Doug Aitken

Black Mirror, the new video-performance by the American visual artist Doug Aitken, is presented for the first time in Greece, in a collaboration of the DESTE Foundation with the Athens Festival. In the format of a video projection and a play which unfold simultaneously on a ship, Black Mirror is, according to Aitken himself, a simple allegory on the dark aspects of peoples' lives' in the beginning of the 21st century.  '...a parallel world where the globalised market, the influence of digital culture and the dependence on mass media, in synergy with the daily lives of diverse people around the globe, create a fragile reality, in which everything moves with lighting speed and nothing is what it appears to be...

 

The presentation of Doug Aitkens Black Mirror is in two parts:

• The exhibition, a production of the DESTE Institute for Contemporary Art, which will be presented on the island of Hydra (Slaughterhouse Hydras, 20 June – 25 September).
• The performance, produced by the Athens Festival in association with the DESTE Institute, which will be presented at the Port of Piraeus (16-17 June) and on Hydra (19-20 June).