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LIAM GILLICK

BIOGRAPHY

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2000-2009
 1987-1999

PUBLIC WORKS
TEXTS BY LIAM GILLICK

WHAT DO YOU REPRESENT?
ART AND PROTEST: REVERSE ICONOCLASM
MOUNTAINS? WHAT MOUNTAINS?
SOME REFLECTIONS ON ART
AND PHILOSOPHY
SHOULD BE: ORGANIZATIONAL
PATHWAYS RESTATED.
 WE LIVED AND THOUGHT LIKE PIGS.
THE COMPLETE CURATOR.
THE INCOMPLETE CURATOR.
INDUSTRY AND INTELLIGENCE.
 CONTEMPORARY ART DOES
NOT ACCOUNT FOR THAT
WHICH IS TAKING PLACE.
WHY WORK?
PREVISION.

TEXTS ON LIAM GILLICK

AND WHY WOULD THERE BE A TITLE?
BY NICOLAS BOURRIAUD.
 SOMEWHERE SPECIFIC IN MIND
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN
LIAM GILLICK AND SUZANNE COTTER.
THE WORK LIFE EFFECT:
A SMALL EXTRACT FROM
AN ENDLESS EXCHANGE
LIAM GILLICK AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST.
TIMELINE   
BOOKS   
FILM   
LINKS

