Issues / #17 Spring 2009
The Function of Objects
Steven Cairns considers the idea of containment in the spatially connected installation work of Phillip Lai
But to Go Back
Jenny Brownrigg looks at the meaning of monuments and memory in the work of Croatian artist David Maljkovic
Belief Systems
Alessandro Rabottini connects with the complex installations of Pietro Roccasalva, taking a mind-boggling journey through the many narratives of this artist’s work
Accelerator
Isla Leaver-Yap talks to Sebastian Buerkner in his studio about his animated films and new commission
Pundit & Poet
Rebecca Geldard peels back the layers of Raphael Danke’s collages and photographs to reveal surrealist connections and socio-political concerns
Back In To It
Darren Rhymes puts words together with new ‘Write Ups’ made for these pages by Sue Tompkins, an artist known for her performance and works on paper
#17 Spring - March 2009
Roundtable
MAP asked the following artists and organisers to contribute towards a debate on artist-run spaces in Glasgow and beyond
Residency: Jordan Baseman
Ilsa Colsell discovers power and honesty in the films of Jordan Baseman
Emerging: George Henry Longly
Oliver Basciano discovers a conversational psyche in this young artist’s work
Hayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary nature
Remarks: Artist Rooms
Senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Philip Long introduces the much-awaited ARTIST ROOMS, lauched 22 January and set to take contemporary art to unexpected places.
Remarks: Younger Than Jesus
Lauren Cornell, executive director, Rhizome and adjunct curator, New Museum, is co-curating the New Museum’s first triennial for emerging art.
Remarks: Tree
Tania Kovats discusses TREE, the project which won her the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Canopy Commission.
Remarks: Pavilion Unicredit
Eugen Radescu is co-director of Bucharest’s latest contemporary art venue, PAVILION UNICREDIT.
#17 Spring - March 2009
Remarks: Lighthouse Space
Janine Sproule introduces Sierra Metro, opened in October 2008 as a new, independent not-for-profit artist run space.
Remarks: 2HB
Louise Shelley announces a new publishing project for innovative creative art writing, to be launched by CCA, Glasgow, in March.
Back Page: ‘Brain 2’, 2009
An encoded broadcast on Channel 21, Citizen’s Band. A script by Nathaniel Mellors
The International Necronautical Society (INS) 17 January
17 January, Tate Britain, London
Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets
Editors: Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, 2008
Gest: Laboratory of Synthesis #1
Edited by Robert Garnett and Andrew Hunt, 2008
Andro Wekua
5 December 2008–8 February 2009, Camden Arts Centre, London
Graham Little
21 November–19 December, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Expanded Cinema: The Live Record
6 December 2008, BFI Southbank, London
Charlie Hammond
6 November–20 December, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles