NEW DATE: Faculty Panel | Perspectives on Doug Aitken’s migration (empire)

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NEW DATE: Faculty Panel | Perspectives on Doug Aitken’s migration (empire)

Monday, November 13, 2023 @ 5:30 pm

Location

Forum, Lewis Arts Complex

Join Princeton scholars from the arts and humanities for an interdisciplinary discussion of the video installation migration (empire) by Doug Aitken, now screening daily on the north lawn of the Lewis Arts complex. Panelists will speak about the video work from their distinct scholarly perspectives, underscoring how different forms of knowledge can inform and help shape our perception.

Panelists: 

  • Jeffrey Whetstone, Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts and associated faculty at the High Meadows Environmental Institute 

Moderated by Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art and associated faculty at the High Meadows Environmental Institute. This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. 

Reception to follow. 

This installation of Doug Aitken’s migration (empire) is made possible in part by Peter M. Ochs, Class of 1965, and Gail Ochs and Rachelle Belfer Malkin, Class of 1986, and Anthony E. Malkin, with cosponsorship provided by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. 

An owl sitting on a bed with feathers floating down around it with a lit lamp on the right side.
Doug Aitken, migration (empire), 2008. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Doug Aitken. Courtesy of the artist; 303 Gallery, NY; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Victoria Miro, London; Regen Proj, LA