Literally Some Place

Within the terms of renegotiation, the built world has shifted from a planned public space to a speculative series of places. The ideological trace of this shift cannot be hidden, yet requires occasional coaxing out from the web of references that are produced and overlaid on each other.

The Rooseum is a planned space produced under the terms of speculation and therefore open to shift, discursive processes and change. A sequence of propositions are requested and played with. A series of shifts and changes of emphasis will be proposed. An attempt to layer a veil of inconsistency over a place that was intended to form the backdrop yet can never prevent itself from taking the foreground. An attempt to reveal the contradictions inherent in the form and the renegotiated role of the place, without avoiding a series of potential parallels that can undermine and intertwine without resolution. An applied set of thinking that might help to visualise a backdrop to the forthcoming book "Literally No Place" - among other things an examination of the way revised manifestations of conscience and ethics find form in our contemporary urban landscape.

Liam Gillick
February 2001

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