Issues / #58 SHIFTING HOSTS, ORBITAL MOONS
WRITINGS BETWEEN
Vulnerability and Resistance: the third and final part of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality
WRITINGS BETWEEN
Bodies of Knowledge: Part two of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality
Writings between
Taking Time: Part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality
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
Poetry at Large: The poetic and archival practice of Paula Claire
Greg Thomas reviews the artist’s publications ‘Paula Claire, fromWORDtoART: Browsing the Paula Claire Archive; International PoetArtists’ and ‘WordsWorkWonders’
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
The desktop: a place where writing happens
Rebecca Gill scrolls through the desktop’s pleasantly tenuous invasive implications and the intimacy of the gaze
TOP LODGE
A new film by Debi Banerjee, accompanied by a response from her collaborator Morwenna Kearsley. ‘Top Lodge’ invites viewers to join an exuberant game of free movement and doubling, of time, creation, preservation and destruction.
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
Part 5: The Self-Illuminating Pen
Sarah Tripp concludes her letter series with: Dear Alice. ‘This is a story about what I let go of and what I took hold of.’
Demystification Through Participation
Theo Carnegy-Tan considers Ruth Beale’s call to engage, belong, and re-common the commons
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
Part 4: The Self-Illuminating Pen
With. The penultimate letter in this series by Sarah Tripp. ‘I don’t play a person or a wooden bee.’
TENANCY Part 5: on recipes i
a project in two parts from Rebecca May Johnson
TENANCY Part 5: on recipes ii
orchestrated by Rebecca May Johnson, Edwina Attlee, Jen Calleja, Huw Lemmey, Nina Mingya Powles and Rebecca Tamás make Reiz Kugel
YOU KNOW IT BUT IT DON’T KNOW YOU
After TAKO TAAL: a 5 poem series by Alycia Pirmohamed
‘Some things–by which I mean everything’
Timothea Armour takes a look at Heather Phillipson’s first monograph, published by Prestel, July 2020
Part 3: The Self-Illuminating Pen
Sarah Tripp’s letter series continues with The Glue Ear. ‘For a long time my ears were nobody’s concern.’
Revisiting ‘Dancing With Myself’
Ahead of presenting new work by Debi Banerjee as part of the current programming strand ‘Through Motion’, we take a moment to look back at Debi’s project ‘Dancing With Myself’ in the MAP archive
Part 2: The Self-Illuminating Pen
The-Here-and-Now-Word. ‘What turns out to be astonishing is the way this pen illuminates one word at a time.’ Sarah Tripp continues to write deep into the dark.
A PLACE FOR 4 WOMEN, #4 COLD MOON
The final part of a four part poetic response by Valerie Norris to ‘The Bitter Cup’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
BELLA
Hannah James responds to a year in conversation with artist Rosie O’Grady
Part 1: The Self-Illuminating Pen by Sarah Tripp
Guitar and Balloon is the first in a 5 part series. Sarah Tripp shines light on words past midnight in her ‘letters to the editor’ alongside video representations in collaboration with Isobel Lutz-Smith. Free pamphlet available
farewell, Art: Imagining a Hospitable Planetary Future
Angeliki Roussou reflects on ‘farewell, Art’, a project by Bureau d’études commissioned by Rhubaba, Edinburgh
A PLACE FOR 4 WOMEN, #3 HARVEST MOON
The third in a four part poetic response by Valerie Norris to ‘The Bitter Cup’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Compositional Insurgencies
Sarah Messerschmidt shares thoughts on Shade Théret’s choreographic practice