I’m really pleased to share the ‘Station to Station’ film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it’s made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it’s a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it’s this amazing modern kaleidoscope. Doug Aitken Read Quote
Station to Station’ came out of a sense of urgency – a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. Doug Aitken Read Quote
Planet Caravan’ by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place. Doug Aitken Read Quote
Station to Station’ is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don’t know precisely what’s going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture. Doug Aitken Read Quote
I think that ‘Station to Station’ is a nomadic project not only in a literal sense, as it’s traveling by train from place to place. Some of these places are New York City or Los Angeles, but some of these places are rather off-the-grid places. Doug Aitken Read Quote
We’re moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there’s another landscape that’s constantly changing – something like a cloud – of communication, information, exchange and commerce. Doug Aitken Read Quote
I’m really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion – that sense you find when you’re traveling. Doug Aitken Read Quote
I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the ‘now.’ Doug Aitken Read Quote
We’re living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories. Doug Aitken Read Quote
There’s really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in. Doug Aitken Read Quote
