Issues / #56 Staying Close
Mardi Barrie and her transpositional quest
‘It is not women’s inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.’ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949. Lauren Dyer Amazeen is drawn to the work of this Edinburgh artist
she didn’t paint the sea, after Joan Eardley
by Daisy Lafarge
Introduction
Susannah Thompson and Marianne Greated introduce a MAP mini series, part of their recently launched, ongoing project Women Painting: Scottish Art 1940-1980
TENANCY May Day Parade: Clause iv
Shirking on Rented Space-Time by Nisha Ramayya
TENANCY May Day Parade: Clause ii
terra firma/terra infirma by Lola Olufemi
Some Proximity
Text meets the linguistically ambiguous moving body in Jonathan P. Watts’ reflection on his working relationship with dance artist Adam Linder, the space of criticism and the choreography of contemporary art spaces
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
Seizing the means of projection
Marcus Jack considers thirty years of artists’ moving image exhibition in Glasgow
Gay Bond
A film by Lauren La Rose: an estranged father asks his daughter to help him make a homoerotic action movie. The resulting film, which includes interviews with family and former lovers, touches on issues of identity, immigration and social justice. In this special presentation MAP screens Gay Bond online and interviews the artist
Light Translations
Rebecca Wilcox listens in and responds to ‘Stolen Voices Album Launch’ by Johanna Linsley & Rebecca Louise Collins, CCA, Glasgow
Doing It (All) Yourself
Claire Biddles reflects on connections between art and music in Glasgow
Tongues
MAP screens a new film by Màiri Lafferty, alongside ‘Polyphonic Repentance’, a text by Holly Yeoman
Text for a willow
A willow was planted by the River Deveron, in the centre of a solid wood circular bench, near Huntly Aberdeenshire, 31 January 2020. Alice Bain reports from a distance
MOTHER-SHIP
Rose Higham-Stainton attends the launch of MOTHER by Studio Morison at Wicken Fen 29th February 2020
TENANCY
‘What is a tenancy agreement?’ MAP’s guest commissioning editor Helen Charman begins a new project which invites writers and artists to join her investigation into the nature of renting. Pieces will be published on the 1st of every month for 12 months, beginning here, on April Fool’s day.
STAY AT HOME MOVIES
Herb Shellenberger guides us through a selection of moving-image works newly available for remote viewing
A Maggot - For Freda
Kirsty Hendry considers ‘the flimsy layer that separates one body from another’, as we re-publish her 2018 essay
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