Literally No Place
Communes, Bars and Greenrooms
by Liam Gillick (2002)

Three 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, Hotel California and 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.

Literally No Place was outlined during a public presentation in Brussels for the exhibition Indiscipline 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.
Literally No Place is published to coincide with Liam Gillick’s major solo show The Wood Way at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, 3rd May to 23rd June 2002.

Published in an edition of 1,500 copies, 72 pages, printed offset, 179x130mm,
ISBN 1 870699 66 1, price £9.95

Designed by Liam Gillick and Silke Roch

Sharp-Talk

Julian Stallabrass was commissioned to write a text on Literally No Place as part of Sharp-Talk, an online series of texts about Book Works titles. Click here to read the texts.