ioio » Doug Aitken http://i-o-i-o.com for whats good Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:15:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Doug Aitken: Migration (Empire) http://i-o-i-o.com/2009/08/05/doug-aitken-migration-empire/ http://i-o-i-o.com/2009/08/05/doug-aitken-migration-empire/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:59:05 +0000 Brandon http://i-o-i-o.com/?p=149 dougaitkenbird

If anyone should happen to be in St. Louis before September 19th

and that anyone should happen to be in Forest Park near the Art Museum–

then that someone should walk into the Art Museum and check out the latest video installation from Doug Aitken.

What you see: Wild animals enter or appear in various hotel rooms set free to do whatever they wish in the space. Some sit, others sniff, and some tare the place apart. Runtime: 18 minutes

This description doesn’t do the film justice. (no descriptions on this site will) But it’s quite good. There’s an excellent ambient soundtrack from some great artists.

If you like Mathew Barney then you’ll definitely like this. But even if you’ve never  seen a piece of video art in your life you’ll enjoy this.

Here’s some of Doug’s earlier work projected at MoMA:

and a music video he Directed for LCD Soundsystem:

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