An Announcement from MAP magazine
After a run of nearly 20 years, MAP magazine is now closed to pitches and commissions. It has been both a privilege and pleasure to have worked with so many wonderful contributors, editors and organisations across Scotland and beyond, throughout the life of this publishing project.
Vessels of hope
A response by Isabel Pérez-Ramos to the 2023 Portobello-based project Vessel. This is one of three texts commissioned by organisers Art Walk Projects and published by MAP
Fragments
A response to Vessel by Alycia Pirmohamed. This text, one of a trio published on MAP this month, was commissioned by Portobello-based Art Walk Projects as part of its 2023 Vessel programme
#70 - April 2024
Vessel on MAP
A Stitch in Time Saves Sunshine
A response by Maria Sledmere to the work of Jonathan Baxter, Tonya McMullan and Claudia Zeiske, all participants of the 2023 Art Walk Projects programme Vessel. This artist text is one of three AWP commissions to be published this month in collaboration with MAP
Plant Scenery of the World
Third in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Catriona Gallagher visits Inverleith House’s new exhibition ‘Plant Scenery of the World’ 27 July - 29 October
Memories of Eduardo Paolozzi
Edinburgh-based sculptor Duncan Robertson remembers Eduardo Paolozzi, a giant of Scottish art, who died in April, 2005
Music: Melanie Gilligan: Prison for Objects
10 April–10 May 2008, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Feminism: A Question of Readership
In this issue we publish a selection of the many reader responses to the set of questions on feminism in Issue 15
Stephen Willats
14 November 2009–16 January 2010, Balice Hertling, Paris
On Margate Sands
Philomena Epps explores Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’ at Turner Contemporary, Margate, 3 February - 7 May 2018
A SHELL, A HOUSE, A HOME, A FACE, A FAÇADE, A FRONTISPIECE
Hussein Mitha responds to COCO!NUTS! by Rabiya Choudhry at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 15 September - 20 October
The International Necronautical Society (INS) 17 January
17 January, Tate Britain, London
Bart Wells Institute, Eds: Luke Gottelier & Francis Upritchard
Dent-De-Leone, 2009, £15, ISBN: 978–0-9561885–2–6
Pablo Helguera: The Unanswerable
Karen Archey interviews New York-based artist & writer Pablo Helguera Pablo Helguera, ‘The School of Panamerican Unrest’, 2003-ongoing
Diango Hernández
6 September–25 October, 2008, Barbara Thumm, Berlin
WOMAN WITH A RED HAT
Edinburgh Art Festival: Tom Jeffreys reflects on ‘Event for a Stage’ by Tacita Dean, part of Woman with a Red Hat, Fruitmarket, 7 July - 30 September
(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
BELLA
Hannah James responds to a year in conversation with artist Rosie O’Grady
INTERSTICES
Rachael Finney reviews ‘Interstices’ by Terre Thaemlitz at Auto Italia, 3 October - 3 December
‘As if writing were not sleeping’
Hilary White reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless
#37 - June 2016
Living with the Promises of Appearances
Performance and Broadcast by Sarah Rose and Rebecca Wilcox | 9.45 - 10.45pm, 21 June 2016
#4 - December 2005
Review
Beijing Biennale
Biennale and other events citywide during September and October 2005
Performance & Energy: 2nd Invitation from Good on Paper
Over six months, Gordon Douglas & Cicely Farrer share a series of invitations looking into the futures of performance art making in Scotland. The second letter invites readers to attend an online workshop Sunday 29 May 2022 from 11am-1pm
AFTERWORD
Louise Briggs, curator of ‘The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella’, provides an intimate insight into the thought process behind the show which takes place at Glasgow Sculpture Studios 23 January - 5 March 2016 and includes work by Eva Berendes, Stephanie Mann, Rallou Panagiotou, Vanessa Safavi and Samara Scott
Pinochet Porn in Progress
Artist Ellen Cantor sketches out the narrative beginnings of an ambitious film project
Looking at Quilts
Mhari McMullan reviews work by Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way at Glasgow Print Studio. Part of Glasgow International 2021
Andy Warhol: Self Portraits
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 12 Feb-2 May 2005
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Listening with Eunice
by Helena Hunter and Mark Peter Wright
WHAT A FEELING! ACT I
Saoirse Amira Anis responds to Christian Noelle Charles’ WHAT A FEELING! Part I, at Edinburgh Printmakers. This is one of a series on the Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, commissioned for MAP by Rosie Roberts