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
Off the Map: Duncan McLaren
Duncan McLaren strikes north in the first of a series of journeys that will take him along the high and low roads of the world in search of art
Duncan Campbell: Telling Stories
Ken Neil examines the existentialist core of Duncan Campbell’s prize-winning new film ‘Bernadette’
Residency: Bik van der Pol
John Calcutt talks to Rotterdam duo Bik Van der Pol about taking the collaborative route during their stay at Cove Park near Glasgow
Four Romanian Artists: Perjovschi, Nastac, Bejenaru, Nemes
Curator Jenny Brownrigg visits Romania and discovers four contemporary artists whose work maps a shift in territory and identity
Waiting to get into Prada Marfa, listening to crickets in the plains
Composer Ailie Ormston reflects on genre tropes, real and imagined architecture, and the use of local and global aural space in SLOW DANS. Part of a short series commissioned by Rosie Roberts for MAP
‘there are other ways to experience things beyond having an explanation’
Myriam Mouflih takes a walk to see Alter Altar by Jasleen Kaur at Tramway, Glasgow
Living Together
23 January–3 May, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Our Lady of the Forest, Part 1
by Saudamini Deo
Notes on Contemporary Art and Anthropology
Part 2: Conjuring the State. An essay by Angela McClanahan
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Singing, Fading
Project editor Daniela Cascella writes after last month’s contributions by Snejanka Mihaylova and Jen/Eleana Hofer
Andreas Bunte
7 November–9 December, 2009, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Doin’ it for the kids, the ESTATE way. 13 snapshots by Neil Cooper
‘With Jimmy Cauty a kind of absentee post-apocalyptic Pied Piper, the volcanic quake of ESTATE proves an irresistible attraction.’ Parked in Muirhouse, Edinburgh throughout June, the event occupies Easterhouse, Glasgow until end July 2021
Cathy Wilkes
16 April–8 June 2008, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
You Know, Things Like That
Catherine Spencer reviews Helen de Main’s collaborative exhibition at Platform, Glasgow, 26 November 2017 - 11 February 2018
End of Residency Party: reading, viewing, and sharing
Join special guests hosted by resident Reviews and Project Editors Rosie Roberts and Alison Scott, 22 October 8 - 9.30pm on zoom
Back Page: Juliette Blightman
Dear Juliette We would like to invite you to write about the view from a window and whatever associated thoughts are inspired by it. We heard you are a bit of an avid rear-window photographer and thought this small project would go well with the domestic-space thematic inherent in your practice.Best, MAP
#22 - June 2010
Fiona Mackay, Morag Keil and Manuela Gernedel: 84 Paintings
Barry Schwabsky talks to Fiona Mackay, Morag Keil and Manuela Gernedel about their unique collaboration
A Well-Cultivated Garden
Duncan McLaren visits a Glasgow show that seems custom-made for this Enlightenment issue
Compositional Insurgencies
Sarah Messerschmidt shares thoughts on Shade Théret’s choreographic practice
Emerging: Ann Bowman
Hollywood to Glasgow, this young American artist explores fantasy and glamour with a sharp film-maker’s eye
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.
Like an angel passing through my room
Event over. An evening with Jude Browning and Anne-Marie Copestake at CCA Glasgow, 6.30pm, Tuesday 24 September, 2019