Details

Subject(s)

• Aitken, Doug 1968-—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Installations (Art) [Browse]
• Video art [Browse]

Related name

• Fabric Workshop and Museum [Browse]
• Kunsthalle Zürich [Browse]

Summary note

A, B, C, D, E ... In this new, experimental volume of the work of artist Doug Aitken, the alphabet serves as an underlying organizational structure, a map which readers can turn to as a guide for moving through the book's images and texts. Combining a selection of new and older artwork alongside diverse texts, this book juxtaposes seemingly unrelated elements, creating shifting relationships and patterns that emerge only with time. On the visual side, the book offers a selection of past work, new photography, images from recent video pieces - such as "Interiors", "New Ocean" and "New Skin" - and a new series of collages. On the verbal side are an essay by noted architecture and design scholar Michael Speaks, excerpts from a conversation between Aitken and curator Russel Ferguson, a short story by artist Philippe Parreno, a series of short entries written by Aitken, and excerpts from a conversation between Aitken and Dan Kish, a blind man working at the Braille Institute on Los Angeles on echo location.

Notes

Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Doug Aitken: Interiors" (September 20 - January 11, 2003) at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia and "Doug Aitken" (June 15 - August 10, 2003) at the Kunsthalle Zürich.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Doug Aitken's temporal ecology of images / by Michael Speaks
• Underground man ; after a short story by Gabriel de Tarde / by Philippe Parreno.

Other title(s)

A-Z book (fractals)

ISBN

3775712917 (hd. bd.)

OCLC

52217085

RCP

H - S

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