Doug Aitken is a prolific artist who makes videos, photographs and books. Jen and I went to go see his lecture and opening last night. It was great. He showed some of his videos and showed about a million slides. If I could go back in time, I would have asked him to talk more about his creative process.
The interiors installation at the Henry Art Gallery is really good. The video stars Andre 3000, some folks from a Japanese fishmarket, and a guy over at the Robinson helicopter plant near the harbor here in Seattle who can tap dance. The audio for the video is something special that builds intensity in the same way that intensity builds up when you are watching a building burn and waiting for it to collapse.
Also at the Henry was a little playthings exhibit that featured an amazing video by Peter Fischli and David Weiss out of Switzerland. In the video, tires, scraps of metal, consumables like soap and other odds and ends all transition in a brilliant exercise in cause and effect.
In other news, I got my dvd burner last night and now I can burn dvds of the art videos that I make.
I just saw this exhibit and I didn’t know that one part is in Seattle.