7 Quotes by Doug Aitken about art

  • Author Doug Aitken
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    One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

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    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.'

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  • Author Doug Aitken
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    '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.

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    We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

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    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.

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    We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

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    Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.

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