Liam Gillick
Meaning
2009

The MIT Press
English, softcover, 188 pages, 14 x 21,5 cm
ISBN 978-0-262-51351-7

12 EUR

Edited by Monika Szewczyk, Stefan Kalmár, Dominic Molon, Beatrix Ruf, and Nicolaus Schafhausen
Texts by Peio Aguirre, Johanna Burton, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Kelsey, Maurizio Lazzarato, Maria Lind, Sven Lütticken, Benoît Maire, Chantal Mouffe, Barbara Steiner, Marcus Verhagen, Stefan Kalmár, Dominic Molon, Beatrix Ruf, Nicolaus Schafhausen, and Monica Szewczyk
Designed by Martha Stutteregger


Liam Gillick emerged as part of the generation of “Young British Artists” who energized the British art scene in the 1980s and 1990s. He is now one of the most influential artists in all of contemporary art. Artist, writer, curator, and provocateur, Gillick explores how an artistic practice can be conducted and represented, while at the same time questioning curatorial practice and the conventions of applied design. This reader coincides with a year-long, multi-venue, mid-career retrospective that serves both as a continuous investigation into Gillick's practice and an in-depth study of his work to date. The book offers a range of critical perspectives on Gillick's work. Among them: political scientist Chantall Mouffe develops her notion of radical democracy and antagonism; sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato (whose theorization of immaterial labor influenced Gillick) comments on the current economic crisis; philosopher and artist Benoît Maire links Gillick to continental philosophy; and Johanna Burton questions Gillick's practice in the context of feminist critique.