Union Canal
Timothea Armour takes the train and tunes into the noise. ‘Background noise is about foregrounding the background—everything that is usually seen as sideline to what has been made’
Sickness In The Sacristy
Hayley Jane Dawson reviews recent work by Megan Rudden at Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow
A celebration
Caitlin Merrett King reviews the exhibition I will have my cake and eat it too, Ragini Chawla at Goethe-Institut, Glasgow
A Luminous Decay
On ‘A Moving X-Ray’, seven films by Sandra Lahire on Another Screen. By Caitlin Merrett King
Time: A Single Basic Fact
Sarah Long visits Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s An Experiment with Time at CCA, Glasgow
Bite The Hand That Feeds You
Rose Higham-Stainton considers forms of domestication and care as control in the work of Yalda Afsah at Kunstverein München
Fluid Systems
Alice Hill-Woods reviews a collection of poems that ‘understand the quiet, polychromatic force of being seen’
Light at the End of the Dial
Daniella Watson Hughes listens in to Radiophrenia, a festival of sound transmitting from Glasgow’s CCA
Mutations
Jamie Donald writes on the second Sit In of Cooper Gallery’s three-year project The Ignorant Art School
In A Sound World
Nicol Parkinson reviews a collection of early twentieth-century writings by Victor Segalen, including the first English translation, by Marie Roux and RWM Hunt, of the French ethnographer’s novel of troubled synaesthesia, In A Sound World (Strange Attractor Press, 2021)
Painted Fragments
Victoria Horne examines new paintings by Alison Watt at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Anam creative and The Alchemy Experiment
Maria Sledmere visits the launch of a new collaborative platform for musicians and artists in Glasgow
A Measure of Longing
Enxhi Mandija reviews The Mourning Lines by Tamarin Norwood, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2021
Rooms are shells, they are skins
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews two Munich exhibitions that cut deep imprints into institutional pasts
‘Non-Negotiable Condition’
Sarah Messerschmidt reviews Metabolic Rift at Berlin Atonal
Art work
James Bell reviews Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism at the Glasgow Women’s Library
Private Sectors
Jamie Limond reviews Caroline Walker: Windows at KM21, The Hague
Little Palestine
Elhum Shakerifar reflects on Abdallah Al-Khatib’s poetry and film
Hobbyhorses: On Maggie Nelson
Christopher Law considers On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021)
Tax the Rich
Caitlin Merrett King visits Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2021 and considers the economics at play in the work of Ane Hjort Guttu, Rehana Zaman and Jordan Lord
Chronicler
Kirsty Hendry responds to Alice Hattrick’s new book Ill Feelings
Intimacy Creeps
Rose Higham-Stainton traces quotidian matter through three exhibitions in Edinburgh and Glasgow by Scottish artists Karla Black, Christine Borland and Gwenan Davies
She Exclaimed
Holly Pester considers exclamation marks in Second Place by Rachel Cusk and Sarah Tripp’s Guitar!
Weeds on War
Rose Higham-Stainton reflects on Orford Ness in Suffolk and site-specific artworks by Alice Channer, Tatiana Trouvé, Emma McNally and others
Home Economics
Rachel Boyd visits an exhibition that brings together the work of Franki Raffles and Margaret Salmon. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Looking at Quilts
Mhari McMullan reviews work by Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way at Glasgow Print Studio. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Unsettling Ecologies: We Began By Measuring Distance
Phoebe Campion on Basma Alsharif’s film, part of the Another Gaze programme ‘For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women’. The festival closes 18 June
Peripheral Visions
Jamie Limond reviews Carol Rhodes: See the World at Kelvingrove, part of Glasgow International 2021
Nothing Personal
Susannah Thompson reviews a new journal that dares to ask the awkward questions and poses complex ideas around critical conversation
A Public Class: Radical Pub Crawl
Timothea Armour goes on a virtual pub crawl hosted by artist Ruth Ewan and Cooper Gallery, Dundee
They lay on the floor like starfish
Ben Nicholson looks into Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2021, Thu 29 Apr-Mon 3 May
Jukebox Jive
Neil Cooper listens in to An Optimism Class: A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World
Intertitles
Fiona Glen reads a new collection, published this week. Quinn Latimer, Laure Prouvost, Charlotte Prodger and Fatema Abdoolcarim are among the 30 contributors
Archival engagements
A review of films showing at Essay Film Festival 2021, by Andrew Northrop
We Leave Together
Matt Turner views two films by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers
Drilling Through Hard Boards
Andrew Key reviews Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall (2020) at Glasgow Film Festival
CAST by Jamie Donald
A response to Sharon Hayes’ ‘Fingernails on a blackboard: Bella’ which was screened at the launch of the year long GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW—Artist Moving Image Festival 2021
Cinema of resistance
Anahit Behrooz reviews Mohammad Rasoulof’s ‘There is No Evil’ at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Ocean time
Rhian Williams reviews Minna Dufton’s Big vs. Small at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Mountain Water
April Yee reviews Minari and Mekong 2030, two films from this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Weird Folds
Susannah Thompson reads an expansive anthology of poetry just published. ‘I can’t breathe but it’s worth it’
Field Notes
Naomi Gessesse chooses highlights from Glasgow Short Film Festival online, August 2020
Letters for/against Wild Invention: Part 3
The final instalment of A+E Collective’s epistolary response to The Wild Book of Invention, Sternberg Press, 2020
Letters for/against Wild Invention: Part 2
Over three instalments, A+E Collective respond in epistolary form to The Wild Book of Invention, Sternberg Press, 2020
Letters for/against Wild Invention: Part 1
Over three instalments, A+E Collective respond in epistolary form to The Wild Book of Invention, Sternberg Press, 2020
Minerva in Seven Pieces
Nina Hanz reads Johanna Hedva’s new book, Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, releasing 2 September, 2020 with Sming Sming and Wolfman Books.
