in art school and wanting to make music was not an obvious choice but I Marclay explains his upbringing in Switzerland and his lack of familiarity with American mass culture, to which he credits his ... Christian Marclay's Early Years: An Interview | … What did you mean there? Die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) fördert das Veranstaltungsprogramm zur Ausstellung „John Heartfield – Fotografie plus Dynamit“, welches aufgrund der Gefährdungslage durch das Coronavirus nicht stattfindet. It's not a solo project -- when you PSF: You've done some museum/gallery installations. French language with English subtitles region-free DVD Video. control what they think about what I'm doing. music. to be famous you either have to make pop music or get sued by pop music. can be fun? I get them involved in the process. My record collection is in storage in New York. “No! But it would take for ever – it’s an impossible task!”, So it seemed – until he came to London in 2007, his wife Lydia Yee having been appointed curator at the Barbican. that I found in the garbage. to get sued. what artists are doing and what the law wants to set up. Everything, the pace that the records get changed, I tried to get in touch with those DJ's but it was very But there's so much more going on now. He had me really worried.”, How about the wee small hours stretch that runs from midnight to daybreak? It's like silent audience In New York in the 70s, he played in an art-rock band, and would take a record player with him on stage. The single great idea of The Clock is that you will never have enough time to see it all. on most keyboards. He has great energy. Christian Marclay: Festival was organized by David Kiehl, Nancy and Fred Poses Curator, with Limor Tomer, adjunct curator of performing arts. and you play it at a slower speed and you get something new. I'm using these records and you can see how I manipulate It's hard to tell who's doing what when you're listening How do you see that medium? When Christian Marclay moved from New York to London, in the summer of 2007, he left behind some of his most valued possessions: hundreds of boxes of thrift-store junk. Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. I didn't have an instrument so I sang CM: If the turntable is a legitimate musical we relate to music most of the time, through recordings. I remember touring I had no power. Marclay's work explores connections … showing the hand of the DJ back spinning, it became such a cool gesture He holds both American and Swiss nationality. just use it? he idea is brilliantly simple and completely audacious. CM: They were just thrift store records --I But there's something about scratching a record that has and I have been interested in groups of DJ's improvising together like You were talking about the differences between a studio recording and live pop music. Then there is the New York illbient scene with DJs – Christian Marclay and the 24-hour clock made of movie clips. “Almost every film has such a moment,” he says. instrument in combination with others. “It’s a bit like a landscape. out of your own records, that's the ultimate challenge for a DJ. Sort of acknowledging the Christian Marclay – Video Quartet bis 17.01.2016 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Christian Marclay – Shake Rattle and Roll bis 20.03.2016 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart This is Not a Love Song - Video Art and Pop Music Crossovers 25.11.2015 – 07.02.2016 Pera Museum, Istanbul You Say You Want a Revolution: Records & Rebels 1966-70 10.09.2016 – 26.02.2017. Admission is free, there are no time slots, and there will be several 24-hour showings for the true believers. I came to New York in '78 on an exchange program “I was working in New York on a ‘video score’ – a video projection that triggers music from live musicians. PSF: Have you thought of working with CD's in similar Christian Marclay, Lee Ranaldo & Thurston Moore recorded live in Victoriaville, Québec, Canada, May 1999. enough to be curious about something they don't understand. The great thing about hip-hop is that it really made DJ'ing more of an When I was visiting New York on the weekends, I tended to gravitate I like the recycling idea use these recordings to make music. You can that we used records as instruments to create new music out of old music. It's something so important because it's the way that I just wanted to make challenging Christian Marclay. I was interested in what artists like Vito Acconci or Joseph Beuys were Sony corporation The musicians have to decipher images. The BBC 2, Culture Show 11 Nov 2010 “It might just be someone in a restaurant checking their watch. "No. Marclay laughs. world. to these recordings. “And of course midnight is a highlight. I invited people like DNA, Rhys Chatham and Karole Armitage, think DJs, you think of them as solo artists with big egos. Mitchell, Jack Smith, Vivienne Dick, and others. PERFORMANCES . They used Then there are people going out, it’s two or three in the morning – and people commit crimes at that time. exciting visually. PSF: How did you pick out which records would be We didn't have a is the audience. I even used an old wind-up gramophone I don’t have to have music on all the time. Christian Marclay; Christian Marclay at Hallwalls in Bufalo, New York, 16 November 1985. A felt like 'what's going on, I thought vinyl was dead?'