Issues / #3 Autumn 2005
Commission: Art After Love’s Philosophy
From 28 June to 9 July 2005, David Michael Clarke cycled the 1124 km from rue d’Angleterre (Nantes) to La Promenade des Anglais (Nice). He used the voyage to collect images, thoughts and texts for this new work.
Gorbals
Ruth Hedges rediscovers the photographs of her father Nick Hedges and visits the Gorbals in Glasgow, an area which he documented in the 60s, to find art on the streets
Journey Three: By Loch Eriboll
Duncan McLaren camps out in the Scottish Highlands on a search for land art and ‘globulites’
A Watchful Eye
Victoria Miguel interviews artist Rosalind Nashashibi about her recent residency in New York and making films
Record Restore Reconstruct?
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith takes stock of ‘temporary’ artwork, with Blinky Palermo at Edinburgh College of Art and Ian Hamilton Finlay at Inverleith House in mind
Portfolio: A Question of Degrees
Four artists, themselves graduates of Scotland’s art colleges, select work from the 2005 degree shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee—for art’s sake. Photography by recent graduates
Seeing Things
Contemplating the connections between belief, art and illusion, parapsychologist Peter Lamont offers a perspective on magic, psychic phenomena and the paranormal. New York artist Cai Guo-Qiang also seeks to reach the other side
Studio: Paula Rego
Hannah McGill and Luke Watson visit the London studio of painter Paula Rego and find it a ‘repository for thrilling objects’
A Family Life
Alastair McKay remembers an illuminating encounter with the Boyle Family shortly before the death of its chief member, Mark Boyle (1934-2005)
Art of the Public
Ken Neil investigates the work of Eva Merz and Dalziel + Scullion—artists taking a political view in the north
Diary: Nicola Atkinson Davidson
Nicola Atkinson Davidson writes from Los Angeles as she opens the final installment of her ‘Black Suitcase from Karachi’
Green Dot
Glasgow-based artist Shauna McMullan travelled across countries to exhibit in ‘Crossovers’, part of Japan’s 2005 Aichi Expo. Mapped by a big green dot, the resulting work ‘Via’, has its first UK showing in MAP
Back Page: Barbara Kruger
American artist, writer and winner of 51st Venice Biennale Lifetime Achievement Award, talks about music
There Where You Are Not
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 31 May–9 July 2005
Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 4 June–4 September, 2005
Double Vision
Timespan Gallery and Museum, Helmsdale 4-30 June and Australian Galleries, Collingwood 8-31 July, 2005
History of Disappearance—Live Art From New York 1975–Present
Baltic, 18 June-4 September, 2005