Chunky, alive things
Romy Danielewicz concludes a series of three artist responses to ‘Strangers’—a new book of essays by Rebecca Tamás, Makina Press, 2020
THE OCEAN WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona’s critical poetics respond to (Extra)Terrestrial Currents, an online programme of artist moving image, sound and text, presented by Obsidian Coast
On Permeability and Companionship
Stephanie Mann writes in the second of a series of three artist responses to ‘Strangers’—a new book of essays by Rebecca Tamás, Makina Press, 2020
Shimmering Surface, Radical Depth
Rosalind Blake’s writing introduces a set of three responses to ‘Strangers’—a new book of essays by Rebecca Tamás, published by Makina Books, 2020
Curatorial Bondage
A lack of faith in the solo show leaves The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg In Dialogue bound and tied, writes Jamie Limond
‘Some things–by which I mean everything’
Timothea Armour takes a look at Heather Phillipson’s first monograph, published by Prestel, July 2020
farewell, Art: Imagining a Hospitable Planetary Future
Angeliki Roussou reflects on ‘farewell, Art’, a project by Bureau d’études commissioned by Rhubaba, Edinburgh
Every film screening, its own kind of love affair
Kaya Erdinç reviews Masha Tupitsyn’s latest book Picture Cycle, Semiotext(e)
GROVE AND GRIEF
Clare Patterson reads ‘Grove’ by Esther Kinsky, Fitzcarraldo Editions, April 2020
‘Liquiform Murmurs’
Nisha Ramayya explores Vahni Capildeo’s invitations in Odyssey Calling, Sad Press, 2020
Romance in what feels like The End
Marie Lopez reviews Elaine Kahn’s latest poetry collection Romance or the End, Soft Skull Press, 2020
The Allure of Simultaneity
Kashif Sharma-Patel explores social poetics, culture and experimental writing in Anthony Joseph’s The Frequency of Magic
Listen To This
Neil Cooper explores a host of meditations and recent listenings on ‘the impossibility of silence’ unfolding through the past, present and uncertain future
Attention Economies
William Kherbek attends Glasgow International’s Digital Programme 23 April - 31 May 2020
ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL, LIVE
Alexander Storey-Gordon tuned into (and out of) the digital programme, 1-3 May 2020
Different kinds of now
Anna Chapman Parker reads Funny Weather, Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing, Picador, London 2020
Why, They Call it Idlewild
Erica Scourti remotely reviews Helen Cammock’s exhibition ‘They Call It Idlewild’ at Wysing Arts Centre, affirming a vision where respecting the human need for downtime is a vital act of care.
Feasting on Words
Language gets swilled about, chopped and chewed, slid around, and spat out, ready to be eaten up again. Sara O’Brien reviews ‘Old Food’, a novel by Ed Atkins
Paradoxical Paintings
In our final review which involved a venue visit, Gwen Burlington visits Pacita Abad, Life in the Margins, Spike Island, 18 January 2020—closed until further notice
Feeling Around in the Dark
Rhea Storr visited Steve McQueen at Tate Modern, London before lockdown and found a masterclass in taking care of the dead
Light Translations
Rebecca Wilcox listens in and responds to ‘Stolen Voices Album Launch’ by Johanna Linsley & Rebecca Louise Collins, CCA, Glasgow
MOTHER-SHIP
Rose Higham-Stainton attends the launch of MOTHER by Studio Morison at Wicken Fen 29th February 2020
Ambiguous Heterotopias
James Bell reviews Seized by the Left Hand at Dundee Contemporary Arts
A Gnostic Romance
Jessica Ramm reviews Alex Impey –Gnostic Cautery at The Hunterian, Glasgow 16th November 2019 – 23rd February 2020
Improviser’s Rehearsal
Gwenan Davies reviews In Emotia, by France-Lise McGurn in T5 at Tramway
Our World - The World to Come
‘Wayward machines and knotted weeds fill the empty space, move with it, sound across its borders.’ Esther Draycott visits a show at 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow January 2020
A possible space for the life of a girl
Nell Osborne considers Lisa Robertson’s debut novel The Baudelaire Fractal
Networks and Their Discontents
William Kherbek visits The Eternal Network, the key group exhibition in transmediale 2020 festival—End to End, HKW, Berlin
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.
12 Hour Non-State Parade
Angeliki Roussou attended the Cooper Gallery’s marathon symposium in Dundee at the end of last year and found it ‘…surgically curated, perfectly executed, homely and inclusive’. Read more of her report here
Anna Maria Maiolino
Maria Howard responds to this extraordinary Brazilian artist’s retrospective, Making Love Revolutionary, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London until 12 January 2020
The Pleasure of Expense
‘This exhibition… portrays both an ideological time-gone-by and a tableau of our emerging present.’ Ken Neil reviews the recent exhibition by Jasmina Cibic at the Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Hanging Out
Artist Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland at Tramway, Glasgow, 16/17 November 2019. Review by Cicely Farrer
Healing Thoughts
William Kherbek reviews Honey-Suckle Company: Omnibus, ICA, London, 2 October 2019 to 12 January 2020
Having failed to get a room in a static caravan: a fragment of a fragment
A dual account of a day at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2019. Alison Scott and Rosie Roberts writing as again+again.
On Venus
Daniel Fountain reviews Patrick Staff’s new show at the Serpentine Galleries, 8 November 2019 to 9 February 2020
The Twin
Esther Draycott responds to the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art 2019. 4 October to 24 November
Against dialogue, or, we need to sing to mountains
Notes from the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 19–22 September 2019. By Marcus Jack
‘Look at your shoes.’
Peter Amoore will travel around Edinburgh in search of artists’ work.
Cindy, Hanna and Grayson
Neil Cooper reviews three exhibitions in the Edinburgh Art Festival. Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80, Stills until 6 October. Hanna Tuulikki: Deer Dancer, Edinburgh Printmakers until 5 October. Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour, Dovecot Studios until 2 November
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage
National Galleries of Scotland, Modern Two. Until 27 Oct 2019. Review by Victoria Horne
Soap Suds
‘Stoop, Stoop, Stooping is Stoopid!’. Rachel Adams and Tessa Lynch at Studio Pavilion, House for an Art Lover, 13 Jul-15 Sep 2019. Gwen Dupré responds.
a plot for the multiverse
Featuring works by Shiraz Bayoo, Amba Sayal-Bennet, Harminder Judge, Hardeep Pandhal and Himali Singh-Soin. Curated by Sitara Chowfla for indigo+madder, until 10 August, 2019. Review by Emily Hale
Sunday Fantasy, an exhibition and film by Zoe Williams
Mimosa House, London, 25 May–27 Jul. Review by Ari Níelsson
Cecilia Vicuña: A Retrospective
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 26 May-10 Nov 2019. Review by William Kherbek
PULPO MOTORINO:
pounding the pages of Laure Prouvost’s Legsicon (Book Works 2019) with Rosie Roberts
Beyond the God’s Eye, Cian Dayrit
NOME, Berlin, 27 Apr-12 Jun, 2019. Review by William Kherbek
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1 May–4 Aug. Review by Neil Cooper
Spaces, Places
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, 2-6 May, 2019. Review by Ben Nicholson
‘Persepolis Now?’
A Utopian Stage at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin. Curated by Vali Mahlouji | Archeology of the Final Decade. Review by Sumugan Sivansan
New Waves: Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School
The Mosaic Rooms 12/04/19–22/06/19. Review by Kylie Gilchrist
It Bites Back
Gabriella Beckhurst reviews the viral solo show by Pedro Neves Marques at Gasworks, London, 11 Apr-16 June 2019
We Nurture
Gordon Douglas participates in Shona MacNaughton’s new performance on Calton Hill
How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions
William Kherbek reviews a group exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 16 November 2018 - 12 May 2019
A Dream of Linnaeus’ Daughter
Phoebe Blatton on two recent exhibitions in Berlin: Navigating Polarities by Marjolijn Dijkman at Nome, and A Dream of Linnaeus’ Daughter by Katarzyna Kozyra at Żak|Branicka
The Elegance of the Octopus
Tom Jeffreys reviews Strange Foreign Bodies, a group show at The Hunterian, Glasgow, 28 September 2018 - 10 February 2019
What moves you?
