Over the course of three weeks in September 2013, a
train traveled from New York City to San Francisco, making nine stops at train
stations across the country. So to hear, nothing spectacular, but what if this
train contained work of leading figures and underground creators from the
worlds of art, music, food, literature, and film for a series of cultural interventions
and site-specific happenings?
The train, designed as a moving, kinetic light
sculpture, broadcasted unique content and experiences to a global audience. The
name of this project? Station to station. The initiator? Artist
Doug Aitken and made possible by Levi's.
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| ©Station to Station art project by Doug Aitken and Levi's. |
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©Station to Station art project by Doug Aitken and Levi's.
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| Doug Aitkin |
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| ©Station to Station art project by Doug Aitken and Levi's. |
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| ©Station to Station art project by Doug Aitken and Levi's. |
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| ©Station to Station_ twitter typewritter for live tweets from the train. |
From September 6 to 28, artists and musicians
traveled across the US on the nine-car train, performing and sharing footage of
their journey online. At 10 locations - New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago,
Minneapolis & St Paul, Kansas City, Santa Fe, Winslow, Barstow, LA and
Oakland - the train stopped for a night of music, dance, short films and art
installations open to the public for $25 a ticket.
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| Brian Doyle courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York |
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| Brian Doyle courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York |
The launch event at New York and the closing event in Oakland ended with a multi-coloured smoke installation by Swiss artist Olaf Breuning.
Station to station was an ambitious project and was supported by an impressive digital campaign: the Station to Station site
combines official footage with tweets and comments submitted by the public and
was updated throughout the three-week journey, while Make our Mark encourages
creative expression via social media in response to questions such as ‘Who are
you?’, ‘What moves you?’ and ‘What’s your dream?’
Great initiative, great footage!
Check it out.
And, guys from Levi's, this could also work fantastic
for a tour in Europe, in 10 well selected cities!
Be welcome!
The Station to Station Cultural
Fund enables artists of all disciplines to produce significant new work
that advances public understanding of creative expression and introduces new
definitions of art and culture to a global audience.
Currently, the Fund supports nine
museums and institutional partners: MoMA PS1, Carnegie Museum of Art,
the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Walker Art Center, SITE Santa Fe, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(SFMOMA), the Sundance Institute, and Arcosanti Institute.
