‘Only the mineral remains’
A commentary by writer, researcher and activist Keir Milburn in response to Andrew Black’s Margaret Tait Commission film, ‘On Clogger Lane’
Little Palestine
Elhum Shakerifar’s reflection on Abdallah Al-Khatib’s poetry and film was first published on MAP in 2021 in Issue #63. We republish it now with a new introduction.
You know it’s not the same as it was:
Caitlin Merrett King attends The Promise of Pleasure, the closing event for Good Bad Books?, a series of workshops and talks organised by Naomi Pearce and Anna Bunting-Branch and held at the Barbican in August/September 2023
‘As if writing were not sleeping’
Hilary White reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless
Public Library
Jacob Hoffman on a new programme of events in a community space hosted by The Dissenter for Space Studies, Edinburgh
MAP x EAF
Guest editor Rosie Roberts introduces her five commissioned responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, 2023
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
Calvin & Dorothy Towers
Calvin Z Laing responds to Sean Burns’ work Dorothy Towers as part of an Edinburgh Art Festival 2023 series, commissioned by Rosie Roberts
Care with Composition
MAP X EAF guest editor Rosie Roberts, writes to Markéta Luskačová regarding her 2023 exhibition at Stills, Edinburgh
Park Life
Caitlin Merrett King documents Jupiter Rising X EAF Party as part of a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, commissioned by Rosie Roberts for MAP
Poems as Portals
Phil Crockett Thomas responds to Nat Raha: epistolary (on carceral islands). Part of Rosie Roberts’ Edinburgh Art Festival 2023 series
Extended to Attract and Repel
Eilidh Akilade finds much to weigh up on her tour of the Edinburgh sewage works with artist Tonya McMullan. The drawing tour was part of Art Walk Porty Festival’s Extended Programme and curated project Vessel
Repeat Patterns
New work by Helen de Main & Mandy McIntosh at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. Review by Catherine Spencer
Take a Walk
‘A visit to Art Walk Porty, across the two hottest days of the year, feels like every artwork is looking over its shoulder to somewhere else along the coastline, fragments from a whole that is variably very close or out in the distance, like the tide or a toilet flush.’ Timothea Armour puts on her sunscreen.
Vessel
Founder and curator of Art Walk Projects, Rosy Naylor introduces this year’s theme, exploring questions of resilience, care and adaptability in the face of global climate questions. This also marks the continuation of an ongoing editorial partnership with MAP
The Flesh, the Mesh, the Mushroom
Writing Fungal Poetry Through Deep Collaboration. By Fiona Glen and Nina Hanz. Their book Mycoglossia is published by HVTN Press
Drilling Through Hard Boards
Andrew Key reviews Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall (2020) at Glasgow Film Festival
#5 - January 2006
Commission: Clara Ursitti
Clara Ursitti is an artist based Glasgow who has recently exhibited at Tramway, Glasgow and Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden. She has an upcoming exhibition at CB Studios, New York. (This entry will be completed online by July 2016).
Counterpart
TJ Carlin talks to Leigh Ledare about personal subjectivity and its reception
Cinema of resistance
Anahit Behrooz reviews Mohammad Rasoulof’s ‘There is No Evil’ at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Nothing Personal
Susannah Thompson reviews a new journal that dares to ask the awkward questions and poses complex ideas around critical conversation
Remarks: Collective Recipes
Palermo-based artist Aleksandra Mir discusses her new book project.
Books: Ron Mueck
By Robert Rosenblum, published by Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, 2006
…where the art is: the interwoven spaces of Radiophrenia…
Anna McLauchlan channels ‘Radiophrenia’, a fortnight of live broadcast sound and transmission arts
Constant Companion
Philippa Snow reviews Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler’s account of taking on seasonal work at Amazon
Collaborative Research
Sam Ainsley, a member of AHM, discusses future plans for this artist trio
In Place of Hate
Jessica Ramm considers the results of Edmund Clark’s three-year residency at HMP Grendon, the UK’s only therapeutic prison. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 6 December 2017 - 11 March 2018
#13 Spring - March 2008
Wilhelm Sasnal: Deluxe Punk
‘You are telling me things, but what do you actually mean by that? Whats your point? Lukasz Ronduda digs deep into the work of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal
Thank you for writing to me so often, you are revealing yourself to me in the only way you can
Laura Edbrook reflects on the reading and discussion group ‘Sick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women’ co-run with Emma Balkind and presented by MAP between autumn 2013 and autumn 2014. ‘Sick Sick Sick’ was an open reading project based online and at the CCA, Glasgow and examined a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers
To Entertain
Appendix 4 of Good on Paper’s first invitation to readers to join the Performance & Language workshop
Little Palestine
Elhum Shakerifar reflects on Abdallah Al-Khatib’s poetry and film
Intentionally Unsent Letters or Letters Forgotten Unintentionally
The first in a series of letters written by Ester Krumbachová, published in conjunction with the exhibition and film programme of the Czech artist’s work at CCA Glasgow, 7 Dec 2018 to 27 January 2019
A Year of Carte Blanche & Other Chimeras
Too Likeable (To the Side of Rosemary Mayer), Part 2
by Alice Butler
Gardenlust #10: The Slug Murderers
A monthly column by Isabella Streffen
Jonathan Monk
8 December 2006–18 February 2007, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / 29 November 2006 –20 January 2007, Lisson Gallery, London
Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Barbican, London, 16 February–21 May 2006
Cathy Wilkes
16 April–8 June 2008, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
Emerging: Jamie Shovlin
Steven Cairns looks at the work of emerging artist Jamie Shovlin
Wanderlust
Dominik Czechowski reviews Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017 at UB Art Galleries, New York, 7 September - 31 December 2017, touring to the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 17 February - 13 May 2018