[{"id":7927,"title":"Underground (Fragments of Future Histories)","dimensions":"20 x 13.8 cm, 96 p, language: English, publisher: Brussels/Dijon: Les Maîtres de Forme Contemporains/Les presses du réel, ISBN: 2-84066-134-9","date_begin":"2004-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":5,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/630","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"underground-fragments-of-future-histories","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/842/large/Untitled005.jpg?1371024196","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe starting point of \u003cem\u003eUnderground (Fragments of Future Histories)\u003c/em\u003e by Liam Gillick is the first science fiction novel ever written, entitled \u003cem\u003eFragments d\u0026rsquo;Histoire Future\u003c/em\u003e and written in 1884 by Gabriel Tarde. The French philosopher, sociologist and criminologist depicts in his novel the collective functioning of a society that has taken refuge in the heart of the Earth following a climatic disaster. Liam Gillick has made a contemporary adaptation of Tarde\u0026rsquo;s text, by rewriting the English translation from 1904 that had a preface by H.G. Wells. Gillick added a preface on his own by the Italian sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato. Tarde\u0026rsquo;s original book concerns an ecological catastrophe that befalls a world that has embraced what can only be described as a form of globalisation. The rump of the world\u0026rsquo;s population ends up in a bunker in Iraq, waiting to perish before they are saved by a man who suggests that they make a new life underground. Once the decision has been made they create a new aesthetic life in an architecture with no exterior, which gives Tarde the opportunity to play with varied paradigms of human potential.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe use of this text as a concentrated core allows other parallel potentials to spin free of the central idea and produce a sequence of provisional structures that allow both focus on the text and embody notions of distraction and delusion simultaneously. In September 2004, Liam Gillick produced an exhibition in Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, under the same title \u003cem\u003eUnderground (Fragments of Future Histories)\u003c/em\u003e. This exhibition brought together a sequence of displacements that highlighted the close line that the work often describes between states of fiction and documentary. On one hand it was the setting for the presentation of Gillick\u0026rsquo;s book: an altered place where it is possible to stop a while and watch a trailer for the text set to electronically re-processed midi files of \u0026ldquo;Early Music\u0026rdquo; while flicking through the novel. The floor of the gallery was tweaked, troubled and accentuated. Standing on a pile of carpet that doubled as a model terrain was a television playing a 7 minute trailer that featured selections from the book published as the \u003cem\u003eraison d\u0026rsquo;\u0026ecirc;tre\u003c/em\u003e of this project. The exhibition space was both a search for temporary contextual devices that \u0026ldquo;will do\u0026rdquo; in relation to the work on the book while the works, including four new Discussion Platforms in the rear space, are also a continuation of a formal language that developed alongside the written work.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=521\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":12823,"title":"Erasmus Is Late","dimensions":"18 x 11.5 cm, 88 p, language: English, publisher: Book Works, ISBN: 978 1 870699 17 4","date_begin":"1995-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/560","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"erasmus-is-late","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/027/732/large/ErasmusIsLateCover_0.jpg?1426966130","poster_credits":"Book Works","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e15.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central character of \u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e is Erasmus Darwin, opium-eater and brother of the more famous Charles who is indeed late. Late for a dinner party that he himself is giving and whose illustrious guests, already assembled around his table, include: Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy; Masura Ibuka, co-founder of Sony; and Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist\u0026rsquo;s mother, illustrates these sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to \u0026lsquo;unfree\u0026rsquo; thought and the working classes.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn one level a guide to contemporary London seen through the eyes of a Georgian, \u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e is also an examination of pre-Marxist positions, an ill-researched investigation of a Utopian optimism that is struggling to predict the future.