Doug Aitken's 'Electric Earth' will shake the MOCA landscape. By Deborah Vankin.
Doug Aitken settles in around a long dining table at his Venice studio, coddling a cup of hot herbal tea. The artist is having a rare down day just weeks before the opening of his exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Classical music flows through the sun-filled space, which feels surprisingly more like a cozy, two-bedroom apartment than a prolific ideas lab for contemporary art.
He picks up a fuzzy-tipped drumstick and taps lightly on the African hardwood dining table that he made, which — surprise — doubles as a musical instrument and “social sculpture,” as he calls it. It’s airy-sounding at the head, deep and bass-y closer to the middle...
August 26 2016