Rebecca O’Dwyer reports on Transmediale, Berlin, 31 Jan - 3 Feb
Crone Music
Philomena Epps reviews Beatrice Gibson at Camden Arts Centre, London, 18 January - 31 March
The Ignorant Curator
Katy Bentham visits Festival of the Not by Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 - 20 January
Extreme times call for extreme heroines
Victoria Horne visits Keepin’ It Clean by Betye Saar at New-York Historical Society, 2 November 2018 - 27 May 2019
Burning Ties
Harry Weeks reviews Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective at Baltic, Gateshead, 19 October 2018 - 27 January 2019
Workers!
Lauren Houlton on a new film by Petra Bauer and sex-worker led charity SCOT-PEP, commissioned by Collective Gallery and first screened at Filmhouse, Edinburgh, 24 November
Flying Fox
Calum Sutherland visits Louise Hopkins’ solo exhibition at CAMPLE LINE, Dumfriesshire, 8 September - 15 December
Constant Companion
Philippa Snow reviews Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler’s account of taking on seasonal work at Amazon
Pastoral Drama
Eliel Jones visits Jamie Crewe’s recent exhibition at Tramway, Glasgow, 16 September - 28 October
Blaze on, picture
William Kherbek reviews The Ballad of Saint Jerome by Jesse Darling, Tate Britain, London, 22 September - 24 February
Make Me Up
Victoria Horne reviews the new feature-length film by Rachel Maclean
A SHELL, A HOUSE, A HOME, A FACE, A FAÇADE, A FRONTISPIECE
Hussein Mitha responds to COCO!NUTS! by Rabiya Choudhry at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 15 September - 20 October
Permanently Temporary
Lotte L.S. visits A Postcard from Amsterdam, an exhibition by Charlott Weise and Franziska Schulz at LOWER.GREEN, a temporary gallery space in Norwich
Electric Speech
Emma Balkind reviews Telephone by Ariana Reines, published by Wonder
The Big Sneeze
Philomena Epps reviews Mika Rottenberg at Goldsmiths CCA, London, 6 September - 4 November 2018
Do you really just want to be part of a band?
Notes from the 14th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 20-23 September 2018, by Marcus Jack
The Symptom and The Cure
Matthew Turner reviews The Anti Ecstatic Machines by Benedict Drew at Matt’s Gallery, London, 22–30 September
Beneath the Platform
William Kherbek reflects on the 10th Berlin Biennale, We Don’t Need Another Hero, 9 June - 9 September
‘To repeat this circle’
Rediscovering Margaret Tait at 100: Sarah Neely reports on three important exhibitions.
CRYSTALLINE CHRYSALIS CRISIS
David Upton reports on a dissident takeover of Summerhall’s basement by artist and musician Fritz Welch
‘tomorrow maybe they will kill us’
Edinburgh Art Festival: Katy Hastie writes in response to Shilpa Gupta’s For, in your tongue I cannot hide at The Fire Station, Edinburgh College of Art, 26 July - 26 August
back in at the deep end
Emma Balkind reflects on SINK by Janice Kerbel, commissioned by The Common Guild and performed at The Western Baths Club, Glasgow
WOMAN WITH A RED HAT
Edinburgh Art Festival: Tom Jeffreys reflects on ‘Event for a Stage’ by Tacita Dean, part of Woman with a Red Hat, Fruitmarket, 7 July - 30 September
Hemispheric Phases
Edinburgh Art Festival: Tom Jeffreys visits a group exhibition at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, including work by Birthe Jorgensen, Scott Rogers and Santiago Poggio, 28 July - 26 August
AMENABLE ARCHIVE
Edinburgh Art Festival: Calum Sutherland considers The Green Man by Lucy Skaer and others at Talbot Rice Gallery, 26 July - 6 October
New Order, Other Spaces
Lucy Weir writes on an exhibition by Jo Longhurst exploring the personal and professional in competitive gymnastics. Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, 2 - 12 August
The skin is an organ
Sam Playford-Greenwell on ECZEMA!, written and directed by Maria Fusco as part of The National Theatre of Wales’ NHS70 Festival
Something for the Boys
Eliel Jones reviews a new film work by Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings at Two Queens, Leicester, 30 June - 1 September
Naked and Practical
Amy Todman reviews a new collection of short stories, scenes and fragments by Siân Robinson Davies, published by tenletters
The fact that we do
Joanna Peace writes on EVA International in Limerick in the context of the Irish Referendum
Chapter Ten
The tenth and final instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Sophie Collins
Chapter Nine
The ninth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Alberta Whittle
Chapter Eight
The eighth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Jeremy Millar
Chapter Seven
The seventh instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Khairani Barokka
Chapter Six
The sixth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Sarah Tripp & Simon Buckley
Chapter Five
The fifth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Suzanne van der Lingen
Chapter Four
The fourth instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Susan Finlay
Chapter Three
The third instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by Eley Williams
Chapter Two
The second instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply by William Kherbek
Chapter One
The first instalment of Out of Office Auto-Reply, a collaborative serial fiction project following the exploits of art critic Colin Clout
We’re all strangers in someone’s pub
Nasser Hussain reviews Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature edited by Isabel Waidner, published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe
GI reviews and responses
Last in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018, Maria Howard writes on Nadia Myre at The Briggait, Cross-feed by Gary Zhexi Zhang & Aniara Omann and Self-Service by Kirsty Hendry & Ilona Sagar
GI reviews and responses
Sixth in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018, Ari Nielsson writes on Torsten Lauschmann at GSA, ‘i’ The Opera at The Art School and Cabinet Interventions at Pollok House
GI reviews and responses
Fifth in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018 presentations, Calum Sutherland reviews Ross Birrell at CCA, Mark Leckey at Tramway and Michael White at Oxford House
GI reviews and responses
Fourth in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018 presentations, Gordon Douglas responds to iQhiya at Transmission and XSexcentenary at Glasgow Necropolis PLUS an intimate question for Hannah and Jenny are here 4 u
GI reviews and responses
Third in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018 presentations, Neil Cooper reviews Katinka Bock at the Common Guild, Corin Sworn at Koppe Astner and Scott Caruth at House for an Art Lover
GI reviews and responses
Second in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018 presentations, Samar Ziadat writes on sorryyoufeeluncomfortable’s group show at Many Studios
GI reviews and responses
First in a series of reviews and responses to Glasgow International 2018 presentations, Ruth Barker writes on Linder at Glasgow Women’s Library, Celluar World group show at GoMA, and Michelle Hannah’s Keener at The Savings Bank
the problem that has no name
Victoria Horne on Lara Feigel’s Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing
Deeper In The Pyramid
Laura O’Leary explores Melanie Jackson’s exhibition at Grand Union, Birmingham, 2 February - 21 April
Consequences of progress; remnants for the future
Jazmine Linklater on mutability in the works of Ruth Barker and Hannah Leighton-Boyce at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 9 March - 29 April
a new thread, wayward
Rebecca Wilcox responds to Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings at Tate St Ives, 10 February - 29 April
The you in us
Kylie Gilchrist reviews Lydia Ourahmane’s solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, 26 January - 25 March
more of an avalanche
Helena Haimes on the group show at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 11 February - 8 April
Give Up Art
Rebecca O’Dwyer on Maria Fusco’s ‘exciting alongsidedness’ Give Up Art (2018), collected critical writings from 2002-2017, published by New Documents
Infinite Resistance™
Eliel Jones on the healing potential of Interlocutor by Rachal Bradley, Gasworks, London, 25 January - 18 March
In Place of Hate
Jessica Ramm considers the results of Edmund Clark’s three-year residency at HMP Grendon, the UK’s only therapeutic prison. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 6 December 2017 - 11 March 2018
On Margate Sands
Philomena Epps explores Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’ at Turner Contemporary, Margate, 3 February - 7 May 2018
A world through Colorado Pink
William Kherbek reviews Ian Giles’ exhibition After BUTT at Chelsea Space, London, 24 January - 2 March
Physical or Otherwise
Gwendolen Dupré on the alchemy of Suggestions and Encounters: Physical or Otherwise by Leontios Toumpouris at The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow, 9 February - 4 March
The Breath From Fertile Grounds
Claire Walsh on Otobong Nkanga’s solo exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, 8 December 2017 - 10 February 2018
The Conversation
Kathryn Lloyd on Holly Davey’s archival restagings at g39, Cardiff, 11 November 2017 - 3 February 2018
Civil Rites
Fiona Anderson on Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film at Tyneside cinema, Newcastle, part of Freedom City festival, 8 December 2017 - 22 January 2018
Making Our Way
Anna McLauchlan navigates Shelter Stone: The Artist and the Mountain, a year-long public art project in the form of a newspaper
‘A Murderous Fury’
Felix Bazalgette on the politics and protest behind Art and Space at the Guggenheim Bilbao, 5 December 2017 - 18 April 2018
Fatal Softness
Henry Broome reviews an exhibition by Pauline Batista and Madeleine Stack at The Koppel Project, London, 17 November 2017 – 6 January 2018
You Know, Things Like That
Catherine Spencer reviews Helen de Main’s collaborative exhibition at Platform, Glasgow, 26 November 2017 - 11 February 2018
Wake up and the world is different
Anna McLauchlan drinks in The Last Hour!, a project curated by Timothea Armour, the fifth and final commission in Collective’s Satellites programme
Spectres of the Deep
Mother Tongue review John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea at Talbot Rice Gallery, 21 October 2017 - 27 January 2018
Wanderlust
Dominik Czechowski reviews Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017 at UB Art Galleries, New York, 7 September - 31 December 2017, touring to the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 17 February - 13 May 2018
Choreography Concept for Untrained Amateurs
Gordon Douglas responds to a work by performance group, contact Gonzo, at BUoY, Tokyo, 28 - 29 October 2017
AVAILABLE FONTS
Phoebe Blatton reviews Lucy Skaer at KW, Berlin, 13 October 2017 - 7 January 2018
so you see me
Lucy Weir reviews Ulay: so you see me, a solo exhibition at Cooper Gallery, Dundee, 27 October - 16 December
Cities of Joy
Anna Tudos reviews OFF Biennale, Budapest, 29 September – 5 November, 2017
Lilt, Twang, Tremor
Ruth Barker reviews Sarah Rose, Susannah Stark and Hanna Tuulikki at CCA, 18 November 2017 - 14 January 2018
You Are Not Alone
Calum Sutherland reviews NOW featuring Susan Philipsz, Michael Armitage, Yto Barrada, Kate Davis, Hiwa K and Sarah Rose, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 28 October 2017 - 18 February 2018
INTERSTICES
Rachael Finney reviews ‘Interstices’ by Terre Thaemlitz at Auto Italia, 3 October - 3 December
Asymmetrical Response
Philomena Epps reviews a collaborative exhibition by Cory Arcangel and Olia Lialina at Art Projects Ibiza, 20 June - 16 December 2017
Turner Prize 2017
Jay Drinkall visits this year’s Turner Prize exhibition at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 26 September 2017 – 7 January 2018
This Little Art
Sohini Basak reviews This Little Art by Kate Briggs, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017
Circumstantial Evidence
Kirsty Hendry responds to ‘Every contact leaves a trace’ curated by Naomi Pearce, a LUX screening at Glasgow Film Theatre, 1 October
This Drove My Mother Up The Wall
Susan Finlay reviews Katharina Grosse at South London Gallery, 28 September - 3 December
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
The Weather Makers
Calum Sutherland reviews ‘The Weather Makers’ by Kelly Richardson at Dundee Contemporary Arts, 23 September - 26 November
‘This isn’t a body!’
