Director
Doug Aitken
Producer
Arts & Sciences in association with Doug Aitken Workshop
Station to Station is a living project exploring modern creativity. The project first crossed North America by train, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, over 23 days in September 2013. Over the course of the journey, a constantly changing group of creative contributors joined and took part in ten events in major cities and off-the-grid locations. What began as a train journey has evolved into a platform for non-commercial creativity and cross-collaboration between different mediums.
The Station to Station feature film is a high-speed road trip through modern creativity comprised of 62 one-minute films. The film screened in theaters and premiered @ The Sundance Film Festival New Frontiers Program.
"Doug Aitken has always had big ideas, but none have been bigger than his current undertaking: a mobile art and culture showcase that will journey from America's east to west coasts. Named 'Station to Station', the mobile art experiment takes the shape of a train that will serve as an incubator for artists, musicians and cultural icons to create new, site-specific material while making nine city stops across the country over the course of three weeks this September."
- Wallpaper
"Winding its way west from New York through plains, mountains and desert, artist Doug Aitken's epic “nomadic happening” hauled a dazzling array of creative talent across America, on a train that glinted silver by day and flashed disco lights through the night, Aitken’s movable cultural feast rolled towards the Pacific, sporadically stopping en route to spill out its cargo of musicians, artists, photographers, poets, chefs and filmmakers, for one-off events that challenged the slowness and rootedness of traditional art institutions….His brainchild fueled an explosion of spontaneous happenings and collaborations, from UFO-sightings to movable sculptures, musical performances from the likes of Ariel Pink, Patti Smith and Thurston Moore, and even a recipe for cactus omelette from artist Ed Ruscha. The train had already made stops at Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, Santa Fe and Winslow before Dazed climbed on board in the small town of Barstow, in the Mojave desert."
- Dazed
