Doug Aitken
Born 1968 California – Lives and works in Los Angeles and New York
Doug Aitken explores the liquidity of time and space in his large-scale outdoor video projections, expansive cinematic installations, earth works and exhaustive series of happenings and musical collaborations. Aitken’s works have appeared in major institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MoMA, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery and the Centre Pompidou, as well as in international events such as the Whitney Biennial in 1997 and in 2000. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for his video installation Electric Earth at the Venice Biennale.
Searching to deconstruct our experience of sound, image and the rhythm of our media-saturated surroundings through outdoor video, Aitken conducts a series of interviews on the nature of creativity. For the Liverpool Biennial in 2012, Aitken asked Tilda Swinton, Ryan Trecartin, Jack White and fifteen other artists “what is the source of a creative idea?” The resulting multi-screen video installation The Source, was housed in a temporary pavilion designed by British architect David Adjaye.
Aitken’s collaborative spirit spread through his preceding projects, most notably his kinetic light sculpture Station to Station (2013). The train traveled from New York to California broadcasting unique content, delivering concerts and happenings at each of the nine stops. In 2015 Station to Station was made stationary (in location but not in spirit) at the Barbican in London in collaboration with the Vinyl Factory. The exhibition allows audiences to witness a wide range of artistic processes including computer designed wood cut sculptures, and printmaking as they are developed and produced – making the creative process equal to the final product. The largest of the works in progress was a multi-screen projection showing fifteen-second Instagram videos reflecting Aitken’s interpretation of art as the byproduct of a digital revolution.
Born 1968 California – Lives and works in Los Angeles and New York
Doug Aitken explores the liquidity of time and space in his large-scale outdoor video projections, expansive cinematic installations, earth works and exhaustive series of happenings and musical collaborations. Aitken’s works have appeared in major institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MoMA, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery and the Centre Pompidou, as well as in international events such as the Whitney Biennial in 1997 and in 2000. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for his video installation Electric Earth at the Venice Biennale.
Searching to deconstruct our experience of sound, image and the rhythm of our media-saturated surroundings through outdoor video, Aitken conducts a series of interviews on the nature of creativity. For the Liverpool Biennial in 2012, Aitken asked Tilda Swinton, Ryan Trecartin, Jack White and fifteen other artists “what is the source of a creative idea?” The resulting multi-screen video installation The Source, was housed in a temporary pavilion designed by British architect David Adjaye.
Aitken’s collaborative spirit spread through his preceding projects, most notably his kinetic light sculpture Station to Station (2013). The train traveled from New York to California broadcasting unique content, delivering concerts and happenings at each of the nine stops. In 2015 Station to Station was made stationary (in location but not in spirit) at the Barbican in London in collaboration with the Vinyl Factory. The exhibition allows audiences to witness a wide range of artistic processes including computer designed wood cut sculptures, and printmaking as they are developed and produced – making the creative process equal to the final product. The largest of the works in progress was a multi-screen projection showing fifteen-second Instagram videos reflecting Aitken’s interpretation of art as the byproduct of a digital revolution.