Burnout: Liam Gillick's post-fordist aesthetics

• Autores: Bill Roberts
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 36, Nº. 1 (April), 2013, págs. 180-205
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The work of British artist Liam Gillick (born 1964) offers a quintessential model of a flexible, multifaceted, project-based practice, while a number of his key works thematize contemporary post-Fordist production more widely. Examining the complex inter-articulation of Gillick's artistic labour and his allusive portrayal of broader conditions of production, this essay constructs a picture of Gillick's �post-Fordist aesthetics� by focusing on activities related to the artist's 1997 novella Discussion Island/Big Conference Centre, as well as the research project, Construcción de Uno, ongoing since 2004. The performative dimension of Gillick's artistic labour is revealed to be key to an understanding of his practice; the sovereignty of discrete works is constantly thwarted by Gillick's dynamics of proliferation and delay, and a perpetual relay between exhibition and text. By systematically attending to the constellational interplay of the various elements of Gillick's work, a clearer picture can thus be formed of a practice that enacts a �flexibilized� divergence from, and convergence with, the very cultural logic that it seeks to diagnose.