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VESSELS OF HOPE #70 ROOTS OF STONE - VESSEL ON MAP - APRIL 2024 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 @artwalkporty @map_magazine

FRAGMENTS #70 ROOTS OF STONE - VESSEL ON MAP - APRIL 2024 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 @artwalkporty @map_magazine

A STITCH IN TIME SAVES SUNSHINE #70 ROOTS OF STONE - VESSEL ON MAP - APRIL 2024 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 @artwalkporty @map_magazine

Fond memories of A Feminist Chorus with Lucy Reynolds produced by @map_magazine for @gifestival in 2014. We were lucky to work with @gsaarchives , @womenslibrary , @risottostudio and many amazing readers and contributors. Thank you for these kind words Lucy @afeministchorus Posted @withregram • @afeministchorus If it hadn’t been for @map_magazine and its editors Laura Haynes and Alice Bain I would never have got the chance to create a feminist chorus with the Glasgow Women’s Library, and work with a wonderful array of artists and art students in Glasgow for GI 2014. I know I’m one of many artists, writers, musicians they and MAP’s other editors have worked with over the years. Allowing us to make ideas a reality. I’m dismayed to find out funding cuts will bring this amazing creative and thought provoking space to an end. Thank you MAP for everything you’ve given us over many years. /feminist-chorus-1

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. We now look forward to developing the structure and navigation of MAP’s extensive digital archive (c. 1600 contributions) which will remain live and free to readers. In the next few weeks, we will also publish a small number of texts commissioned in 2023. In the years since the pandemic, the fast changing publishing and communications climates, alongside funding precarity, combine to make this project no longer sustainable. Today though, most importantly, we’d like to offer gratitude to our brilliant readership, and to those many hundreds of artists and writers, and other supporters, who have contributed words, images, film & moving image, recordings, projects, opinion, advice, kindness and friendship across time and geography. Too many to mention here individually, together these people have played a vital role in creating a continuous stream of inspiration, imagination, challenging ideas, questions and aesthetic observations, open to all. #map_magazine

RADIO TALK Rebecca Wilcox takes to the air with Glasgow’s Radiophrenia *** Rebecca Wilcox is an artist mainly working with writing and audio, often collaboratively. She is interested in apperception, poetics and a notion of the ‘ideal’ version versus second-hand recordings, loops and traces, in relation to the reproduction of ideas. Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station broadcasting intermittently from the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. The station is managed as a collective by Mark Vernon, Barry Burns, Timothea Armour and Stevie Jones. The 7th edition of Radiophrenia broadcast across Glasgow on 87.9FM and worldwide online, 24 hours a day, 21 August-3 September, 2023. radiophrenia.scot. @radiophreniaglasgow Jess Higgins is an artist & writer based in Glasgow, mostly into: forms & questions of performance ~ the voice & noise ~ listening relations ~ complicities & resistances vis a vis -organisation, capital, labour. jessicasusanhiggins.info @jessica_higgins_ Antrianna Moutoula (GR, 1994) lives and works in Amsterdam. Primarily language-based, her work spans performance, film, radio, and writing. Driven by the desire to articulate the continuous present, her research focuses on an auto-theoretical practice in which she performs streams of consciousness by tracing her thoughts through language simultaneously in spoken and written form. Always seeking ephemeral encounters with necessary others, she explores nonstop languaging as a biweekly radio performance at Radio WORM, Rotterdam. antriannamoutoula.com @antrianna.moutoula Image: Antrianna Moutoula, ‘Much Love, A’, Radiophrenia performance @cca_glasgow

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’ *** This text was commissioned by LUX Scotland and is republished here by MAP with thanks. @luxscot Keir Milburn’s most recent book Generation Left has proven highly influential, provoking debate across several countries on the generational divide in politics. He co-hosts the popular #ACFM podcast on Novara Media which explores the link between music, the weird, left-wing politics, and experiences of collective joy. As a member of the Red Plenty Games Collective he also designs and runs political strategy games and uses game play to research common political imaginaries. Finally, he is co-director of the think tank Abundance, which focuses on designing and implementing Public-Common Partnerships, an alternative model for the ownership and governance of assets. Abundance is currently participating in eight projects seeking to establish Public-Common Partnerships or related public-community action models in locations spread across urban and rural settings in several different countries. *** Established in 2010, the Margaret Tait Commission is a LUX Scotland commission delivered in partnership with Glasgow Film, supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland. Inspired by the pioneering Orcadian filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait (1918 – 99), the commission recognises experimental and innovative artists working with the moving image, offering a unique avenue of commissioning and production support and providing a high-profile platform to exhibit newly commissioned work. @luxscot On Clogger Lane premiered at Glasgow Film Theatre in February 2023 and as part of a UK tour has been exhibited at The Tetley, Leeds, with a screening at Washburn Heritage Centre on 5 January, 2024 and an exhibition at LUX, London from 19 January to 10 March 2024. Image: Andrew Black, On Clogger Lane, still, 2023

