Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
art break came create creators empowering less nomadic urgency
'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.
burning falling feed life
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
embracing friction seen
Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
delicate sabbath surprising
'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.
across aspects happening layers precisely series time
'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture.
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My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
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The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
art engaging forms presented
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.
simple ideas used
I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.
interesting design sound
In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them
views indecisive moments
I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.
choices bases mediums
When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.
above changing constantly era exchange floating geographic physical
We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.
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The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.