Article: Daniel Birnbaum.(Brief Article)

1 Doug Aitken (Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich) With the five-screen installation I Am in You, the final bodily paroxysms of Electric Earth, 1999--arguably the most memorable work in this year's Whitney Biennial-have disappeared. In its place we enter a harmonious world of divine geometry, children's plays, and piano music. A young girl whispers: "You can't stop. You can't stop." Bodies fall though space, airliners are sucked into some vortexlike vanishing point at incredible speeds. Everything seems to float freely in circles, like some hallucinated eternal recurrence. Whatever tries to escape this finite cosmos is pulled back by a ruthless gravity--even ...

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