Single-channel video installation, color, sound
14 min 52 sec


The film Everything good goes documents the process of the artist creating a 3D-model of the "Salumi“ factory, known from Jean Luc Godard and Pierre Gorin filmset of "Tout va bien“ (1972). Referring to the original film once more, the artist uses a reversion of its title to name his film (and the exhibition) – "Tout va Bien“ turns into Everything good goes.
The soundtrack in the background is the play back of a long telephone message, which Liam Gillick leaves to the filmproducers regarding the planned project. The message consists of some of the artist thoughts on the themes work and production, in which Gillick uses the factory as an analogy in its character as a system to analyse processes of production, developement and conditions, and to reciprocally consider idea and discourse as cycles of production themselves. By this means the film, as an interlacing of theoretical developement and practical construction, outlines the context and the main themes of Gillick’s art of the recent past.


*1964 in Aylesbury, United Kingdom | Living and working in New York, USA
 

Liam Gillick graduated from Hertfordshire College of Art and Goldsmiths College, University of London, B.A. (Hons.). His work exposes the dysfunctional aspects of a modernist legacy in terms of abstraction and architecture when framed within a globalized, neo-liberal consensus, and extends into structural rethinking of the exhibition as a form. He has produced a number of short films since the late 2000s which address the construction of the creative persona in light of the enduring mutability of the contemporary artist as a cultural figure. He is the author of a number of books including a volume of his selected critical writing.

The biography is from liamgillik.info

© the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York