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Aspen Art Museum will launch its new flagship initiative AIR on July 29, 2025, a program combining a public festival and private retreat focused on the intersections of art and technology. The inaugural edition features filmmaker Werner Herzog as a keynote speaker, alongside architect Francis Kéré and artist Maya Lin. Other participants include artist Matthew Barney, who will debut a new performance piece titled "TACTICAL parallax," as well as Paul Chan, Mimi Park, Jota Mombaça, Cannupa Hanska Luger, and the duo of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Rafiq Bhatia. The program includes site-specific art, dialogues, and conversations exploring themes such as ecstatic truth, artificial intelligence, and the origin of life.

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The article is a first-person diary of an art critic's trip to Aspen for ArtWeek, centered around Matthew Barney's performance "TACTICAL parallax" (2025) at the Aspen Art Museum. The author navigates travel delays, attends the dress rehearsal, and participates in a whirlwind of events including the Aspen Art Museum's AIR festival, a public conversation with artist Issy Wood, and dinners with art-world figures like MoMA board president Sarah Arison and artists Paul Chan and Aria Dean. The narrative weaves personal observations with the broader art scene in Aspen, touching on themes of the American West and contemporary art.

Aspen AIR Festival to Feature Lucy Raven, Camille Henrot, Los Thuthanaka, Morgan Bassichis, and More

The Aspen AIR Festival returns for its second edition from July 27-31 in Aspen, Colorado, featuring performances, exhibitions, and talks under the theme “Figures in a Landscape.” Returning artists include Matthew Barney, who will present sculptures related to his TACTICAL parallax performance, and Lucy Raven, who will show her film Murderers Bar with a new score by Deantoni Parks. New commissions include Camille Henrot’s operatic work Commedia dell’arte, a performance by Los Thuthanaka blending Andean sounds with electronics, and a piece by Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley originally created for the Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The festival also includes talks by Adrián Villar Rojas, Lyle Ashton Harris, Ivan Cheng, Morgan Bassichis, and a keynote by filmmaker Julie Dash.

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The inaugural AIR festival took place in Aspen as part of Aspen Art Week, featuring a mix of talks, performances, and a closed-door retreat for artists, writers, scientists, and theorists. Highlights included a pack of panting huskies, a psychoanalysis talk in a psychedelic chapel, an artist conversing with his AI doppelganger, and a whispery musical performance on a museum rooftop. The festival kicked off with a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul accompanied by composer Rafiq Bhatia, followed by discussions on dreaming and catastrophe, and site-responsive works by Jota Mombaça and Paul Chan.