Rhea Anastas

Being the Opposite

We can discuss Orchard as a possible answer to the question about collective and critical art practice today. Establishing a space for different relations between art and the social is political in my understanding. I am not saying that this is the only way in which the political needs to be enacted, but it is one possibility, and Orchard was a concrete and functioning example. Ulrike Müller, in “An Idea-Driven Social Space,” by Andrea Geyer and Ulrike Müller, Grey Room 35, Spring 2009

Adam Lerner

Why Does Fred Sandback’s Work Make Me Want to Be Ridiculous?

Sandback was willing to risk his sculptures being nothing at all, and so he was able to create works of art that feel relevant to everything. Adam Lerner on Fred Sandback

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Doug Aitken: Electric Earth May 28 - August 20, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 1, 2017 

Fort Worth, TX

SONG 1 (still)

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Doug Aitken, SONG 1 (still), 2012, outdoor video installation on 360-degree facade of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, seven-channel composite video (color, sound), 11 projections forming one screen, 34:44 minutes/loop, 50 × 725 ft. circumference (15.2 × 220.9 m circumference), commissioned, with generous production support, by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Black Mirror

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Installation view of Doug Aitken, Black Mirror, 2011, at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, July 9­–September 27, 2015, photo by Norbert Miguletz

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