Doug Aitken’s art train

DJ Dan Deacon.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Outgoing MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch at “Station to Station” in Los Angeles.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Patrons inside Kenneth Anger’s yurt-like structure fit with video screens.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Professional whip-cracker Chris Camp performs at the art and music event.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Swiss artist Urs Fischer’s nomadic yurt-shaped sculpture features a white interior, a soft mattress and mist from dry ice.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Flamenco dancers perform at “Station to Station.”  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

No Age guitarist Randy Randall, left, and drummer-vocalist Dean Allen Spunt at “Station to Station.”  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Guests dance while DJ Dan Deacon spins.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Doug Aitken’s roving, cross-country art show, “Station to Station: A Nomadic Happening,” arrives in Barstow on Tuesday.   (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Nate Cox hangs banners above the snack bar at Barstow’s Skyline Drive-In Theater.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

“Station to Station” stops in Barstow.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Crew members set up lights on at the Skyline Drive-In Theater in Barstow.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Artist Doug Aitken at his Venice, Calif., studio in June.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

“Station to Station” production coordinator Austin Meredith practices guitar in the media car of artist Doug Aitken’s traveling art project during a stop in Barstow.   (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Chapman and Maura Ambrose of Folk Fibers outside the makers’ yurt where artisans hand-make goods.   (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Laren Parker stands outside the “Station to Station” traveling art and music train in Barstow.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Olafur Eliasson creates artwork based on the train’s movement with his kinetic drawing machine.   (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Beck performs for a crowd of about 800, with train footage, shot by “Station to Station,” on a movie screen behind him.  (Deborah Vankin / Los Angeles Times)

Video artist Doug Aitken films Beck while he performs.  (Deborah Vankin / Los Angeles Times)

The choir, led by Fred Martin, prepares to go on stage and accompany Beck.   (Deborah Vankin / Los Angeles Times)

The Levi’s yurt at the Barstow happening.  (Deborah Vankin / Los Angeles Times)