Issues / #67 the wind rose
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
action-thrill-service-shows
Some concluding thoughts from Rosie Roberts on commissioning writing that responds to Elizabeth Price’s SLOW DANS, and unpacking the image of the ‘blockbuster’
Floods
Artist and writer Rosie O’Grady responds to Elizabeth Price’s SLOW DANS. Part of a short series commissioned for MAP by Rosie Roberts
Waiting to get into Prada Marfa, listening to crickets in the plains
Composer Ailie Ormston reflects on genre tropes, real and imagined architecture, and the use of local and global aural space in SLOW DANS. Part of a short series commissioned by Rosie Roberts for MAP
ONNE BIGG WETT GRID
‘An emoji-like hard drive sits, light pulsing.’ Filmmaker Rachel McBrinn views the work in Elizabeth Price’s major exhibition SLOW DANS. Part of a short series commissioned for MAP by Rosie Roberts
hardware now, software later
Rosie Roberts introduces a short series commissioned for MAP. Three artists respond to Elizabeth Prices’ SLOW DANS at GoMA, Glasgow
Are you going my way?
Rachel McBrinn’s new film screened on MAP online until 18 May, 2023
Winding Up Body
An extract from Rachel McBrinn’s Winding Up Body which was published on 17 April alongside the launch of her film Are you going my way? Both focus on Livingston New Town and its inhabitants
Space left over after planning
Alison Scott introduces Rachel McBrinn’s film Are you going my way? and publication Winding Up Body, works that have emerged from a research-led residency with Rhubaba
SALT: book launch and exhibition
A new publication by Art Walk Press brings together texts and images from the year long project SALT, including those commissioned by Art Walk Projects in collaboration with MAP. The book is available throughout the exhibition Salt Works until 30 March
What kind of listener are you?
As she savours the weekend screenings of the 18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Ane Lopez finds time to chat to filmmaker Deborah Stratman and associate festival programmer Ilinca Vânău, about Stratman’s latest odyssey, Last Things
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
We will all be marine mammals soon
by Rowan Lear. The final artist text commissioned by SALT in collaboration with MAP
The sound of my voice will haunt you: A Call to Gossip
The second text by Sarah Long, recipient of this year’s John Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing, presented by The Glasgow School of Art in association with MAP
I had a dream last night: Politics and Repetition
Sarah Long publishes two texts this month. Sarah is the recipient of this year’s John Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing, presented by The Glasgow School of Art in association with MAP