hyde or die

Remember that Doug Aitken film I was in? I just got this rendering in my email of what it is going to look like and the details of the installation:

The major installation in Rome (will be) on the tip of the Tiber Island from 23 October to 23 November 2009 (http://www.enelcontemporanea.it). Afterwards the installation will be donated by Enel to the MACRO museum of Rome (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma), as part of a new partnership between Enel and the museum.

Wish I was there to see my breakthrough performance as “Person in the crowd”.  Seriously guys, it is inspired, nuanced and heartfelt.

October 22, 2009, 9:10am  

Doug Aitken has a billboard up on La Cienega right now between Venice and Washington*.

*Don’t quote me on that last part. 

October 02, 2009, 5:51pm  

» 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.

September 23, 2009, 9:14am  

GPOYW-Stendhal’s Syndrome at Regen Projects-edition

September 16, 2009, 10:00am  

Smoking up the shoot.

September 15, 2009, 7:54pm  

Just hanging out, watching them do…stuff.

September 15, 2009, 7:37pm  

The beginning of a long, but worthwhile, evening.

September 15, 2009, 7:15pm  

Yesterday, I received an email from a self-proclaimed “main studio dude” for a certain artist saying, glad you had fun at the show, do you want to be an extra in the riot scene for his new film, we are shooting tomorrow.

Don’t worry guys, I totally played it cool, I think I only used 7 exclamation points in my return email. Really cool.

So, that is my plan for after work, go be a rioter in this film (whose main character is this guy, BTW) and just generally be awesome.*  If you see any random pictures on here later tonight, you can pretty much guarantee they were taken there.

*I added the last part, but I assumed it was implied.

September 15, 2009, 12:47pm  

Last night at Regen Projects 2, they had Doug Aitken’s film Migration on the outer walls.  It was incredible. 

September 13, 2009, 2:48pm