Jane Hartshorn’s ekphrastic response to ‘NOW’ by Chantal Akerman at Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, September 14 - October 21
a woman is our happy issue
Nisha Ramayya on ‘Some Context’, Hannah Black’s solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, 22 September - 10 December
By Likeness
Lila Matsumoto’s ekphrastic response to ‘Artificial Sensibility’ by It’s Our Playground at Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, 22 September - 27 October
Dear We Have Been
Anthony Autumn responds to ‘Barricadia’ by Sahej Rahal at CCA, 16 September - 29 October
Nests
Mike Saunders on ‘Natural Selection’ by Andy Holden and Peter Holden, at Former Newington Library, London 10 September - 5 November
My Favourite Sister’s Uncle
Colin Herd responds to an exhibition by Charlie Billingham and Zin Taylor at Independent Régence Brussels, 7 September - 7 October
Showstoppers
Calum Gardner responds to ‘Showstoppers - Silver Centrepieces’ at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 13 May - 15 October
Unrequited Thing
Isabel Galleymore responds to ‘Pleasure is a Weapon’ by Susie Green at Grand Union, Birmingham, 1 September - 18 November
May all of your dreams come true
Anna McLauchlan experiences Ross Little’s ‘The Heavy of Your Body Parts and The Cool Air of the Air Condition’, the fourth commission in Collective’s Satellites programme
The Craft
Rebecca Bligh visits Monira Al Qadiri’s solo exhibition at Gasworks, 13 July - 10 September
Inner Other
Henry Broome visits ‘Inner Other’, a group show at Gossamer Fog, London, 29 July - 25 August
To Those in Search of Immunity
Last in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Gordon Douglas takes the latest of Collective’s ‘Oberservers’ Walks’ by Patrick Staff, engaging with Calton Hill’s botanical, queer and historical entanglements 27 July - 27 August
With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods
Fourth in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Jessica Ramm reflects on Shannon Te Ao’s installation in Gladstone Court, 27 July - 27 August
Plant Scenery of the World
Third in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Catriona Gallagher visits Inverleith House’s new exhibition ‘Plant Scenery of the World’ 27 July - 29 October
Nudes Never Wear Glasses
First in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Victoria Horne reviews Kate Davis’ solo exhibition at Stills 28 July - 8 October
The Muck of Language
Second in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Tessa Berring offers reflections on ‘You hardboiled I softboiled’ at Rhubaba Gallery and Studios, featuring contributions from Jessica Yu, Sam Riviere, Valerie Norris, Rosalind Nashashibi, Masha Tupitsyn and Claire Walsh, 28 July - 27 August
Learning from Athens
Grace Higgins Brown reviews documenta 14, Athens, 8 April - 16 July
Notes from Venice
Claire Walsh offers notes from the Venice Biennale ‘Viva Arte Viva’ 13 May - 26 November
Every contact leaves a trace
Anna McLauchlan encourages Adam Lewis Jacob’s ‘Emotional Need’, featuring works by anarchist Donald Rooum, the third commission in Collective’s Satellites programme
Fort! Da! notes toward an editorial
Daisy Lafarge introduces a new season of reviews
Into the Unknown
Rebecca Bligh reviews Into the Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction, Barbican’s summer exhibition, 3 June - 1 September
The Restless Image
Philomena Epps on Rose Finn-Kelcey: Life, Belief and Beyond at Modern Art Oxford, 15 July - 15 October
#39 - July 2017
Review
For Now / Six Propositions
Elizabeth Reeder responds to a series of performances by Siobhan Davies Dance company at Tramway
#39 - July 2017
Review
this scattering of minds; like seeds
Kirsty Hendry responds to a film screening and Q&A with artist Sulaïman Majali at Transmission Gallery
A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Eliel Jones reviews Arthur Jafa’s exhibition at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 8 June - 10 September
The particular in general
Anna McLauchlan preserves Alex Impey’s ←Term.←Lam.←, the second commission in Collective’s Satellites programme
Diane Torr 1948-2017
Giles Bailey offers a personal tribute to interdisciplinary artist, inspirational teacher and drag king, Diane Torr
#39 - June 2017
Review
Writing in Absence
Anna McLauchlan visits ‘Ours’ [1], curated by Grace Johnston, the first of five commissions in Collective’s Satellites programme
Conflict Materials
Tom White reviews Conflict Minerals: Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway / Nabil Ahmed, at Arts Catalyst Centre for Art, Science and Technology, 24 March-22 April, 2017
Observing Women at Work: Franki Raffles
Catherine Spencer reviews ’Observing Women at Work: Franki Raffles’, at the Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 4 March-27 April 2017
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
Materiality cut two ways
Kamini Vellodi reviews the two artist installation, A New Order, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Once you cut off your braid, where do you reattach it?
Tereza Hrušková reviews the exhibition ’33 – ’29 – ’36 at UM Gallery, Prague, until 25 February
O.K. Rick [Review]
Jenny Brownrigg responds to the Florrie James work screened in February at the Glasgow Film Festival.
CROSS BLOCK SPLIT
Jenny Brownrigg reflects on the career of artist Mary Redmond and her installation at Platform, Glasgow for the national exhibition series, GENERATION 25
Emerging: Iman Issa
Aoife Rosenmeyer discovers renovation and rejuvenation in the work of this Egyptian artist
Activity: Edited by Pedro Barateiro, Christoph Keller, Ricardo Valentim
JRP Ringier/Christoph Keller Editions, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-03764-161-3
Artists’ Magazines by Gwen Allen
The MIT Press, £25.95, ISBN 978-0-262-01519-6
#24 - November 2010
Review
Books: Katinka Bock
Sabeth Buchmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Kim West, Paraguay Press, Paris, 2010, £22, ISBN 978-2-918252-03-0
#24 - November 2010
Review
Show and Tell—A Chronicle of Group Material
Edited by Julie Ault, Four Corners, 2010, £22.50, ISBN-13: 978-0956192813
#24 - November 2010
Review
Elizabeth McAlpine
26 October–20 November, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet
23 October–9 January, various venues, Nottingham
#24 - November 2010
Review
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980
11 September–28 November, University of Toronto Art Galleries
#24 - November 2010
Review
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
31 October–6 February, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
#24 - November 2010
Review
Focus: 29th São Paulo Biennial
“There is always a cup of sea to sail in” 25 September–12 December, various venues
#24 - November 2010
Review
The Portable John Latham
Edited by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios, Occasional Papers in association with Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2010, £12.50, ISBN 978-0-9562605-5-0
Ashes and broken brickwork of a logical theory
Susanne Kriemann, Roma Publications, 2010, £14, ISBN: 978-90-77459-44-7
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
David Toop, Continuum, 2010, £17.99, ISBN: 978-1441149725
Dynasty
11 June–5 September 2010, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Long Dark
17 July–19 September 2010, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
David Hominal
11 June–15 August 2010, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
#23 Autumn - September 2010
Review
The Potosí Principle
12 May–6 September 2010, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Lila de Magalhaes and Michael White
31 July–21 August 2010, SWG3, Glasgow
Gert and Uwe Tobias
17 July–3 October 2010, Nottingham Contemporary
Focus: 6th Berlin Biennale For Contemporary Art
11 June–8 August, 2010, Various venues
Focus: Edinburgh Art Festival
29 July–various dates from end September 2010, various venues
Perpetual Inventory Rosalind E Krauss
MIT Press, 2010, ISBN 0-262-01380-0, £22.95
The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making January 2010 Volume 1
Ed Jens Hoffmann Archive Books, €10
Moving Images from the Attic Archive
19 March–18 April, 2010, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Ryan Trecartin, Sharon Lockhart, Peter Campus, Joachim Koester
26 March–24 May, 2010, The Power Plant, Toronto
Michael Smith
16 January–20, 2010, February Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
David Burton, Ruth Ewan, Brian Moran
27 March–8 May, 2010, Rob Tufnell at 1 Sutton Lane
Dundee: Moving Images from the Attic Archive
19 March–18 April, 2010, Cooper Gallery
Richard Foreman: Idiot Savant, The Public Theater
27 October–20 December, 2009, New York
Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World
28 October–1 November, various venues, Berlin
Season in Hell
Arthur Rimbaud with Patti Smith and Robert Mappelthorpe Mörel Books, 2009, £20
Support Structures
Ed Céline Condorelli, Sternberg Press, 2009, £23, ISBN 978-1-933128-45-0,
Andreas Bunte
7 November–9 December, 2009, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Sur le dandysme aujourd’hui
15 January–21 March, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Allan Sekula
12 December 2009–28 February 2010, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Non-solo show, Non-group show
28 November 2009–31 January 2010, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
13 November–20 December, 2009, Extra City, Antwerp
Stephen Willats
14 November 2009–16 January 2010, Balice Hertling, Paris
Unresolved
4 December 2009–31 January, 2010, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
#21 Spring - March 2010
Review
Urban Stories: The X Baltic Triennial of International Art
25 September–22 November 2009, Various venues, Vilnius
#21 Spring - March 2010
Review
Darren Banks and Oonagh Hegarty
17 January–28 February 2010, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh
#21 Spring - March 2010
Review
Mircea Cantor
14 November 2009–23 January 2010, The Common Guild, Glasgow
#21 Spring - March 2010
Review
Live Film! Jack Smith! Five flaming days in a rented world!
