#GillickDecodes - An Artists Twitter Panel on "Forms of Life: Liam Gillick Decodes the World"
We asked artists @Jen_Dalton, @Powhida, @gregorg, and @SteveLambert to discuss @NatoThompson's Forms of Life interview with Liam Gillick on Creative TIme Reports (http://bit.ly/WMyg0N). NOTE: A tweet may be moved out of chronological order to position it closer to the tweet it responds to.
Discussion of "Liam Gillick Decodes the World" (bit.ly/WMyg0N) begins in a moment. #GillickDecodes Panel: bit.ly/GillickDecodes- Welcome to our panelists, artists @Jen_Dalton, Greg (@gregorg) Allen, @SteveLambert, and William @Powhida. #GillickDecodes
- What were your initial thoughts on listening to @NatoThompson's interview with Liam Gillick on CTR? #GillickDecodes
- ======================Initial Thoughts======================
Being practical, I listened trying to find what serves us. Self-ghettoizing doesn't. Expanding into other disciplines does… #GillickDecodes
I felt that after I'd listened to it, I had a fuller understanding of being Liam. #DecodingGillick as much as #GillickDecodes
I also thought Liam should probably read all the responses to Irving Sandler's call to critics bit.ly/VSwmbM on 'critical voice'- @cmonstah oh, there's like 38 responses to Irving's call to critics here bit.ly/WiJ45A
@ArtistsReport My initial thoughts were that Liam Gillick would like to consider art in the absence of artists, or society- @jen_dalton Frustrating for an artist? Or might there be a usefulness in that if one comes back with findings? #GillickDecodes
- @ArtistsReport I don't think I know how to look at art without considering the artist
- LG worries about conveying ideas about art, but also, as he said, decoding the "built environment" NG wants to fix art #GillickDecodes
- .@gregorg What do you think Gillick sees as broken in art at this "present moment"? #GillickDecodes
- 1 broken thing is default mode of self-referencing within art, instead of embracing and engaging the whole culyure #GillickDecodes
- yes, I got this sense, too, though neither seemed able to fix it. @stevelambert 1 broken thing: default mode of self-referencing within art,
@stevelambert agree, if the idea is to diversify the art world then making art that references itself, i'm not feeling it #GillickDecodes- @stevelambert Yes, but so much contemporary art is not self-referential. LG seems hung up on the bit that is #GillickDecodes
- .@jen_dalton yeah, but so much IS! Think about how someone without an art education reads it. That background is often req. #GillickDecodes
- ===================Morality vs. Sanctimony===================
- @ArtistsReport I am puzzled by NG's framing of the "morality" of those who critique the market vs. the "sanctimony" of some artists
