{"id":13839,"title":"Literally No Place - Communes, Bars and Greenrooms","dimensions":"18 x 13 cm, 66 p., language : English, publisher : Book Works, London, ISBN : 1-870699-66-1","date_begin":"2002-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"Artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/703","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"literally-no-place-communes-bars-and-greenrooms","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/031/433/large/LiterallyNoPlaceCover.jpg?1458899513","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree characters return to a desert commune to tell three stories. Each one continuing until they reach a solution or a dilemma. Developing narratives that could be described as significant and marginal simultaneously. Addressing the urban/non-urban, the border zone and the locations of pre/post-presentation. Tin mining, \u003cem\u003eHotel California \u003c/em\u003eand throwing spoons across bars in Tokyo all contribute to a text that indicates the collapses inherent in any attempt to pin down the shifting state of our urban structures.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterally No Place\u003c/em\u003e was outlined during a public presentation in Brussels for the exhibition \u0026lsquo;Indiscipline\u0026rsquo; in 2000. That improvised speech created the basis of this book, which attempts to address how changes in concepts of conscience and ethics have left their trace in the built world.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGillick makes objects and exhibitions generated from short books that he writes, and The Wood Way (exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery 03 May - 23 June 2002), was elaborated by using the text of\u003cem\u003e Literally No Place\u003c/em\u003e, both meditating on the condition of utopian thinking and construction in what appears to be a definitively post-utopian time.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/87\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1860,"name":"Liam Gillick","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}