» Ed Ruscha stars in Doug Aitken Film
London. US artist Ed Ruscha will take a starring role in a new film by the Los Angeles-based video artist Doug Aitken, which will be shown on an island in the middle of Rome. The Tiberina Island, a 335-metre long stretch of land located in the southern bend of the Tiber, will host the installation entitled Frontier (opening on 23 October).
Aitken told The Art Newspaper: “At the core of the work is a cinematic installation: a narrative film expanded to show on multiple screens in a site-specific structure. The film revolves around a protagonist, played by Ruscha as a solitary individual who moves through a city, from day into night, while the surrounding world undergoes a revolutionary change. In the work, he is carried through a series of seemingly everyday situations in a minimal landscape. These situations progress from insignificant moments to a series of more poignant encounters involving increasing numbers of people that eventually takes him to a gathering protest.”
You know who else is going to be in this film?
Hint: It’s me.
