Documented artwork / touring aerial installation and live-event series
New Horizon
Credit as documented: Doug Aitken
New Horizon is Doug Aitken’s traveling artwork built around a reflective hot-air balloon and its gondola. Its Massachusetts journey in July 2019 brought together aerial movement, temporary landings and live gatherings at Trustees properties. The host describes each landing as a place for conversation, music and ideas, making the project both a physical artwork and a sequence of events. The published itinerary began at Long Point Wildlife Refuge on Martha’s Vineyard on July 12, included the Crane Estate in Ipswich, and ended in the Berkshires on July 28. Installation photographs also document a stop at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. These are historical presentations of the 2019 project; the record does not describe a currently bookable balloon event or an available touring package.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2019
- Materials
- Not documented
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- Not documented
- Dimensions apply to
- Not documented
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
July 12, 2019 (first stop)
Long Point Wildlife Refuge, West Tisbury, Massachusetts
- Site
- Long Point Wildlife Refuge
- City
- West Tisbury
- State / region
- MA
- Country
- United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
- Historical siting
- touring
- Setting
- outdoor
- Start date
- 2019-07-12
- Date meaning
- documented
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
July 2019
Crane Estate, Ipswich, Massachusetts
- Site
- Crane Estate
- City
- Ipswich
- State / region
- MA
- Country
- United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
- Historical siting
- touring
- Setting
- outdoor
- Start year
- 2019
- Date meaning
- documented
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
2019 (installation photograph caption)
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Massachusetts
- Site
- deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
- State / region
- MA
- Country
- United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
- Historical siting
- touring
- Setting
- outdoor
- Start year
- 2019
- Date meaning
- documented
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
The host identifies a reflective balloon and gondola but supplies no material specification, dimensions, load data or current operating arrangement.
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Sources
- thetrustees.org ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17