Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, the artist's first North American survey, at MOCA, Los Angeles

10 September 2016 - 15 January 2017

Electric Earth, Doug Aitken's first North American survey unfolds around  major moving-image installations that articulate his thematic interest in environmental and post-industrial decay, urban abandonment, and the exhaustion of linear time. 

Conceived as an entropic landscape suspended between city, broadcasting machine, and labyrinth, the exhibition is punctuated by the signs, sculptures, photographic images, and altered furniture – all unbound from vernacular language and culture –that Aitken has conceived over the years. 

Image: Installation view of Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, September 10, 2016 – January 15, 2017 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photo by Joshua White