We spent a lot of time in Ariel Pink’s personal space for this issue, delivering Turner Prize-winning artist and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans to his doorstep and shooting a separate series of warped video interviews in and around his L.A neighbourhood.
The series of shorts by Miles Wilkerson – a music video director and stereoscopic porn industry moonlighter we met when he was stripped down to his jocks and Teen Wolf-ing strangers at Coachella – confirm what we thought we knew. That Ariel Pink is cool enough to wear orthopaedic clogs in public.
We were getting to know Mr Pink between the blows and highs of his highly-publicised on-stage Coachella ‘meltdown’ and spectacular European tour. The absurdly intimate videos and sensitive portraits capture different sides of an artist tapping into his talent-keg and just generally keeping it surreal.
Or in Ariel’s words, “More than a shoot. More than a hoot. I left my wife for JUKE magazine.”
Video: Miles Wilkerson
JUKE Vol.03 TRAILER: MR PINK
ARIEL PINK by WOLFGANG TILLMANS