Pecha Kucha: 6 mins 20 secs
If you start with the sentence “My practice is focused by place,” then the next sentence that logical follows is “I’ve been working in … Ireland, Palestine, Siberia.” Whereas if you start with the sentence “My practice is focused by context,” then the next logical sentence can be any one of a very large number of things… [more]
This text and the associated slides were presented at the Pecha Kucha held at the RSA in Edinburgh.
Liam Gillick quotes Peter Fend
“Art is an investigation by human animals into constructable or alterable aspects of the material surroundings. It is prior to technology or the invention of tools. It is therefore a seedbed of economy. Of course this is not how it is usually perceived at least in society today. Which explains how society – that is, modern civilisation – is so unresponsive to its divergence from ecological cycles, or to basic human needs for shelter and food. Any failure in material culture results from a failure to adopt the lessons, the probings, the investigations of art.”
p.38 Gillick, L. Proxemics: Selected Writings (1988-2006) Zurich: JRP Ringler and Dijon: Les Presses du reel
CHRIS FREMANTLE 
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