A Variability Quantifier
$60.31
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
29 December 2025
Summary
A Variability Quantifier: Art, Weather, and Fogo Island
Liam Gillick’s A Variability Quantifier is an artwork that functions as an operational weather station on Fogo Island, Newfoundland. It gathers local weather data and serves as a place for education, reflection, and discussion.
A year after the installation, Gillick returned to create a documentary film about his work, resulting in two separate films using the same footage.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915609281 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915609283 |
| Author: | Liam Gillick |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press |
| Imprint: | Sternberg Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 29 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 697g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 191mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Liam Gillick
Liam Gillick is a New York based British born artist known for contributions in architecture, sculpture, video, and word art. His work focuses on expanding ideas of labor, time, and color through his distinctive conception of exhibition as a medium. Gillick initiated this approach in the 1990s and has exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea; Madre Museum, Naples; Serralves Museum, Porto; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate, London. He consistently contributes to international biennials- Documenta Kassel, Istanbul Biennial, the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, and the 1st Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art.
Josee Drouin-Brisebois is Producer and Senior Manager of National Outreach at the National Gallery of Canada, where she was formerly Senior Curator of Contemporary Art.
Nicolaus Schafhausen is a curator, director, author, and editor of numerous publications on contemporary art. Since 2011 he has been the Strategic Director of Fogo Island Arts, Canada, an initiative of Shorefast, a charitable foundation dedicated to finding alternative solutions for the revitalization of areas prone to emigration.
Claire Shea is the Director at Fogo Island Arts, Canada, an initiative of Shorefast, a charitable foundation dedicated to finding alternative solutions for the revitalization of areas prone to emigration.
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