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e originated from Liam Gillick\u0026#39;s proposal to Book Works for the New Texts commission in 1994. The novel acted them as the fulcrum for a body of works that stemmed from it: \u003cem\u003eIbuka!\u003c/em\u003e (the production of a musical scenario that focuses on one of the key characters from the book \u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e); \u003cem\u003eMcNamara\u003c/em\u003e (a short cartoon film produced in London by a commercial animation company); an exhibition at Gallery Schipper \u0026amp; Krome, and so on.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.liamgillick.info/home/work/mcnamara-erasmus-whatif/erasmus-and-ibuka\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":13839,"title":"Literally No Place - Communes, Bars and Greenrooms","dimensions":"18 x 13 cm, 66 p., language : English, publisher : Book Works, London, ISBN : 1-870699-66-1","date_begin":"2002-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"Artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/703","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"literally-no-place-communes-bars-and-greenrooms","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/031/433/large/LiterallyNoPlaceCover.jpg?1458899513","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree characters return to a desert commune to tell three stories. Each one continuing until they reach a solution or a dilemma. Developing narratives that could be described as significant and marginal simultaneously. Addressing the urban/non-urban, the border zone and the locations of pre/post-presentation. Tin mining, \u003cem\u003eHotel California \u003c/em\u003eand throwing spoons across bars in Tokyo all contribute to a text that indicates the collapses inherent in any attempt to pin down the shifting state of our urban structures.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterally No Place\u003c/em\u003e was outlined during a public presentation in Brussels for the exhibition \u0026lsquo;Indiscipline\u0026rsquo; in 2000. That improvised speech created the basis of this book, which attempts to address how changes in concepts of conscience and ethics have left their trace in the built world.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGillick makes objects and exhibitions generated from short books that he writes, and The Wood Way (exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery 03 May - 23 June 2002), was elaborated by using the text of\u003cem\u003e Literally No Place\u003c/em\u003e, both meditating on the condition of utopian thinking and construction in what appears to be a definitively post-utopian time.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/87\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":13791,"title":"Liam Gillick - Lawrence Weiner 'A Syntax of Dependency'","dimensions":"30.7 x 21.5 cm, 55 p., language : English, publisher : Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen/Mousse Publishing, Milano, ISBN : 9788896501610","date_begin":"2011-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Exhibition catalogue","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/763","stream_count_app":9,"permalink":"liam-gillick-lawrence-weiner-a-syntax-of-dependency","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/031/264/large/__Photo_M_HKA__15.jpg?1458549542","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003eEditor : Dieter Roelstraete (Curator M HKA).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eText : Dieter Roelstraete, Liam Gillick \u0026amp; Lawrence Weiner.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvailable in the M HKA - bookshop.\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003eEditor : Dieter Roelstraete (Curator M HKA).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eText : Dieter Roelstraete, Liam Gillick \u0026amp; Lawrence Weiner.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVerkrijgbaar in de M HKA - bookshop.\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":"\u003cp\u003eEditor : Dieter Roelstraete (Curator M HKA).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eText : Dieter Roelstraete, Liam Gillick \u0026amp; Lawrence Weiner.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDisponible dans le M HKA - bookshop.