{"id":5269,"title":"All Books","dimensions":"21.5 x 14.1 cm, 241 p, language: English, publisher: Book Works, London, ISBN: 978 1 906012 17 5","date_begin":"2009-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2021/420","stream_count_app":23,"permalink":"all-books","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Liam Gillick","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","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/000/010/697/large/Artistnovel_003.jpg?1342085605","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCollected here for the first time are Liam Gillick\u0026rsquo;s major fictional texts: \u003cem\u003eMcNamara Papers\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIbuka\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDiscussion Island/Big Conference Centre\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Winter School\u003c/em\u003e, with \u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;and \u003cem\u003eLiterally No Place\u003c/em\u003e. Within each history, and the utopias and alternative visions of society envisioned by writers, filmmakers, philosophers, and scientists are presented and speculated on, often through the fictionalised voices of secondary historical characters. Traversing genres of fiction and critical discourse, ideas are explored in a nonlinear, open-ended discursive format, in which the textual structure mirrors the structuring of the presented ideas. In each text Gillick\u0026rsquo;s concern is to explore complex, paradoxical historical moments and the ideologies that shaped them, reflecting on how the redundant utopian elements of the past continue to structure contemporary society and remain impulses within speculations of our post-utopian future.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the last fifteen years, the British artist Liam Gillick has created parallels between his personal shows and his own writings. Many of his exhibitions have run simultaneously with the publishing of a book. Frequently, the books are included in the installations, along with flat-color panels, text sculptures, architectural structures, videos, and designs. This parallelism seems to be a self-conscious artistic practice and it is at the core of his artistic production. The books are neither merely supplementary materials, nor incursions in a quite different field of creation. Gillick\u0026rsquo;s exhibitions, on the other hand, cannot be reduced just to his installations. Even if the artworks or books can be enjoyed as autonomous pieces, isolating Gillick\u0026rsquo;s artistic productions or underestimating the structure of the whole looks like a rather deceivable approach. The structure of his works seems to be precisely this parallelism between the writings and the visual images. He provokes the search for dialogue among the installations, novels, scripts, and essays he writes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ndash; Ernesto Men\u0026eacute;ndez-Conde\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/146\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e Dit is de eerste collectie van de belangrijkste fictie van Liam Gilick: *McNamara Papers*, *Ibuka*, *Discussion Island/Big Conference Centre*, *The Winter School*, *Erasmus is Late* en *Literally No Place*. Die teksten presenteren en bespreken geschiedenis en de utopi\u0026euml;n en alternatieve visie\u0026rsquo;s op de samenleving van schrijvers, regisseurs, filosofen en wetenschappers, vaak aan de hand van de gefictionaliseerde stemmen van tweederangsfiguren uit de geschiedenis. De grenzen van fictie en kritisch betoog worden overschreden, en idee\u0026euml;n worden verkend in een niet-lineaire discursieve vorm met open einde. De structuur van de tekst spiegelt het structureren van de voorgestelde idee\u0026euml;n. In elk van die teksten verkent Gillick complexe, tegenstrijdige historische momenten en de ideologie\u0026euml;n erachter. Hij denkt na over hoe overtollige utopische elementen uit het verleden de hedendaagse samenleving verder blijven vormgeven en impulsen blijven in speculaties over onze post-utopische toekomst. \u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e \u0026ldquo;De laatste vijftien jaar heeft de Britse kunstenaar Liam Gillick parallellen geschapen tussen zijn eigen tentoonstellingen en zijn teksten. Veel van zijn tentoonstellingen liepen tegelijk met de publicatie van een boek. De boeken worden vaak opgenomen in de installaties, tesamen met kleurpanelen, tekstsculpturen, architecturale structuren, video\u0026rsquo;s en ontwerpen. Die parallellen lijken een zelfbewuste artistieke opzet en behoren tot de kern van zijn artistieke productie. De boeken zijn niet louter extra materiaal of uitstapjes in een totaal ander creatief domein. Aan de andere kant kunnen we Gillicks tentoonstellingen niet zomaar herleiden tot zijn installaties. Zelfs als de kunstwerken of boeken kunnen worden bekeken als afzonderlijke werken, dan nog lijkt het een eerder bedrieglijke benadering om Gillicks artistieke creatie\u0026rsquo;s af te zonderen, of om de structuur van het geheel te onderschatten. Het lijkt er eerder op dat de parallellen tussen de teksten en de beelden de structuur van zijn werk vormt. Hij lokt uit om te zoeken naar dialoog tussen zijn installaties, romans, scripts en essays.\u0026rdquo; - Ernesto Men\u0026eacute;ndez-Conde [Novel website](https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/146)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"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"}}]}