Nothing Personal Magazine | January 2021
Nothing Personal is a new magazine for art, essays and reviews, based in Glasgow, co-founded by Calum Sutherland, Maria Howard, Esther Draycott and Kiah Endelman Music.
The pilot issue includes writing and reviews by Neil Clements, Esther Draycott, Kiah Endelman Music, Maria Howard, Loll Jung, Aman Sandhu, Calum Sutherland and Swapnaa Tamhane, and artworks and images by Rosie Dowd-Smyth, Rhett Leinster, Lindsey Jean McLean, Oliver McConnie and Julia Tulke.
My article, Much of it Means Nothing, critiques the lack of meaningful care or action behind so-called ‘statements of commitment’ that art institutions seem to endlessly churn out around crucial issues including anti-racism, sustainability and fair pay.
How do We make a We, Compagnia | June 2018
Up/Skirt, a lyric poem looking at the relationship between Demeter, Persephone, Baubo and the lake, is included in How Do We Make a We, a publication that grew out of the Ratti Foundation’s XXIII CSAV artists’ research laboratory Language and Sound as Sculpture held in Como, Italy, in the summer of 2017.
Designed by Claudia de la Torre and Gregorio Magnani in collaboration with the participants, the publication investigates how sound, performance and language may become tools in the creation of a ‘we’ that is both capable of agency and in a continuous process of dismantling itself and of an ‘I’ that is always at war with itself.
The XXIII CSAV was : Lorenzo Benedetti, Hannah Black, Isaac Contreras, Michael Dean, Claudia de la Torre, Kiah Endelman Music, Hugo Esquinca, Romain Grateau, Russel Haswell, Karl Holmqvist, Doris Hardeman, Marine Julie’, Annett Kottek, Youngjae Lih, Gregorio Magnani, Jan Moszumanski Kotwica, Annie Ratti, Natalia Rebelo, Sara Rodrigues, Alex Turgeon, Titus Wonsey and Giulia Zabarella
