Part of artist Doug Aitken’s The Source series of art conversations, the artist speaks with Liz Glynn, talking about the artist’s approach to her immersive environments. “I think about functioning as somewhere between an architect and a scientist,” she says. “So I create the space and set up an experiment, but then I get out of the way and sort of see what happens.” (more…)
Image: Doug Aitken, Tilda Swinton in The Source, 2012, via Sky Arts Ignition
American artist Doug Aitken has his first public installation in the UK entitled The Source, which asks a variety of leading arts practitioners questions about where their creative ideas come from. Viewers can watch video conversations with artists such as Tilda Swinton, Jack Pierson, Jack White, and Mike Kelley, projected inside a temporary structure on Liverpool’s historic Albert Dock built in collaboration with renowned British architect David Adjaye.
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Sophie Hastings of the Financial Times profiles Doug Aitken, “a champion of non-linear art.” His exhibition, “The Source,” will be opening at the Tate Liverpool on September 15th.
