In Three Parts

Abstract

the ingenious presentation of absence to prick the ascetic conscience of a greedy, guilty leisure class. But Gillick's work does not deploy absence as a passive, negative force; he manipulates it as an active phenomenon, a dark ether allowing the participant (and it is participants he seeks, not spectators) to use his work as a springboard for a long, slow dive into the deep water of time, motive, and consequence. Like the missing matter that makes up most of the universe it is this series of withholdings that define the entire trajectory of his project, most notably the central and defining absence of Gillick's alter ego, Erasmus Darwin, older brother of the more famous Charles and the dilatory hero of Erasmus Is Late.

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