If You Happen To Be In Liverpool

Click the image above for more information on the exhibition. In case you cannot make it there in person, click the link below to see Doug Aitken’s films:

Tate Liverpool: Exhibition 15 September 2012 – 13 January 2013. Films from Doug Aitken – The Source will be published in the Channel each week…
What is the source of a creative idea? Celebrated cultural figures discuss the root of their creativity with leading contemporary artist Doug Aitken…
…Aitken presents a series of filmed conversations with well-known cultural figures, exploring the essence of their creative process.
And why bother?  Because he’s been around more than one block, and can channel ideas worth hearing in these conversations with other thinkers, designers, artists and architects; as we might have guessed from the bio on his website:

Doug Aitken was born in California in 1968. He lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. Widely known for his innovative fine art installations, Doug Aitken is at the forefront of 21st century communication. Utilizing a wide array of media and artistic approaches, his eye leads us into a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts.

Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, and installations. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He participated in the Whitney Biennial 1997 and 2000 and earned the International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999 for the installation “electric earth”.

Aitken’s “Sleepwalkers” exhibition at MoMA in 2007 transformed an entire block of Manhattan into an expansive cinematic experience as he covered the museum’s exteriors walls with projections. In 2009, his Sonic Pavilion opened to the public in the forested hills of Brazil at the new cultural foundation INHOTIM. Continuing his work in innovative outdoor projects, Aitken presented his large-scale film and architecture installation, “Frontier”, on Rome’s Isola Tiberina in November 2009 and at Art Basel Unlimited in 2010. Recently, Aitken’s multiform artwork “Black Mirror” engaged a site-specific multi-channel video installation and a live theatre performance on a uniquely designed barge floating off Athens and Hydra Island, Greece.

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