Doug Aitken is an artist that works with sculpture, installation and video art. He is fascinated with the urban lifestyle and the many stories it contains through the great number of people living in such a compacted area. He describes it best when he said : " So your walking down an urban street alone, it's late at night, and your feeling isolated, but meanwhile passing through you are the signals of millions of phone calls, intimate conversations, radio waves, music, news, beats of information" does it somehow connect with your pulse?I think the city is a kind of a broken story." 'Sleepwalkers' is a good example of this idea of the isolation in a densely populated place. The daily activities of five average city inhabitants are projected onto city buildings, all of their activities are in sync with each other which unifies them though they are very distanced people. By giving voices to these 'insignificant' people a narrative about modern urban life is created.
Plateau 2002Plateau refers to the idea of the “meta-city.” The arrangement of corporate logos tells the story of modern urban lifestyle in the cardboard city that is chaotic, sanitized, and anonymous.
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