Berlin 28 October–1 November Various venues
Rewind + Play: An Anthology of Early British Video Art
LUX, DVD, 2009, £30
Artists with PhDs
Edited by James Elkins, New Academia Press, 2009, £17, ISBN 978-0-98 18654-5-4
Alejandro Cesarco
19 September–31 October, 2009, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion
15 September–6 December, 2009 Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Mathilde ter Heijne
20 September–8 November, 2009, SMBA, Amsterdam
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was
17 September–25 October, 2009, The Drawing Room, London
Head-Wig (Portrait of an exhibition)
25 September–29 November, 2009, Camden Arts Centre, London
The Enlightenments
Various dates, August–October, 2009, Various venues, Edinburgh
Generosity is the New Political
5 September–1 November, 2009, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Dance With Camera
11 September 2009–21 March 2010, ICA, Philadelphia
Static Cinema
29 September–10 October, 2009, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976
19 July–5 October, MoMA, 2009, New York
Bergen Biennial Conference
17–20 September, 2009, Bergen Kunsthall
Scorpio’s Garden
12 October–15 November, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Bart Wells Institute, Eds: Luke Gottelier & Francis Upritchard
Dent-De-Leone, 2009, £15, ISBN: 978–0-9561885–2–6
Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory
Phaidon Press/New Museum, 2009, £25, ISBN 978-0-7148498-1-2
Sarah Anne Johnson
4 July– 23 August, 2009, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Selected works from a private collection: Thomas Kinkade
3 July–11 July, 2009, Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich
Bill Viola
19 June–5 September, 2009, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
Simon Starling
13 December 2008–31 October, 2010, Sol LeWitt through 2033 MASS MoCA, Boston
Silke Otto-Knapp
4 July–13 September, 2009, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
EASTinternational
13 July–22 August, 2009, Various Venues, Norwich
Christopher Orr
24 May–1 August, 2009, IBID PROJECTS/Hoxton Square, London
2nd Athens Biennale 2009
15 June–4 October, 2009, Various Venues, Athens
Throbbing Gristle/Cerith Wyn Evans
17 June 2009, Tramway, Glasgow
On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton
£25.95, ISBN 978-0-262-06276-3 http://mitpress.mit.edu
Novel - Issue One: Edited by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams
ISBN 978-1- 906424-07-7, www.novelpublication.org
Living Together
23 January–3 May, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria
Between Earth & Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
20 March—26 July, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
Claire Barclay
7 February–12 April, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
The International Necronautical Society (INS) 17 January
17 January, Tate Britain, London
Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets
Editors: Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, 2008
Gest: Laboratory of Synthesis #1
Edited by Robert Garnett and Andrew Hunt, 2008
Andro Wekua
5 December 2008–8 February 2009, Camden Arts Centre, London
Graham Little
21 November–19 December, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Expanded Cinema: The Live Record
6 December 2008, BFI Southbank, London
Charlie Hammond
6 November–20 December, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
Reduced Construction
28 November 20081–8 January 2009, Karma International, Zürich
Langlands & Bell
25 October–13 December, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
theanyspacewhatever
24 October 2008–7 January 2009, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Matthieu Laurette
1 January–31 December, 2008 Blow de la Barra, London
Elmgreen & Dragset
12 October–15 November, 2008, Victoria Miro Gallery / Old Vic Theatre, London
Ryoji Ikeda, Nuit Blanche 4/5 October, Tour Montparnasse
11 October 2008–12 January 2009 Le Laboratoire, Paris
William Hunt
13 September–31 October, 2008, Witte de With Rotterdam, Rotterdam
upArt Contemporary Art Fair
2–5 October 2008, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Conversations
27 September–16 November, 2008, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Diango Hernández
6 September–25 October, 2008, Barbara Thumm, Berlin
David Bellingham
13 September–14 October, 2008, The Changing Room, Stirling
Sterling Ruby
9 October–15 November, 2008, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, London
Alex Pollard
11 October–2 November, 2008, Whitechapel Project Space, London
Karla Black: Mistakes Made Away From Home
£17 ISBN: 978-0-9560400-0-8 www.marymarygallery.co.uk
#16 Winter - November 2008
Review
On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, Binna Choi (eds.) £20 www.bak-utrecht.nl
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Elizabeth Grosz, £13, ISBN: 978-0-231-14518-3, www.cup.columbia.edu
Liverpool International 08: Made Up
20 September–30 November, 2008, Various venues, Liverpool
#15 Autumn - September 2008
Review
Mark Neville
11 May — 30 September 2008, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute
Communication Suite
8 July–1 August 2008, Wolfson Building, Glasgow University, Glasgow
Lothar Hempel
30 May–21 June 2008, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Chantal Akerman
11 July–14 September 2008, Camden Arts Centre, London
The Great Transformation—Art and Tactical Magic
7 June–7 September 2008, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Aïda Ruilova
2 May–14 June 2008, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Books: All of a Sudden: Things that Matter in Contemporary Art
Jörg Heiser www.sternbergpress.com ISBN 978-1-933128-39-9
Books: Art Power
Boris Groys mitpress.mit.edu ISBN 978-0-262-07292-2
Books: The Sun, the Moon & Everything In Between
Emmett Walsh Hydra Press (edition of 50)
Music: Paul Rooney
31 May–12 July 2008, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Music: 17
Bill Drummond www.beautiful-books.co.uk ISBN 9781905636266
The Hidden / Lars Laumann
19 January–24 February 2008, Maureen Paley, London
#14 Summer - June 2008
Review
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
6 March—18 May 2008, Barbican, London
Raymond Pettibon
15 March–26 April 2008, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Cathy Wilkes
16 April–8 June 2008, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
Claire Barclay / Neil Clements / Sally Osborn / Jonathan Owen / Sara Barker / Albrecht Schäfer
15 February–26 April 2008, doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Books: Video: The Reflexive Medium