\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"}]},{"id":5269,"title":"All Books","dimensions":"21.5 x 14.1 cm, 241 p, language: English, publisher: Book Works, London, ISBN: 978 1 906012 17 5","date_begin":"2009-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2021/420","stream_count_app":23,"permalink":"all-books","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Liam Gillick","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/697/large/Artistnovel_003.jpg?1342085605","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCollected here for the first time are Liam Gillick\u0026rsquo;s major fictional texts: \u003cem\u003eMcNamara Papers\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIbuka\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDiscussion Island/Big Conference Centre\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Winter School\u003c/em\u003e, with \u003cem\u003eErasmus is Late\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;and \u003cem\u003eLiterally No Place\u003c/em\u003e. Within each history, and the utopias and alternative visions of society envisioned by writers, filmmakers, philosophers, and scientists are presented and speculated on, often through the fictionalised voices of secondary historical characters. Traversing genres of fiction and critical discourse, ideas are explored in a nonlinear, open-ended discursive format, in which the textual structure mirrors the structuring of the presented ideas. In each text Gillick\u0026rsquo;s concern is to explore complex, paradoxical historical moments and the ideologies that shaped them, reflecting on how the redundant utopian elements of the past continue to structure contemporary society and remain impulses within speculations of our post-utopian future.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the last fifteen years, the British artist Liam Gillick has created parallels between his personal shows and his own writings. Many of his exhibitions have run simultaneously with the publishing of a book. Frequently, the books are included in the installations, along with flat-color panels, text sculptures, architectural structures, videos, and designs. This parallelism seems to be a self-conscious artistic practice and it is at the core of his artistic production. The books are neither merely supplementary materials, nor incursions in a quite different field of creation. Gillick\u0026rsquo;s exhibitions, on the other hand, cannot be reduced just to his installations. Even if the artworks or books can be enjoyed as autonomous pieces, isolating Gillick\u0026rsquo;s artistic productions or underestimating the structure of the whole looks like a rather deceivable approach. The structure of his works seems to be precisely this parallelism between the writings and the visual images. He provokes the search for dialogue among the installations, novels, scripts, and essays he writes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ndash; Ernesto Men\u0026eacute;ndez-Conde\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/146\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e Dit is de eerste collectie van de belangrijkste fictie van Liam Gilick: *McNamara Papers*, *Ibuka*, *Discussion Island/Big Conference Centre*, *The Winter School*, *Erasmus is Late* en *Literally No Place*. Die teksten presenteren en bespreken geschiedenis en de utopi\u0026euml;n en alternatieve visie\u0026rsquo;s op de samenleving van schrijvers, regisseurs, filosofen en wetenschappers, vaak aan de hand van de gefictionaliseerde stemmen van tweederangsfiguren uit de geschiedenis. De grenzen van fictie en kritisch betoog worden overschreden, en idee\u0026euml;n worden verkend in een niet-lineaire discursieve vorm met open einde. De structuur van de tekst spiegelt het structureren van de voorgestelde idee\u0026euml;n. In elk van die teksten verkent Gillick complexe, tegenstrijdige historische momenten en de ideologie\u0026euml;n erachter. Hij denkt na over hoe overtollige utopische elementen uit het verleden de hedendaagse samenleving verder blijven vormgeven en impulsen blijven in speculaties over onze post-utopische toekomst. \u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e \u0026ldquo;De laatste vijftien jaar heeft de Britse kunstenaar Liam Gillick parallellen geschapen tussen zijn eigen tentoonstellingen en zijn teksten. Veel van zijn tentoonstellingen liepen tegelijk met de publicatie van een boek. De boeken worden vaak opgenomen in de installaties, tesamen met kleurpanelen, tekstsculpturen, architecturale structuren, video\u0026rsquo;s en ontwerpen. Die parallellen lijken een zelfbewuste artistieke opzet en behoren tot de kern van zijn artistieke productie. De boeken zijn niet louter extra materiaal of uitstapjes in een totaal ander creatief domein. Aan de andere kant kunnen we Gillicks tentoonstellingen niet zomaar herleiden tot zijn installaties. Zelfs als de kunstwerken of boeken kunnen worden bekeken als afzonderlijke werken, dan nog lijkt het een eerder bedrieglijke benadering om Gillicks artistieke creatie\u0026rsquo;s af te zonderen, of om de structuur van het geheel te onderschatten. Het lijkt er eerder op dat de parallellen tussen de teksten en de beelden de structuur van zijn werk vormt. Hij lokt uit om te zoeken naar dialoog tussen zijn installaties, romans, scripts en essays.\u0026rdquo; - Ernesto Men\u0026eacute;ndez-Conde [Novel website](https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/146)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":36267,"title":"A Max De Vos","dimensions":"18 x 11,5 cm, 157 p., language: English, publisher: Mer. 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