Her largeness of gesture, her idiosyncracy of manner, her flashing eyes, her demands, her circumlocutions, her insistence on hypocrisy as the higher sincerity–these are indispensable resources.
you’re like one of those people who can’t bake cakes but keeps trying
hf to xk
there are 10 sorts of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Many things have been achieved since the democratization of art, which means that people can enter into this activity without an education or certain skills. But also the art of many artists could be described as deeply sentimental about ethical or honest practice. Work that can be identified with a real job or real failure. Roles formulated as the presented self, part of a parallel working class and the idea of the democratization of practice, enriched in the paradoxical, combined with a somewhat antidemocratic belief that there is no one better than them.
Liam Gillick, Interview 2009
Of course I am working even when it looks as if I am not working. And even if I am not working and it looks as if I am not working I still might claim to be working and wait for you to work out what objective signifiers actually point towards any moment of value or work. This is the game of current art.
Liam Gillick, The good of work
they don’t reveal any of their secrets. none of the juicy “i have sex with tomatoes” stuff anyway.
perseverance is its own reward and necessity is the unmarried mother of invention.
i always ruin it by opening my mouth