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
Showstoppers
Calum Gardner responds to ‘Showstoppers - Silver Centrepieces’ at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 13 May - 15 October
Fluid Systems
Alice Hill-Woods reviews a collection of poems that ‘understand the quiet, polychromatic force of being seen’
#4 - December 2005
Review
Books: Wolfgang Tillmans truth study center
Published by Taschen, October 2005
Scott Myles: Unlike Pairs
Lilian Haberer and Regina Barunke examine the histories and dichotomies in the work of Glasgow-based Scott Myles
Remarks: GSS
Beagles & Ramsay have undertaken the first production residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios’ new home to develop their practice and create two monumental sculptures.
Martin Creed
4 May–29 July 2007, Hauser & Wirth, Coppermill, London
#12 Winter - November 2007
Review
William Eggleston
28 July–14 October 2007, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Mike Kelley
29 September–22 December 2007, Jablonka Gallery, Berlin
Remarks
Katrina Brown on Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art,Kathrin Rhomberg on the 6th Berlin Biennale,Josh Brand on the Whitney Biennial, New York,Polly Staple on 21st Century at Chisenhale Gallery, London,Deirdre MacKenna on Stills residencies in Edinburgh
#2 - May 2005
Commission: Walk the Walk Draw the Draw
Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi responds to the word ‘map’ with a clear outline of his world. The MAP Commission publishes new work by an artist each issue
Jesse Jones: Men in Dark Times
Artist Jesse Jones presents an excerpt from her forthcoming project, The Centre of the Elephant
#21 Spring - March 2010
Review
Mircea Cantor
14 November 2009–23 January 2010, The Common Guild, 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
Diango Hernández
6 September–25 October, 2008, Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Cyprien Gaillard: Recycling the Ruins
Cyprien Gaillard recently witnessed the destruction of high rise buildings in Glasgow: acute observations of this are the subject of his new work. Joanna Fiduccia talks to him about his practice and the death and decay of modernism in urban architecture
Expanded Cinema: The Live Record
6 December 2008, BFI Southbank, London
#16 Winter - November 2008
Review
On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, Binna Choi (eds.) £20 www.bak-utrecht.nl
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was
17 September–25 October, 2009, The Drawing Room, London
Unrequited Thing
Isabel Galleymore responds to ‘Pleasure is a Weapon’ by Susie Green at Grand Union, Birmingham, 1 September - 18 November
Performance & Language: 1st invitation from Good on Paper
Over six months, Gordon Douglas and Cicely Farrer share a series of invitations that look into the futures of performance art making in Scotland. The first invites readers to attend a workshop on 27 March 2022
My Favourite Sister’s Uncle
Colin Herd responds to an exhibition by Charlie Billingham and Zin Taylor at Independent Régence Brussels, 7 September - 7 October
Ocean time
Rhian Williams reviews Minna Dufton’s Big vs. Small at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Rewind + Play: An Anthology of Early British Video Art
LUX, DVD, 2009, £30
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Upreference (from the urn-taciturn)
Project Editor Daniela Cascella responds to last month’s contribution by Jessica Sequeira
A Maggot - For Freda
Kirsty Hendry considers ‘the flimsy layer that separates one body from another’, as we re-publish her 2018 essay
Diary: Nicola Atkinson Davidson
Nicola Atkinson Davidson writes from Los Angeles as she opens the final installment of her ‘Black Suitcase from Karachi’
Commission: Ruth Ewan
A set of four postcards by Ruth Ewan have been commissioned for this issue of MAP
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
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Learning to Live with Ghosts, Part 1
by Moosje M Goosen