Interview with Doug Aitken
By Sophie von Wunster
Portrait of
Doug Aitken was born in 1968 in Los Angeles, where he is currently based. The artist and filmmaker has broken the boundaries of genres, exploring every medium from film and installations to architectural interventions, to investigate the spatial and temporal dislocation of images and the vulnerability of individuals in a period of massive industrial and environmental change. In 2012, he began a series of filmed conversations—a “living artwork”—known as "The Source," which sees him interviewing renowned cultural figures such as French artist Philippe Parreno, British actress Tilda Swinton and Italian-American architect Paolo Soleri about creativity in the 21st century. He has been featured in numerous exhibitions at institutions including New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art; the Vienna Secession; the Serpentine Gallery in London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
