courtesy: 303 Gallery, New York
i am in you
| Artist | Doug AITKEN |
|---|---|
| Year | 2000 |
| Material/ Technique | five-channel video installation and environment |
| Size/ Duration | approx. H400 × W860 × D1600cm (interior dims.), 11min. loop |
| Copyright Notice | © Doug AITKEN |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2001（作品購入年月日：2001/3/31） |
| Description | Born in Redondo Beach, USA in 1968. Lives and works in Los Angeles. Doug Aitken worked as a video creator making music videos for the likes of Iggy POP and Fatboy Slim before venturing into the world of photography and video installations. He was awarded the International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999 for "electric earth", in which scenes showing electricity from various sources, including neon signs and coin laundries, transmitting through and resonating with the body of a youth walking through the city at night are projected onto eight screens. In 2007 he unveiled "sleepwalkers", which documents a day in the life of five individuals using eight projections, this time displayed on the exterior walls of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Aitken skillfully combines sound and fragments of images of wastelands, cities, and human gestures in an attempt to capture the state of mind of the hectic, fragmented modern individual. An installation consisting of video projections on five screens. Amid the everyday scenery of America’s suburbs, people (a girl, hands), nature (sky, water), manmade objects (trailers, airports, game consoles), and geometrical patterns (cat’s cradles, patterns drawn with templates) appear one after another. These images deftly overlap in time with the rhythm of handclapping and the voice of a girl whispering lines such as “I like to see and look” and “You can’t stop,” and the viewer finds themselves drawn into the flow of the hallucination-like series of images. As the images, which fragment without any clear outline forming in the narrative, are repeated over and over again, the audience experiences physically the power and speed of their ungraspable state of flux. As well, because they view the work on multiple screens, the audience is made to move around and become physically aware of floating in the void at the vortex of the visuals and sound. |
NOTES
This Collection Data page contains the works and materials in the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as of April 1, 2018.
Artists are listed alphabetically by artist’s surname.
Works and materials by the same artists are listed according to the date of the work in principle.
Works whose dates are unidentified are listed at the end of each item. Some works are not listed according to the date of work due to their relations.
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