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19/9/2002

Doug Aitken

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

Interiors

The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) is pleased to present a new installation by the artist Doug Aitken in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum. This FWM exhibition is the world premier of Interiors (2002), a major new work by Aitken. Interiors will tour nationally.

Doug Aitken has emerged as a leader in the cinematic rethinking of traditional video and video installation art. Over the past two years, Aitken has collaborated with the FWM staff to create an installation of original videos projected onto a series of architectural fabric structures. This departure from the flat, bounded frame allows the artist to further complicate the traditional boundaries of narrative structure. Visitors will view the work by navigating through a complex installation of video projections. Interiors features a series of seemingly disparate filmic narratives, which are eventually joined through a fusion of visuals and sound. Featured characters move through vivid interior environments and exterior landscapes, including a Tokyo penthouse, an urban junkyard, and a Los Angeles helicopter factory.

This exhibition also includes a second work entitled Plateau (2002), a light box (52" x 10' x 14") with a composite image of a megalopolis of birdhouses assembled from FedEx boxes designed to resemble famous fascist architecture. Plateau is an edition of six and was created by Doug Aitken in collaboration with the FWM. It is also on view at 303 Gallery, New York.

A new publication by Doug Aitken in collaboration with the FWM accompanies this exhibition and includes text by Michael Speaks and Philippe Parreno as well as an interview with the artist by Russell Ferguson. Combining new, past and found material, this publication resists traditional notions of linearity by threading together a series of overlapping photographic sequences, visual narratives and texts. Central to this publication (and Aitken's current work) is the idea that the elements through which we define a world or by which we place ourselves are constantly in flux. This publication was designed by Associates in Science.

Recent work by Aitken includes new ocean, a major solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in the fall of 2001. Shot in locations such as the Arctic and Argentina, new ocean creates a topography of a world in constant change. Aitken received the International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale for electric earth (1999), a video installation of both dream and reality documenting the evening journey of a young man through the mechanical sounds of empty urban streets.

Doug Aitken in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Interiors, 2002, Production image

Doug Aitken was born in 1968 in Redondo Beach, California. He trained at the Art Center College of Design (BFA, 1991). He was awarded the International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2000. His work has been included in the 1997 and 2000 Whitney Biennials and the Biennale of Sydney in 2000. Aitken's single-channel and installation pieces have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2001); the Dallas Museum of Art (1999);Victoria Miro Gallery, London (1999); 303 Gallery, New York (1999, 1998, 1997 and 1994); and the Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (1998, 1996). Recent group exhibits include dAPERTutto, Venice Biennale (1999, Harald Szeeman curator); and Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1998, Francesco Bonami curator).

On view at The Fabric Workshop and Museum from September 20 - November 16, 2002, an opening reception will be held Friday, October 4, 2002 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. with lecture by the artist at 6:00 p.m.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum is the only contemporary art museum in the United States devoted to creating new work in fabric and other materials in collaboration with emerging and established artists from around the world. Founded in 1977, The Fabric Workshop and Museum has developed from an ambitious experiment to a renowned institution with a widely recognized residency program, an extensive collection of work by resident artists, in-house and touring exhibitions, and comprehensive educational programming that includes lectures, tours, in-school presentations, and student apprenticeships.

This project has been supported by a grant from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and administered by The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Major support was also provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The exhibition program of The Fabric Workshop and Museum is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, LLWW Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Independence Foundation, The Claneil Foundation, Philip Morris Companies, Arcadia Foundation, the Miller-Plummer Foundation, The Barra Foundation, and the Board of Directors and members of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. The Pew Charitable Trusts, among the nation's largest philanthropies, support nonprofit activities in culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy, and religion. Based in Philadelphia, the Trusts make strategic investments to encourage civic engagement in addressing critical issues and effecting social change.

For Press Information, contact Kathryn van Voorhees at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, 215.568.1111 or kathryn@fabricworkshopandmuseum.org

Image: Doug Aitken in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Interiors, 2002. Graphic treatment of production images by designer Conny Purtill.

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