Liam Gillick

Perpetual Discussion Platforms
2025

Presented by Baton
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Perpetual Discussion Platforms
2025
H 240 x W 960 x D 280 cm
Powder coated aluminum, plexiglas

Conversations, negotiations, and decisions often unfold in spaces designed to shape behavior—boardrooms, parliaments, public squares. Perpetual Discussion Platforms by Liam Gillick considers how architecture choreographs these interactions, not through instruction, but through suggestion. The work establishes a series of structures that invite gathering, yet resist dictating purpose. Gillick has long explored the ways in which built environments shape experience, emphasizing the gaps between function and expectation, transparency and opacity, control and improvisation. Here, color and light become active participants, shifting with time, reflecting the impermanence of discourse itself. These platforms could be places for exchange, for pause, for disagreement, or simply for being. What happens when a space signals possibility rather than outcome? Perpetual Discussion Platforms opens this question to its visitors. The work does not determine how dialogue unfolds but instead underscores the conditions that make discussion possible. It is an experiment in how architecture holds space—both literally and conceptually—for conversation, dissent, and imagination.

《Perpetual Discussion Platforms》
2025
240厘米（長） x 960厘米（闊）x 280厘米（深）
粉末塗層鋁、有機玻璃

對話、談判與決策通常發生在特定空間中，這些空間從設計之初便旨在塑造行為，例如會議室、議會廳和公共廣場。Liam Gillick的《Perpetual Discussion Platforms》探討了建築如何通過暗示而非指令來編排這些互動。作品建立了一系列結構，邀請人們聚集，卻不限定具體用途。Gillick一直在探索建築環境如何塑造體驗，強調功能與預期、透明與晦澀、控制與即興之間的間隙。在這裡，色彩和光線成為主動參與者，隨時間流轉，並反映言論本身的無常。這些平台可以是交流的場所，停頓的空間，分歧的領地，或純粹是存在的場所。當空間暗示可能性而非結果時，會發生什麼？《Perpetual Discussion Platforms》向觀眾提出了這一問題。作品不決定對話如何展開，而是突顯展開對話的條件。這是一次關於建築如何為對話、異議和想像力提供空間的實驗——既是字面上的意義，也在概念層面上。

Born 1964 in Aylesbury
Lives and works in New York

1964年出生於艾爾斯伯里
現於紐約生活和工作