Issue #21 Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place

Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place

Liam Gillick

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Haus Rucker Co, Documenta Oasis #7, Documenta V, 1972. Photo: Günter Zamp Kelp

Issue #21
December 2010










Notes
1

See Liam Gillick “The Good of Work” e-flux journal, no. 16, (May 2010), ; and Liam Gillick, by Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand as the book “Why Work?” (Auckland: ARTSPACE, 2010).

2

Hal Foster for the Editors, “Questionnaire on ‘The Contemporary,’” October 130 (Fall 2009): 3.

3

Correspondence with the author, November 2010.

4

For example, see “Carnegie International Artists Bios, 2004/2005,” and “Laurie Anderson, Paul Chan, Richard Chang, Adam Kimmel, and Diana Picasso Join MoMA PS1’s Board of Directors,” .

5

Quoted from Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle, A Guiding Light, Shanghai Biennale; Performa, New York, 2010.

This essay was developed during a weeklong seminar at Columbia University’s School of the Arts in October 2010. Special thanks to Robin Cameron and Ernst Fischer for the use of their notes of the week’s work. The text was written for the book Cultures of the Curatorial (eds. Beatrice von Bismarck, Jörn Schafaff, Thomas Weski), forthcoming in 2011.