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5 unusual facts about Doug Aitken


Olivier Alary

Olivier has also composed music for several exhibitions at London's Victoria & Albert Museum; contributed to an installation by Doug Aitken at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; and has received an honorary mention at the Ars Electronica Festival for his project Chlorgeschlecht.

Philip Hays

His former student Doug Aitken wrote, “Hays’ work slid under the door of popular culture and affected it like sand falling in the cracks of a machine…the glamour of the subjects fade and their flaws and vulnerability appear…revealed is our beautiful disintegration as we’re faced with the inevitable race toward mortality.”

The Urxed

He played drums in the Boredoms' 88 Boadrum Los Angeles performance, and performed as part of the Doug Aitken-curated Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2010 benefit.

Live Score to Doug Aitken's "Migration" at Regen Progects, Los Angeles (2010) Newotherthing.org

Ysanne Spevack

In 2008, she played violin, viola and electric violin for visual artist Doug Aitken's work 'sleepwalkers'.



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Fondation Carmignac

Photography also forms an important part of the collection, with work by Andreas Gursky, Peter Lindbergh, Martin Parr, Doug Aitken, Chen Wei, Alex Prager, Nicola Costantino, Anne Deniau and Edgar Martins.