The text of the conference is available in Italian.
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Liam Gillick starts with the idea of a recipe as “refinement of a series of actions and things that have already been played out towards a result that some other people would also like to try in order to compare it to their own actions and observations towards a new set of effects.” Gillik’s lecture itself then becomes a recipe, or an attempt to play with that complex system of roles and scenarios that governs our lives and, in an even more rigid but perhaps avertible way, the system of art.

Liam Gillick, artist, lives and works in New York. His work focuses on the systems of ideological control that have emerged with globalization and neoliberalism. In the early 1990s, Gillick, along with Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, was part of the so-called YBAs (Young British Artists) who dominated the London art scene. In 2002, the artist held his first major solo exhibition at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. That same year, Gillick was nominated for the Turner Prize.