Doug Aitken: Regen Projects.

What if you crossed a nonlinear, multi-screen video installation with a hall of mirrors? An unlikely question, perhaps, but one to which Doug Aitken's the moment, 2005, provides an answer. The centerpiece of Aitken's first hometown solo show, the work also reflects his rewarding tendency to engage the formal and metaphorical possibilities of presentation and context as he does the particulars of sound, imagery, and editing.

This broad-based curiosity dovetails with other questions: How might one make a work that appears simultaneously linear and nonlinear, imbued with feelings of ...

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