PATTERNS AND REPETITION

"Architects are given programs. They complain about that, but that's ultimately the only thing that keeps them alive."

Jacques Herzog

Jacques Herzog

"That pill, (the pop song) ... people don't get sick of that pill."

Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

"I don't notice the rhythm inside of me reflected in my work until a work is finished, and I am always surprised to see it."

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

"Repetition is all about rock-N-roll."

Dan Graham

Dan Graham

"A lot of cutting goes into our music, and the cutting allows us to develop patterns ... then suddenly interrupt them."

Lucky Dragons

Lucky Dragons

"Once you get in a groove, the audience is with you, and you can drive around to all kinds of places."

Blue Cheer

Blue Cheer

"Repetition is something deep in human experience, and it crops up again and again."

Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore

"Humans are rhythmic creatures ... we have a heart that beats, and our brains work in certain pulses—our blood pumps in certain rhythms, that's just how we're programmed."

Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley

"A simple idea repeated ... sometimes that's what makes great, exciting things. Having a dumb idea and seeing how desperately far you can go with it."

James Murphy

James Murphy

"Row, row, row your boat. That's a very powerful idea. I live on that idea."

Steve Reich

Steve Reich

"I want to live in all of America at once. Maybe that's what drives me to work the way I do."

Ryan Trecartin

Ryan Trecartin

"As you listened to the repetition of the sound it became a kind of landscape."

Terry Riley

Terry Riley

"Repetition involves movement, and any kind of movement is good, because it indicates progress."

Jack White

Jack White

"We are constantly repeating."

Fischli & Weiss

Thomas Demand

"You cannot do the same experiment twice because everything changes: you've changed, the environment's changed, the climate's changed."

Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand

"They talk about photographing and I say well, I think I'm photographing life today. You want to put it better, go ahead."

William Eggleston

William Eggleston
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Patterns & Repetition is a series of filmed conversations about creativity in the 21st Century in which the artist Doug Aitken conducts short candid conversations with ground-breaking pioneers in different artistic disciplines. Patterns & Repetition creates a fast, rhythmic, kaleidoscope of dialogs with the creative individuals who are shaping modern culture.


Conversations with:
Devendra Banhart, Jack White, James Murphy, Mike Kelley, Jacques Herzog, Ryan Trecartin, Lucky Dragons, Fischli & Weiss, Yayoi Kusama, Michael Nyman, Blue Cheer, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Stephen Shore, Dan Graham ...

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