Yvonne Spielmann www.mitpress.mit.ed ISBN: 978-0-262-19566-9
Music: Melanie Gilligan: Prison for Objects
10 April–10 May 2008, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Wilhelm Sasnal: The Other Church
11–27 April 2008, 66-68 Osborne Street, Glasgow
Whitney Biennial 2008 / Judy Chicago
6 March–1 June 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art / Long-term installation, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Broadcast Yourself
28 February–5 April 2008, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
Music: Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories
Alan Licht www.rizzoliusa.com ISBN: 978-0847829699 £25
Focus: Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century / Lawrence Weiner
1 December 2007–30 March 2008, New Museum, New York/15 November 2007–10 February 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
#13 Spring - March 2008
Review
Thomas Houseago
24 November 2007–5 January 2008, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Thomas Zipp
16 November 2007–13 January 2008, South London Gallery, London
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring
7 December 2007–10 February 2008, Camden Arts Centre, London
Carol Rhodes
1 December 2007–24 February 2008, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Phillip Lai
10 November 2007–15 January 2008, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
Ulla von Brandenburg
18 January–24 February 2008, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Rosa Barba
18 November 2007–6 January 2008, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
Gabriel Kuri
17 November 2007–26 January 2008, Esther Schipper, Berlin
Live Undead
29 January–23 February 2008, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Luke Fowler & Charlie Hammond
19–24 January 2008, Buccleuch Street, Glasgow
Books & Film: The Mousetrap Book: On Dealing With Art Institutions In Contemporary Curatorial Practice
Edited by Aneta Szylak and Andrzej Szczerski www.wyspa.netstrefa.pl www.revolver-books.de ISBN: 978-83-924665-1-2 £30
Music: Die Tödliche Doris: Soundless Music
28 November 2007–9 February 2008, alt. gallery, Newcastle
Mike Kelley
29 September–22 December 2007, Jablonka Gallery, Berlin
Re: [Video Positive] Archiving Video Positively
31 August–4 November 2007, FACT, Liverpool
Books: Scott Myles
Edited by Beatrix Ruf www.jrp-ringier.com ISBN 978-3-905701-63-0 £17
Books: Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century
Gerald Raunig www.semiotexte.com ISBN 978-1-58435-046-0 £11.95
Music: Daniel Johnston: It’s A Beautiful Life
5 September–10 November 2007, alt.gallery, Newcastle
Music: Re-make/Re-model
Michael Bracewell www.faber.co.uk ISBN 978-0-571-22985-7 £20
Music: EXTRACT: Portraits Of Sound Artists
www.nonvisualobjects.com £21
#12 Winter - November 2007
Review
Music: Sighs Trapped By Liars (new album from Red Krayola)
The Red Krayola with Art & Language www.dragcity.com £10
Robert Orchardson & Sarah Tripp
29 September–28 October 2007, Generator Projects, Dundee
Alas Nature / Roni Horn / My Oz, Iceland National Gallery
20 July–21 October 2007, National Gallery of Iceland / Long-term installation, Library of Water, Stykkisholmur / 11 May–19 August 2007, Reykjavik Art Museum
A North Light ~ Cynosure, Pier Arts Center
7 July–10 November 2007, Pier Art Centre, Orkney
Stan Douglas
15 September 2007–6 January 2008, Staatsgalerie & Wurttembergischer Kunstverine, Stuttgart
Matthew Barney
20 September–11 November 2007, Serpentine Gallery, London
Louise Bourgeois
10 October 2007–20 January 2008, Tate Modern, London
David Lamelas
6–29 September 2007, Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, London
Michael Fullerton
10 October–8 December 2007, Carl Freedman Gallery, London
Effigies
7 September–4 October 2007, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Jock McFadyen
10 August–2 September 2007, The Grey Gallery, Edinburgh
#12 Winter - November 2007
Review
William Eggleston
28 July–14 October 2007, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Rosalind Nashashibi: Bachelor Machines
Part 1, Scotland and Venice, 10 June–2 November 2007, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice Part 2, Art Statements, 4–8 June 2007, Art Basel
You Have Not Been Honest
24 May–1 October 2007, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples
Martin Creed
4 May–29 July 2007, Hauser & Wirth, Coppermill, London
Books: between two deaths
Edited by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin www.hatjecantz.de English Edition ISBN 978-3-775-2003-8 £24.99
Books: Let Me Show You Some Things
Sarah Tripp www.thelighthouse.co.uk £10
Books: Taking The Matter Into Common Hands: Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices
Edited by Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson www.blackdogonline.com £19.95
Books: After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art
Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princnthal, Sue Scott www.prestel.com ISBN 978-3-7913-3732-6 £25
Music: Shadowed Spaces
6–15 July 2007, various venues around Scotland
Music: Mount Vernon Arts Lab - The Seance At Hobs Lane
www.ghostbox.co.uk £10.95
FOCUS: 52nd Venice Biennale—Reflections
10 June–21 November 2007, Venice
Gillian Wearing
24 March–10 June 2007, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Amsterdam
Morag Keil, 3 March–14 April, Grimm Fine Art 14 / Lucy Stein, 3 March–14 April, Galerie Martin van Zomeren / Sue Tompkins, 3 March–7 April, Galerie Diana Stigter
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle
16 January–31 March 2007, Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin
27 January–17 March 2007, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Marc Bijl, Gerard Byrne, Valerie Jouve
21 April–23 June 2007, Aliceday, Brussels
Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins
3 February–25 March 2007, Spike Island, Bristol
Ross Sinclair versus Sir Edwin Landseer
13 January–9 April 2007, Aberdeen Art Gallery
Books: 40 Years Videoart.de
PART1: Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany 1963 to the present Rudolf Frieling/Wulf Herzogenrath www.hatjecantz.de English edition ISBN 978-3-77571-717-5 £24.95
Books: Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie ( 1967-1978)
Jean Baudrillard www.semiotexte.com ISBN 978-1-58435-033-0 £11.95
Books: Kara Walker: My Compliment, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Edited by Michelle Piranio www.Hatjecantze.com ISBN 978-3-7757-1932-239
Books: documenta 12 magazine No. 1: Modernity?
