For A Guiding Light, Gillick and Vidokle invited artists Bosko Blagojevic, Noah Brehmer, Nadja Frank, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and Danna Vajda, critic Tim Griffin, and curators Anna Colin, and Shama Khanna to consider the curatorial premise of a large scale international art exhibition: the 8th Shanghai Biennale. The artists gathered these eight participants at a New York television studio, and, combining a curatorial text by Gao Shiming with a structural analysis of a 1952 episode of the television soap opera Guiding Light, staged a production that shifts between analysis and self-critique.