Issues / #11 Autumn 2007
John Latham: Incidental Person
Craig Richardson opens up an important legacy left by the late John Latham, the influential conceptual artist. The nature of West Lothian’s oil shale bings, whether art, monument or heritage, are a reminder of his continuing, pothumous role in current environmental and aesthetic debates
Monika Sosnowska
Using unexpected perspectives, this Polish artist alters spaces with her sometimes monumental sculpture. Moira Jeffrey, who has long been interested in her work, talks to here post ‘1:1’
Victor Man: Plural Solitude
Alessandro Rabottini discovers a quiet but resolute multiple voice in the painted and sculpted installation work of Romanian artist Victor Man
Tony Swain: Concrete Planes
Isla Leaver-Yap visits Tony Swain’s studio in Glasgow and finds him among stacks of yellowing newsprint reworking 20th century techniques towards uncharted landscapes
Report: What is ‘Public’ in Public Art?
Christophe Gallois on the Site-Specific
Emerging: Laura Aldridge
Francis McKee looks at the work of Laura Aldridge
Residency: Words and Sculpture (Huntley)
Duncan McLaren visits Huntley and finds a festival of art and words
#11 Autumn - September 2007
Commission: Donald Urquhart
The artist known for his party attitude and black and white style, Donald Urquhart brings FOUR WOMEN out of his personal archive and creates a set of drawings, with accompanying text, especially for this issue of MAP
Interview: Simon Fisher Turner
This composer/musician recently performed at Tramway, Glasgow, inside a life-size recreation of Elvis Presley’s former home, Gracelands. Nominated for an Oscar (Anna Campion’s feature, Loaded), his most recent album, Lana Lara Lata, is out on Mute Records
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