Greenrooms, Bars and Communes

"This work comprises the subtitle of my book 'Literally No Place'. Utopia means literally no place. I was extremely interested in the idea of utopia as an accusation, especially in the field of architecture and urban planning. Where attempts to actually change something were often accused of being utopian rather than merely compromised. The work is both an announcement and a set of places where we might find alternative models of discourse and potential. The greenroom where people wait before going on stage or television - the place of anxiety combined with pre and post performance. The bar need not be described but the commune of the title and the work is the contested site. The place of escape the ultimate failure the site of delusion and distraction that became the aesthetic model for resistant semi-autonomous models of art. The work is not utopian it describes no places of potential where time operate differently to the normal flows of capitalised daily life."
Liam Gillick