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LUMA Foundation extends Doug Aitken ALTERED EARTH. Arles, city of moving images exhibition

LUMA Foundation has extended it’s Doug Aitken ALTERED EARTH. Arles, city of moving images, exhibition to Sunday 2 December 2012.


Altered Earth © Doug Aitken Workshop and LUMA Foundation, Arles 2012. Photo Hervé Hôte.

The exhibition opened on 20 October with a performance by Californian composer Terry Riley. An unprecedented live, one-hour, performance merged experimental music and contemporary art within Aitken’s Altered Earth installation. Terry Riley had created an original composition, which was performed live one time only, offering a night of sound and vision.

You can watch a clip of the performance here.

The multimedia work, which Doug Aitken describes as a 21st-century Earthwork, is “a series of moments and fragments of time focusing on the geography of the Camargue, which provides an almost holographic view of the physical landscape.”

The installation ALTERED EARTH creates a form of liquid architecture out of large-scale moving images, which explore new definitions of time and place. Each viewer will be individually and uniquely constructing narratives from what surrounds them.

Developed by Meri Media, the app allows to explore multi-channel film, sound, literature and three-dimensional installation space, reflecting on our relation to geography in the digital age and creates a new kind of map. The application is free and can be downloaded at www.doug-aitken-arles.com.

Parc des Ateliers
Grande Halle
24 Avenue Victor Hugo
Arles, France
www.doug-aitken-arles.com