Issues / #54 ‘...beneath high Libra’
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
Announcing three new MAP editors
Reviews Editor duo joined by Commissioning Editor
(Be)longing by Daniella Valz Gen
A poetic document on Valz Gen’s embodied landscape interventions which examine the act of burial as a way to reflect on the migrant body. This is the final invited contribution in response to the Penetrate: Translate series
Mini interview with Bhanu Kapil
Is psychosis particulate? Does it turn the air a light pink, a tint like yellow? Catalina Barroso-Luque asks writer Bhanu Kapil about psychosis, performance, public versus private. We are delighted to publish this short correspondence as part of Penetrate: Translate, a MAP reading group
Untitled
A new text by Dolores Dorantes. Translated by Catalina Barroso-Luque
Can Loneliness Perform a Politics?
‘To be alone. Together. To not brush the feeling of loneliness off. To not console. To not ask to be consoled. To not mask our difference… To not try to make the other one of us.’ Catalina Barroso-Luque reflects on her project Penetrate: Translate—an exercise in the political practice of being lonely together. Four texts celebrate the conclusion of the eponymous five session reading group
Meld / Blueprint
A selection of poems, taken from the publication by Judith Hagan, Jessica Higgins & Rebecca Wilcox, written in September 2019 at The Bower, Brunswick Park, Camberwell
Hanging Out
Artist Moving Image Festival, LUX Scotland at Tramway, Glasgow, 16/17 November 2019. Review by Cicely Farrer
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Final session. Pinochet Porn in Progress by Ellen Cantor. CCA Clubroom, Monday 9 December, 6.30pm
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Session Four. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil. CCA, Monday 25 November, 6.30pm
Healing Thoughts
William Kherbek reviews Honey-Suckle Company: Omnibus, ICA, London, 2 October 2019 to 12 January 2020
Penetrate: Translate reading group overview
A MAP reading group led and devised by Catalina Barroso-Luque, a Mexican artist living in Glasgow.
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