INTERNAL

2000-2009


Annlee You Proposes (Structure and Film), 2001 Annlee You Proposes (Structure and Film), 2001 everything is possible except that which isdeemed impossible by the nature of things, 2001 Barred, 2001 Barred, 2001 In order to be able to draw a limit to thought..., 2001 Filtration, 2001 Consciens Lobby, 2001 Prototype Conference Room (Whitechapel Version), 2002 You Can’t Organise a Certain form of Social Organisation, 2002 Prototype Conference Room (Whitechapel Version), 2002 Coats of Asbestos Spangled with Mica, 2002, Turner Prize, Tate, London Coats of Asbestos Spangled with Mica, 2002, Turner Prize, Tate, London donuts/soda/headache/phonecard/stereo, Frieze, London, 2003 Applied Discussion Platform, 2003 Home Office Commission, 2003 Home Office Commission, 2003 somethingjustfellfromthesky, 2003 Stand now on a Ridge, 2003 exteriordays, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, 2003 exteriordays, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, 2003 Literally (Structure), 2003, Museum of Modern Art, New York Literally (Diagram), 2003, Museum of Modern Art, New York I can’t answer that question it’s a question of conscience, 2003 Telling Histories, Kunstverein München, 2003 Telling Histories, Kunstverein München, 2003 Telling Histories, Kunstverein München, 2003 Telling Histories, Kunstverein München, 2003 www.usdoj.gov/eoir/OcahoMain/publisheddecisions/Hardbound/Volume1/25.pdf, 2003 Reciprocal Passage Work, 2003 Exterior Consultation Diagram, 2003 Exterior Consultation Diagram, 2003 Övningskörning (Driving Practice), 2004 1983, 2004 Guide, 2004 nineteenfortysixxisytrofneetenin, 2004 Underground (Trailer for a book), 2004 Underground (Trailer for a book), 2004 56th Floor Structure, 2004 Reference Platform, 2004 Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy, 2004 Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy, 2004 A short text on the possibilities of creating an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2005 The view constructed by the factory after it stopped producing cars, 2005 A diagram of the factory once the former workers had cut extra windows in the walls, 2005 The hopes and dreams of the workers as they wandered home from the bar, 2005 The view constructed by the factory after it stopped producing cars, 2005 A short text on the possibilities of creating an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, 2005 The Two Hundred and Twenty Second Floor, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, 2005 The Two Hundred and Twenty Second Floor, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, 2005 Factories in the Snow, Galerie Meyer Kainer, 2005 The content constructed within the factory once It has stopped producing cars, 2005 The context constructed in the factory once It has stopped producing cars, 2005 The intent constructed in the factory once It has stopped producing cars, 2005 1982, 2005 Deviated Wall Structure, 2005 Buffalo Structure, 2005 Buffalo Structure, 2005 Edgar Schmitz, 2005 Edgar Schmitz, 2005 Four Levels of Exchange, Lufthansa Headquarters, Frankfurt, 2005 Four Levels of Exchange, Lufthansa Headquarters, Frankfurt, 2005 Revealed Distance Device, 2005 Woven Discussion Backdrop, 2005 Punctuated Revision Network, 2005 Reconciliation Structure, 2005 Revision Structure, 2005 Struck Screen, 2005 End of Production Black, 2005 Collected Development Structures (consolidation, refraction, production, efficiency, struck, unanimous), 2005 Presentism, Corvi-Mora, London, 2005 Sochaux in Franche Compte, 2006 Stacked Restricted, 2006 Cubed Revision Screen, 2006 Striated Presentation Striated, Maharam, Chicago, 2006 Striated Presentation Striated, Maharam, Chicago, 2006 unitednationsplaza logo, 2006 Dispersed Discussion Structure, 2006 Es una clase muy pobre de memoria que sólo funciona hacia atrás, 2006 Glanced in the midst of a legislated break, 2006 The State Itself Becomes a Super Commune Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2006 The State Itself Becomes a Super Commune, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2006 The State Itself Becomes a Super Commune, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2006 Filtered Reduction, 2006 Revised Projection, 2006 Monument to Charles Fourier C, 2006 Monument to Charles Fourier C, 2006 Culture is important in a free society (an exhibition of things that don’t exist yet), 2006 Culture is important in a free society (an exhibition of things that don’t exist yet), 2006 Strange Reduction, 2007 Final Reduction, 2007 Five Short Texts, 2007 Extended Production Black, 2007 Propped Discussion Platform, 2007 Full Scale Model of a Social Structure for a Plaza in Anyang, 2007 Full Scale Model of a Social Structure for a Plaza in Anyang, 2007 Full Scale Model of a Social Structure for a Plaza in Anyang, 2007 Full Scale Model of a Social Structure for a Plaza in Anyang, 2007 Seeded Production, 2007, Restricted Practice, 2007 Closure of a Plant, 2007 Realigned Production, 2007 Racked Projection, 2007 Received Wall Structure, 2007 Reimaged Projection, 2007 Ludlow 38, New York, 2007 Communal Wall Structure, 2007 Relations of Equivalence, 2007 Revision in the Snow, 2007 Revision in the Snow, 2007 Closed Reopened Closed Again, 2007 London Underground Map, 2007, TFL, London The Commune Itself Becomes a Super State, Corvi-Mora, London, 2007 The Commune Itself Becomes a Super State, Corvi-Mora, London, 2007 The Commune Itself Becomes a Super State, Corvi-Mora, London, 2007 The state/commune itself as a super state/commune, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, 2007 The state/commune itself as a super state/commune, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, 2007 The state/commune itself as a super state/commune, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, 2007 Implied Ended, 2007 Relieved Distributed, 2007 Resistance Wall Structure, 2007 Restricted Projection, 2007 Shelf System A, 2008, Multiplied Discussion Structure, 2007 Shipped Ended, 2007 Structure for Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, 2007 Discarded Projection, 2008 Lean Projection, 2008 Mean Completion, 2008 Produced Projected, 2008 Rendered Collective, 2008 1968, 2008 Resisted Production, 2008 Restricted Factor, 2008 Walk Out, 2008 Mannered Agreement, 2008 Dynamica Building, Guadalajara, 2008 Dynamica Building, Guadalajara, 2008 Dynamica Building, Guadalajara, 2008 Dynamica Building, Guadalajara, 2008 Dynamica Building, Guadalajara, 2008 Dynamica Building, Guadalajara, 2008 Dynamica Building, Guadalajara, 2008 Mirrored Image: A Volvo Bar, Eastside Projects, 2008 Mirrored Image: A Volvo Bar, Eastside Projects, 2008 Mirrored Image: A Volvo Bar, Eastside Projects, 2008 Mirrored Image: A Volvo Bar, Eastside Projects, 2008 Everything Good Goes, 2008 Everything Good Goes, 2008 Lying on top of a building the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street, Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, 2008 Lying on top of a building the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street, Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, 2008 Audio guide benches, 2008, theanyspacewhatever, Guggenheim Museum, 2008 theanyspacewhatever Signage System, 2008 theanyspacewhatever Signage System, 2008 theanyspacewhatever Signage System, 2008 Audio guide benches, 2008, theanyspacewhatever, Guggenheim Museum, 2008 theanyspacewhatever Signage System, 2008 theanyspacewhatever Signage System, 2008 theanyspacewhatever Signage System, 2008 Between Kalmar and Udevalla, 2008 Developmental, 2008 Projected Retraction, 2008 The State itself Becomes a Super Whatnot, Casey Kaplan, 2008 The state itself becomes a super whatnot, 2008 Lapsed Reduction, 2008 Projected Retraction, 2008 Rescinded Production, 2008 Status Following Closure, 2008 Status Following Closure, 2008 Rendered Rejection, 2008 Usines partielles dans la neige, Air de Paris, Paris, 2008 Usines partielles dans la neige, Air de Paris, Paris, 2008 Usines partielles dans la neige, Air de Paris, Paris, 2008 Usines partielles dans la neige, Air de Paris, Paris, 2008 Collective Projection, 2008 Resisted Projection, 2008 Structured Projection, 2008 Revised Solution, 2008 Retired in Place, 2008 Revised Sochaux Structure, 2008 Allocated Table (AKA Grid), 2008 Reiterated Negotiation, 2008 Related Faction, 2008 Single Production Line, 2008 Swiss Architecture Award, 2008 Transferred Projection, 2009 Specific Alignment Platform, 2009 How are you going to behave: A Kitchen cat speaks, 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, German Pavilion How are you going to behave: A Kitchen cat speaks, 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, German Pavilion How are you going to behave: A Kitchen cat speaks, 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, German Pavilion How are you going to behave: A Kitchen cat speaks, 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, German Pavilion How are you going to behave: A Kitchen cat speaks, 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, German Pavilion How are you going to behave: A Kitchen cat speaks, 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, German Pavilion How are you going to behave: A Kitchen cat speaks, 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, German Pavilion How are you going to behave: A Kitchen cat speaks, 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, German Pavilion Scale model for a building in a public garden, 2009 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, MCA Chicago, 2009 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, MCA Chicago, 2009 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, MCA Chicago, 2009 Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario, MCA Chicago, 2009 24/7 Kiosk, 2009 The horizon produced by a factory once it had stopped producing views, 2009 The horizon produced by a factory once it had stopped producing views, 2009 Lamp Sign Thing, Ministry of Interior, Netherlands, 2009 GTI, 2009 Wall diagrams from the 1990s and early 2000s, House of Art, Budweis, Czech Republic, 2009 Wall diagrams from the 1990s and early 2000s, House of Art, Budweis, Czech Republic, 2009 Executive Two Litre GXL, MAK, Wien, 2009 Executive Two Litre GXL, MAK, Wien, 2009 Lauriston School Exterior Color Scheme, 2009 Benched Discussion, 2009 The Librarian Speaks, 2004-2009

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