Bad at Sports Episode 220: Liam Gillick - a podcast by Bad at Sports

Liam Gillick. That is right, the man whose imagination can take him

anywhere. A transparent master of the question of Modernity? Cat

lover? Designer/author/theorist/artist/architect? The son Donald Judd never wanted? Enigma cloaked in riddle? Relational Aesthetic

celebrity? All these things and more... We at Bad at Sports try and

get to the bottom of Liam's magic in this hour-long interview.



The last element in Liam Gillick's 4 part global retrospective, "Three perspectives and a short scenario" will run through January 10th at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. 

Accompanying that exhibition, Gillick has produced "The one hundred and sixty-third floor: Liam Gillick Curates the Collection," which is also be on view.

Liam Gillick emerged in the early 1990s as part of a re-energized
British art scene, producing a sophisticated body of work ranging from
his signature "platform" sculptures -- architectural structures made of
aluminum and colored Plexiglas that facilitate or complicate social
interaction -- to wall paintings, text sculptures, and published texts
that reflect on the increasing gap between utopian idealism and the
actualities of the world.

His work joins that of generational
peers such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and Philippe Parreno in defining what
critic Nicholas Bourriaud described as "relational aesthetics," an
approach that emphasizes the shifting social role and function of art
at the turn of the millennium. Gillick's work has had a profound impact
on a contemporary understanding of how art and architecture influence,
and are themselves influenced by, interpersonal communication and
interactions in the public sphere.

This exhibition is presented
in association with the Witte de With in Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Zurich,
and the Kunstverein in Munich. It is the most significant and
comprehensive exhibition of Gillick's work in an American museum to
date, comprising a major site-specific installation in the gallery
ceiling as well as a presentation of his design and published works,
and a film documenting projects from the entirety of his career. The
MCA is the only American venue for the exhibition.

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