Born: Aylesbury, 1964

Liam Gillick is interested in the processes of communication, negotiation and discussion between people, as well as in the bureaucratic systems that govern them. He understands all these things as essential elements in contemporary life, in which our ability to negotiate determines not only our own status but the future of society. This relationship between the micro level of individual discussions and the macro level of social change lies at the heart of his work. According to Gillick, the role of the artist is to occupy an in-between state - working in the spaces separating disciplines, finding possible new relationships and future liaisons.

Using aluminium panels he has created a structure that sits in the centre of the gallery as provisional architecture, from which the rest of the show can be observed and discussed. The title Applied Distribution Rig defines the position of the work. It is 'applied' as an attempt to respond to an actual situation in the real world. It is about the redistribution of ideas generated by the exhibition at the halfway point of the show. Finally, it is a temporary structure, a 'rig', alluding to the provisional nature of Gillick's art.