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Liam Gillick
How Are You Going to Behave? A Kitchen Cat Speaks
This book documents Gillick’s project for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009. It contains an introduction by the curator, a text by Liam Gillick about his work as well as the text spoken by the kitchen cat present in the show: “She speaks from the present and fights against the echoes of building’s interior. It’s history is one of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and desires. Thus, the pavilion becomes a location for endless self-circulating histories that—in the end—represents our history as well.”
164 pp / 6 x 9 inches / 40 color
ISBN: 978-1-933128-74-0
Retail Price: $19.95
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Collected here for the first time are Liam Gillick’s fictional writings: McNamara, Erasmus is Late, Ibuka!, The Winter School, Discussion Island/Big Conference Centre, and Literally No Place. Presenting the historical, utopian visions of society and speculating on them often through the fictionalized voices of secondary historical characters, these ideas are explored in a nonlinear, open-ended discursive format, in which the text mirrors the structure of the presented ideas. Gillick’s concern is to explore complex, paradoxical historical and ideological moments, reflecting on how the redundant utopian elements of the past continue to inform both our contemporary and post-utopian future.
248 pp / extensive b&w and 6 color
ISBN: 978-1-906012-17-5
Retail Price: $32.00