Doug Aitken: turning perversity into an art form

His video works have a beginning, middle and end ... but not necessarily in that order. And now, with a mid-career retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles, Aitken is going to places he’s never been – for instance, under the seaIt’s not that mixed-media artist Doug Aitken disdains museums, but he often attempts to subvert them by transcending their walls. In 2007 his video Sleepwalkers played in a loop on the facade of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, while a later piece, Son