Images in this essay are stills from Liam Gillick, Everything Good Goes, 2008, video loop.
This essay was first presented as a response to the question “What is the Good of Work?” posed by Maria Lind and Simon Critchley within the framework of a series of talks by the same name hosted by the Goethe Institut New York. The essay will be available as an artist book published by Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand as part of the exhibition “post-Office,” in May 2010. For more information: www.artspace.org.nz.
© 2010 e-flux and the author