Off the Rails with Station to Station pt VII: Home… but not yet “Home”

Memoirs from the train on Doug Aitken’s Station to Station tour.  Originally published via Art Nerd Los Angeles. Thursday, September 26th Los Angeles Union Station We (some of us) were home… but yet not “home”.   We had one more Happening to produce in Oakland.  By this time we had crossed the country with ourContinue reading “Off the Rails with Station to Station pt VII: Home… but not yet “Home””

Off the Rails with Station to Station, part IV: Union Station Happening

Memoirs from the train… on Doug Aitken’s Station to Station tour.  Originally published via Art Nerd Chicago. Tuesday, September 10th Chicago Union Station  It was hot in Chicago – a typical humid, Midwestern scorcher.  We loaded up on green juice and got settled into the production office.  White Mystery and The Black Monks of Mississippi joinedContinue reading “Off the Rails with Station to Station, part IV: Union Station Happening”

Off the Rails with Station to Station, part III: Rolling Toward the Midwest

Memoirs from the train… on Doug Aitken’s Station to Station tour.  Originally published via Art Nerd Chicago. Pittsburgh > Chicago En route to Chicago, Thurston Moore and John Moloney hit the recording car and I witnessed the morning “ball drop” for Olafur Eliasson’s genius kinetic drawing machine, which tracked our journey across the US by wayContinue reading “Off the Rails with Station to Station, part III: Rolling Toward the Midwest”