Back in May, Axisweb announced they were having a clear out of their books and publications in their Leeds office, inviting their membership to get in touch if they wanted anything as they were going digital. This was just before Holmfirth Arts Festival where Vanessa Haley and I were curating the Towser Bothy which featured an artists’ book and zine library and a dry stone wall bar. I got to Leeds as quickly as possible. Amongst the haul of artists’ books and zines which went into the Library were several back issues of MAP Magazine. They’ve been sat in my studio waiting to be read for months, and finally I got round to taking a look with a specific research intent.
Here are my rubbish findings in the rejected magazines (part 1):
MAP Issue 2, Summer 2005 (p.55)
A review of Tomoko Takahashi’s exhibition My Playstation at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 22 February – 10 April 2005, by Donald Hutera: This exhibition by the 2002 Turner Prize shortlistee “comprised around 7600 objects collected, donated or found over a period of months, which Takahashi painstakingly sorted and arranged throughout the Serpentine […] The waste and decadence underpinning Takahashi’s show were redeemed on the final day via a beautifully-managed take-away, in which the public was invited to come and cart off the gallery’s contents.”
MAP Issue 3, Autumn 2005 (p.19)
In the Graduates 2005 section under Aberdeen, David MacRaild’s sculpture Need Not Want Not gets a mention: “A collection of detritus from around his studio has been encased in a one-mtere cube of translucent resin and placed on a wooden pallet.”
http://www.artlink.com/DBImages/1759_Need%20Not,%20Want%20Not.jpg
MAP Issue 4, Winter 2005/6 (p.6)
Moira MacLean’s wallpaper installation at An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
MacLean is self-described as ‘a domestic archaeologist’ and ‘a wallpaper pirate’. “I started collecting wallpaper from derelict houses more than a decade ago.”
http://northings.com/files/2011/04/moira-maclean-265×400.jpg
MAP Issue 16, Winter 2008/9 (p.50-55)
The Recycling the Ruins feature on French artist Cyprien Gaillard looks at his first exhibition in a British institution; the Glasgow 2014 project at the Hayward, London. “When Tom Morton, curator of the project, invited me to show in this space [Hayward’s project space], I decided to make one of these monuments I’ve been wanting to make for a long time, using recycled concrete from a demolished tower block up in Glasgow. We shipped about 30 tons of concrete from a demolished tower block to London and I assembled this rubble into the shape of an obelisk. It’s called ‘Cenotaph to 12 Riverford Road, Pollokshaws, Glasgow’, which is the name of the building demolished this summer.”
http://haywardprojectspace.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/cyprien-gaillard-glasgow-2014.html