Georg Schöllhammer, Roger M Buergel, Ruth Noack www.taschen.com ISBN 978-3-8228-1532-8 German/English £10
The Story of Art
Ernst Gombrich, Phaidon Pocket Edition, reprint 2006, £12.95
Jonathan Monk
8 December 2006–18 February 2007, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / 29 November 2006 –20 January 2007, Lisson Gallery, London
Matthew Barney / Joseph Beuys
28 October 2006–12 January 2007, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Lisa Yuskavage
18 October–18 November 2006, David Zwirner/Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Christine Borland
2 December 2006–28 January 2007, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Maurice Doherty, Mick Peter, Owen Piper, David Sherry
4 November–2 December 2006, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Charles Avery, Charles Avery/ Keith Wilson
9 Ocotber–3 December 2006, Cubitt, London / 2 November–16 December 2006, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London
Argos, Wiels and a new bienniale for 2007
Brussels: Argos, Wiels and a new bienniale for 2007
Douglas Gordon
2 November 2006–14 January 2007, Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh
Absent without leave—Second Young Artists Biennial
12 October–16 November 2006, Bratianu Palace, Bucharest
The Four
19 August–23 September 2006, Collins Galery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Killing Time
9 September–5 November 2006, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Neal Tait: Now is the Discount of our Winter Tents
15 September–21 October 2006, White Cube, London
Kenny Hunter
29 July–5 November 2006, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
How to Live Together
7 October–17 December 2006, 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Callum Innes
30 September–19 November 2006, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Chris Burden
15 September–5 November 2006, South London Gallery and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Books: Arcade: Artists and Place-making
Edited by Rhona Warwick, Black Dog Publishing, £19.95
Books: Bread / Take Me With You
Bread, Kate Davis, Sorcha Dallas, Take Me With You, Gary Rough, Sorcha Dallas
Jacqueline Donachie and Darren Monckton: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
HUNTERIAN MUSEUM 9 JUN–2 SEP, 2006, Glasgow
The Poets Still Throwing Up Their Hands
THE CHANGING ROOM 29 APR–10 JUN, 2006, Stirling
Marcel Dzama: Tree With Roots
IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM 24 MAY–16 JUL; CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, GLASGOW, 5 AUG–16 SEP, 2006
Seamus Harahan/Bedwyr Williams/ Margaret Salmon
COLLECTIVE GALLERY 10 JUN–22 JUL, 2006, Edinburgh
Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE 23 APR EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19/20 AUG, 2006, Cannes
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
Edited by IRWIN AFTERALL BOOKS, 2006, £24.95
Siren
Chris Watson BOOKSCAPES, 2006, £9.95 dp003: converse without leaving home Various contributors DISCPARC, DCA, 2006, £4
ANNIE LENNOX
The Eurythmics singer, who was recently honoured by both Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, reveals her artistic passions
Dada’s Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art
27 May–16 July 2006, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
The 17: Bill Drummond
22 April–20 May 2006, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
Berlin & Bucharest
25 March–5 June 2006, 4th Berlin Biennale 26 May–27 June 2006, 2nd Bucharest Biennale
Roni Horn
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 21 January–26 March and Museion, Bolzano 4 February–30 April 2006
Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Barbican, London, 16 February–21 May 2006
Books: Lost in Space
By Andrew Dodds and published by Book Works Chap Series, 2006
#6 - April 2006
Review
Books: Black Box/Chambre Noire
Catalogue for William Kentridge exhibition, published by Deutsche Guggenheim, 2006
Books: Ron Mueck
By Robert Rosenblum, published by Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, 2006
End of Time: Hiroshi Sugimoto
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 17 September 2005–9 January 2006
Selective Memory: Scotland and Venice, and Echo Echo
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 8 December 2005–6 March 2006 and Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 8 December 2005–29 January 2006
Alan Smith: In Perpetuity
Ikon Gallery, London, 23 November 2005–22 January 2006
Claire Barclay: Silver Gilt
Stepehn Friedman Gallery, London, 20 October–19 November 2005
Jessica Stockholder
Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense 23 September 2005–5 February 2006
Elizabeth Ogilvie: Bodies of Water
DCA, Dundee, 16 December 2005-12 February 2006
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
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Published by Phaidon, 2005, ISBN 0714845450
#4 - December 2005
Review
Roderick Buchanan
Camden Arts Centre, London 23 September-13 November, 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review
Edinburgh Art Festival and Annuale 2005
Various venues citywide during August 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review
Beijing Biennale
Biennale and other events citywide during September and October 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review
Mark Dion
South London Gallery, London 9 September-30 October; Firstsite, Colchester 5 November-10 December; The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston 12 January-14 March, 2006
#4 - December 2005
Review
James Lumsden and Andrew MacKenzie
Sarah Myerscough, London 30 September-29 October 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review
Robert Smithson
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 22 June-16 October
#4 - December 2005
Review
Keith Farquhar
NYEHaus, New York 15 September-5 November and Inverleith House, Edinburgh 6 November 2005-6 January, 2006
#4 - December 2005
Review
Jim Lambie—Byrds
The Modern Institute, Glasgow 7 October-11 November, 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: The Book of David Shrigley
Published by Redstone Press, October 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: Wolfgang Tillmans truth study center
Published by Taschen, October 2005
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: Kate Davis: Partners and Hanneline Visnes: Afterwards, in the blank wood
Published respectively by Sorcha Dallas, October 2005 and Centre for Contemporary Arts, October 2005
Portfolio: A Question of Degrees
Four artists, themselves graduates of Scotland’s art colleges, select work from the 2005 degree shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee—for art’s sake. Photography by recent graduates
There Where You Are Not
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 31 May–9 July 2005
Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 4 June–4 September, 2005
Double Vision
Timespan Gallery and Museum, Helmsdale 4-30 June and Australian Galleries, Collingwood 8-31 July, 2005
History of Disappearance—Live Art From New York 1975–Present
Baltic, 18 June-4 September, 2005
Books: Neal Beggs MoveSideWays
Essays by Huitorel, McLaren & Wright, published by Isthme éditions, 2004
Books: With the Grain, An Appreciation of Tim Stead
Edited by Giles Sutherland, published by Berlinn, 2005
Books: Saint Etienne and Ry Cooder
Neil Cooper reviews two volumes—Saint Etienne, Tales From Turnpike House published by Sanctuary and Ry Cooder by Chavez Ravine published by Nonesuch/Perro Verde
Books: High Noon
Monograph of the work of Simon Patterson, published by the Fruitmarket and IKON, 2005
Books: John Bellany
A monograph by John McEwen, published by Mainstream Publishing, April 2005
Books: Ideas Leave Objects Standing
An artist book by David Bellingham, published by Platform Projects, Baltic, 2005
Books: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
By Charles Jencks, published by Frances Lincoln, March 2005
Laurie Anderson
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 17 February-2 May and Queens Hall, Edinburgh, 29 April
Lorna Macintyre, Clare Stephenson and Jane Topping
Generator Projects, Dundee, 24 April-8 May
The Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands
Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh, 14 April-10 July
#1 - February 2005
Review
Mexican Lights
Moira Jeffrey travels to Monterrey and discovers bright lights at Sodium and Asphalt, a major showing of 12 British artists in Mexico
Books: You Are Here
Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Edited by Katharine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
Swiss-Swiss Democracy, Thomas Hirschhorn
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 4 Dec 2004-30 Jan 2005
Andy Warhol: Self Portraits
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 12 Feb-2 May 2005