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. Introduction by MAP, November 2023 As a free access, open platform for writers, art writers and artists, Map Magazine works on the basis that these many collected voices are forefront. This is particularly the case since 2011 when Map moved online, publishing on a rolling basis: in this revised format the occasional editorials, mostly by guest editors, are directly linked to specific projects, not to overall content. Map otherwise publishes work in response to pitches and approaches from a wide variety of contributors. Expanding this spirit, events unfolding around the world prompt us to face the unthinkable consequences of war and violence continuing to infect the human story. Peace, equality, the right to home, should be there for us all without fear. It is impossible to consider any other approach to such catastrophic actions. As a response to the destruction in Gaza, we are republishing this Map article from 2021. We hope that related articles will follow *** Elhum Shakerifar is a BAFTA-nominated producer, curator and writer working through her London-based company Hakawati (meaning ‘storyteller’ in Arabic). Shakerifar’s core ethos is that a good story is in the telling, and that we are the stories we tell. She is a programmer for London Film Festival, advising on films from the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf. Abdallah Al-Khatib is a writer, director and cinematographer. Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, screened at the London Film Festival, 13 & 15 October 2021, with Abdallah Al-Khatib present. The film was also on the programme of the London Palestine Film Festival, 30 November, 2023.

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 *** Caitlin Merrett King is a writer and arts programme based in Glasgow. Her novella Always Open Always Closed was published by JOAN earlier this year. @caitlinmerrettking Good Bad Books? was a series of workshops and talks exploring the imaginative spaces of genre fiction as sites of comfort and conflict organised by Anna Bunting-Branch and Naomi Pearce at the Barbican from 19th August to 28th September 2023. @barbicancentre Photo: Caitlin Merrett King

AS IF WRITING WERE NOT SLEEPING Hilary White reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless *** Hilary White is an Irish Research Council, Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, working on a project called Forms of Sleep: Literary Experiments in Somnolence. *** Marie Darrieussecq is the author of over twenty books, including novels, essays, a play, a biography and translations. In 2013 Darrieussecq was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men. She lives in Paris. Sleepless is translated by Penny Hueston and was published by @fitzcarraldoeditions August 2023. Photo: Hilary White

PUBLIC LIBRARY Jacob Hoffman on a new programme of events in a community space hosted by The Dissenter for Space Studies, Edinburgh *** PUBLIC LIBRARY is a project initiated by Jacob Hoffman. Jacob is a visual artist and facilitator based in Edinburgh. Follow @publiclibrary2023 Caitlyn Holly Main is an artist and writer concerned with intimacy, emotional labour, desire and consumption. Caitlyn currently works at Gray’s School of Art as a lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice. @caitlyn_main Tactics for Togetherness is an artist collective concerned with building sustained support for artists in Aberdeen. TfT comprises Phoebe Banks (she/her), Yvette Bathgate (she/her), Kirsty Russell (she/her), Jake Shepherd (he/him) and Jess Wilson-Leigh (she/her), all graduates of Gray’s School of Art and now based in Aberdeen and Tallinn. @tacticsfortogetherness Billy Morgan is an artist based in Amsterdam who works across text, performance, and video. The estrangement of established frameworks—linguistic, relational, historical, erotic— is at the crux of their work.This twist often pivots around language as a conveyor of meaning, power and old tongues. @billymoregone PUBLIC LIBRARY is supported by OuterSpaces, the Hope Scott Trust and Scottish Artists Union with Scottish Union Learning. @jacob__max @dissenter.space ‘Taurus’, video work by Billy Morgan, shot by Philipp Amaro (2022), still

POEMS AS PORTALS Phil Crockett Thomas responds to Nat Raha: epistolary (on carceral islands). Part of Rosie Roberts’ Edinburgh Art Festival 2023 series *** Phil Crockett Thomas is a writer who teaches sociology and criminology at the University of Stirling. She is the editor of Abolition Science Fiction (2022) and of The Moon Spins the Dead Prison (2022) with Thomas Abercromby and Rosie Roberts. Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar based in Edinburgh. @full_nommunism The event attended, epistolary (on carceral islands), was part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2023. @edartfest