Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers, Documentation of the exhibition

February 28th, 2010 by admin

Documentation of the exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, January 16-February 12, 2007. A joint project of MoMA and Creative Time.

Images provided by 303 Gallery, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Regen Projects, Los Angeles

For more information on the exhibition, please visit http://www.moma.org/aitken.

© 2007 Doug Aitken

Duration : 0:14:13


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22 Responses to “Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers, Documentation of the exhibition”

  1. N8wood1 Says:

    i am an artist. so …
    i am an artist. so if you like art you should check out my video.

  2. enelvideo Says:

    so poetic!
    so poetic!

  3. vjthai Says:

    beautiful

    _*_
    beautiful

    _*_

  4. crackingthecodes Says:

    todays poetry… …
    todays poetry… simply great…!

  5. patkinsonmo Says:

    He works with …
    He works with several musicans in LA where he is based. We just installed his work ‘Migration’ at a museum and asked the same question to his representative.

  6. jclarencelove3rd Says:

    Doug wrote it …
    Doug wrote it himself…

  7. horsewolf Says:

    anyone know who did …
    anyone know who did the music for this?

  8. mmammola1021 Says:

    xpez…you make an …
    xpez…you make an interesting point vis-a- vis “banal and mundane imagery” but I think that the genius of this piece is that it’s voyeuristic nature appeals to a deeper sense of self.

  9. nickostranierodotcom Says:

    great artist great …
    great artist great videoinstallation..wish i was there. music add a lot to this documentation.. that by itself is an artwork.

  10. treewhore Says:

    strives and …
    strives and succeeds.

  11. treewhore Says:

    how nice to see a …
    how nice to see a document of an art work that strives to be an art work itself.

  12. midgetsx Says:

    love doug aiken and …
    love doug aiken and this music? anyone know who the composer is?

  13. wyllieohagan Says:

    Interesting …
    Interesting comments here. The extraordinary qualities and scale of the canvases offered here for this work compels viewers to engage with the work.

    What an artist applies to a canvas is always open to critique and debate.

    We applaud Doug Aitken for this innovative lyrical work and MOMA and Creative Time for curating it.

  14. worldonfire22 Says:

    this is so …
    this is so beautiful, i wish i could have watched from outside.

  15. goddamnyou Says:

    does anyone know …
    does anyone know who wrote the musical piece? I really like the music.

  16. kukybailly Says:

    poetic, inspiring…
    poetic, inspiring…

  17. LorenzoNW Says:

    So are you implying …
    So are you implying that the context is a Band-Aid for weak imagery or are you implying that the context presents the banal and mundane in a new light…or both?

  18. stuf2007 Says:

    Yep, i agree ;P
    Yep, i agree ;P

  19. igmarenoir Says:

    great
    I wish I was …

    great
    I wish I was there

  20. xpez Says:

    the spectacle of …
    the spectacle of giant screened video will always be seductive. With that in mind even the most banal and mundane imagery will be interesting, simply because of the context.

  21. dw235 Says:

    Brilliant. Thank …
    Brilliant. Thank you.

  22. rycaut Says:

    I just missed …
    I just missed seeing this in NYC live, seeing this video, I really regret not seeing it in person. This is where video art should be going. Immersive, site specific, haunting and engaged in a conversation even without words with images that create what must have been many different experiences depending on your perspectives and interaction with the piece.