Doug Aitken Frontier 2009
You have to skip to about 1 minute to get to the actual video part, and the editing isn’t what I would have chosen, but it’s fun to see something that I was a part of in finality.
hyde or die
Does the BP spill (or any disaster) effect how you view art?
Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City says that the BP disaster has changed her view of a sculpture from 2007.
Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes can’t help but think of the humans interfering with nature when ruminating on the the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ recent acquisition of Doug Aitken’s film Migration.
Both of these stories reminds me of something I heard last week about Nancy Rubins. Before this most recent show currently up at Gagosian Gallery here in Beverly Hills her last gallery showing was to be in New York. The show was of sculptures she had made using parts of planes. The date of the opening? September 11, 2001. Needless to say, the show never opened… and Rubins hasn’t worked with plane parts since. What was once a beautiful sculpture investigating space and construction became forever tainted with the most horrible of tragedies and frightening coincidence.
It seems inevitable that personal experience will always alter the audience’s perception of the piece and when the collective audience is experiencing the event as a whole, it changes the way the piece will be seen. Very interesting.
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.
Doug Aitken has a billboard up on La Cienega right now between Venice and Washington*.
*Don’t quote me on that last part.
» 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.