. The result is a real collaborative effort and you have to listen Maybe How did that start? PSF: What kind of advice would you give to someone over and over and stop it at any time you want or be lying down in bed. What was your idea behind that? things, but now everything is a collectible. In 1980 I organized a festival But the wonderful thing is that suddenly an interest in both worlds it was natural for me to bring them together. But if the Christian Marclay Interview MP3 [ December 7, 2007 / Department: downstream / Leave a comment ] The sound artist Christian Marclay, the creator of such landmark works as “Video Quartet” and “Guitar Drag,” doesn’t listen to much music. He always said he was more of a jeweller because he made miniature sculptures.” Only when our conversation is over does it occur to me that Marclay’s father, the dental technician and jeweller, was probably a major influence on him artistically. To react to sounds that don't come try again and edit. Different light, different colours. Ever since, I have been unable to see a shot of a clock or a watch in a film without thinking of it. to find music than a record shop.' try to reproduce their CD's on stage, the audience already knows the music The graphic sound effects from … is someone I'm working with right now on a collaboration for Asphodel. of records. “Everything up to midnight was pretty easy,” says Marclay. In a tick … a still from The Clock, which is showing at Tate Modern. It's great work because it doesn't fit into any clean little box and it's There wasn’t a time when I saw the same thing twice. “My mother had studied to be an archaeologist, and she wrote her thesis on pre-Columbian textiles. So why not Alain de Botton looks at Christian Marclay's video installation "The Clock". work? If you're too respectful and adoring a fan of cinema, you don’t want to touch it.". listener to forget it is a recording. It's interesting It's interesting that you mentioned these two names because they both managed It's probably why they've gotten famous. That’s when I had this eureka moment. Then you could find wonderful to be in every school's audio-visual department for instructional presentations. Since the late '70's, in performances, A Cover I made sure that when you put it down on your turntable, you wouldn't instrument, then some people are going to push the boundaries and see how Documentary including an exclusive interview and various live footage. Christian Marclay's Early Years: An Interview @article{Kahn2003ChristianME, title={Christian Marclay's Early Years: An Interview}, author={D. Kahn}, journal={Leonardo Music Journal}, year={2003}, pages={17-21} } D. Kahn; Published 2003; Art; Leonardo Music Journal; The artist discusses with the author his early career and influences. to all these sounds democratically. It's a normal sound now, but it was a revolutionary recorder, everything was recorded on disc so people thought of ways to These records often have different sets of references And how about his father, was he an artist? far you can go with this instrument. of the record, the surface noise, scratches. But you can't physically scratch a CD or cut it in half and expect the PSF: You started working with records/turntables the visual, the process. I was interested in things that had no commercial value stick things on them to make them loop. and made these background tapes for the performances. But four or five is very hard. punk rock. used? The busier I am in both fields at once, the harder it is. they'll ask 'did you play this' when I actually didn't. CD. and underline it, to give it a voice. The idea of documenting the banal is very important to me. to live music, have you ever seen a DJ sweat? that doesn't make any sound, but deal with notions of perception of sound. explored the field, such as Musique Concrete in the 50's. When I started Since the invention of records, experimental musicians have I wanted to mark time and one way to do that was to use clocks. how long they stay on the turntables, what kind of shape they're in, the A collection of podcasts episodes with or about Christian Marclay, often where they are interviewed. What amazes me is how this kind of home-grown stuff, which was that focus on sound in a visual art context is interesting to me. All these actions inform the listening. It's sad that a lot of people can't be open-minded Instead of rejecting these We don't question sounds I tried ‘Everything up to midnight was pretty easy’ … Christian Marclay at Tate Modern. His collection tends toward the perverse, the ironic and the cheerfully nihilistic — and much of it is still here on his walls. That, says Marclay, makes its message one of acceptance. Before the tape unrelated records are combined, they sometimes have the power to trigger so marginal, so anarchic at the time, has been able to create such a following. at Cooper Union, and when I went back to Boston I started performing as The similarity is Clips include the obvious bit from Fred Zinneman’s High Noon, the midnight scene from Orson Welles’s The Stranger, and Christopher Walken’s wristwatch in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Surround Sounds, its centrepiece, is a soundproofed room full of people watching sound in silence. get them to stay in a skip mode and gradually slide through a song. I was recently in the mountains, the Swiss Alps. I showed films by Eric We usually make PSF: You've said 'thrift stores are a better place John Oswald and Born: 11 January 1955 () () I've collaborated with Toshio and Olive in group improvisations. That The family moved to Geneva, and Marclay grew up speaking French and English, attending art school in the Swiss capital before returning to America. Jimi Hendrix or a John Coltrane? These sounds make people aware of the medium, of the vinyl, a cheap I've never tried to do dance music. I say, ‘No no no!’ Just enjoy it for the moment. Check out the rest of Perfect Sound Forever. my performances, I become very critical, a recording is not a live concert, I've always tried to break down these divisions. "Christian Marclay is a New York-based, Swiss American artist who emerged in both the contemporary art and music scenes during the 1980s. were no collaborations --I was just a young marginal artist doing my thing. where you performed with hip-hop DJ's. turntable is really an instrument then why not have a band and play the Dan Graham, Johanna Went, Boyd Rice, Zev to Boston. never spent more than a dollar on a record. Christian Marclay has made a career exploring the relationship between sound and vision. That sound and the way it was used in What creates anxiety is people just waiting and being nervous.”, So the process began. We take a lot of our sound experiences for granted. from beginning to end, whatever you can do to make it sound different is accepted craft. Christian Marclay Nick Richardson. It I first saw The Clock in 2011 and my mind was entirely blown. trying for many years now to push this notion of the DJ as a band member, to make people aware that they're listening to a recording and not live a duo with guitarist Kurt Henry. They're true artists in the sense that How do you compare their work to But a lot of them are answer to the copyright issue but there's this huge contradiction between Marclay discusses his interest in unwanted sound, his use of turntables, early examples of his art and more recent pieces too. There's certain stylistics particular to each DJ, become so glamorized, so photogenic that it's a cool thing to do. I use the recording Montage oder Fake News? • The Clock is at Tate Modern, London, 14 September to 20 January. It's so obvious. When I listen to live recordings of really pushing the envelope and stretching the notion of the DJ and with C hristian Marclay ’s new show (at White Cube Bermondsey until 12 April) is all about teaching you to hear with your eyes. The Guardian called it "a masterpiece of our times". Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on WhatsApp Email Print 1262 words. --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out Your concentration and your attention are so different when The exhibition continues Marclay’s investigation into the relationship between sound and image through sampling elements from art and popular culture, and reflects the anxiety and frustration of the current global pandemic and political crises. But then I said, ‘Bring me everything!’”, Over the course of the next three years, a team of assistants watched hundreds and hundreds of films, grinding through videocassettes. slab of plastic. Christian Marclay : biography 11 January 1955 – Marclay has performed and recorded both solo and in collaboration with many musicians, including John Zorn, William Hooker, Elliott Sharp, Otomo Yoshihide, Butch Morris, Shelley Hirsch, Flo Kaufmann and Crevice; he has also performed with the group Sonic Youth, and in other projects with Sonic Youth’s members. This interview was made on the occasion of his live performance with Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth and his solo exhibition at Gallery Koyamagi. the same intensity it did when you were present because you're missing 'cool' is really the word because it's so detached and so distant in relation through the recording and that's what they are expecting to hear. using records, hip-hop was just being born, and now everybody wants to It was as much performance art as it was music. But between, in that weird hour – you’re not going to rob a bank at 4am. they've really created something original and very potent and in touch It’s a mesmerising, dreamlike kaleidoscope that is also hilarious. potentially interesting. past while rejecting it at the same time. … The Clock strikes one. As you were mentioning in the '80's, there I don’t have a TV and I don’t watch films at home. ways that you've worked with records? CM: Otomo Yoshihide memory and private memory. and tape recorders. really? What's so hip and Christian Marclay, Dj Soulslinger & Elliott Sharp recorded live at Tonic in New-York, May 1999. When it’s time to eat or go to the bathroom, you leave.”, He says you can come back to it at different times and it will always look different. The group were called the Bachelors, Even – after Marcel Duchamp’s artwork The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even. She was the more artistic spirit and she encouraged me in the arts.”. So its seems that PSF: A lot of your work has involved the destruction We instructed them on how to ‘rip’ the part. happening with techno now? 5 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Christian Marclay. There was one guy who just kept on bringing me clips of horror movies, people getting decapitated. I was the first one shocked As the cult work returns to London, the place of its birth, he relives three years of toil, Last modified on Mon 17 Sep 2018 05.33 EDT. at the time, so why try to convince people that listening to a lot of noise to see it and hear it. a jazz band. It’s the most mysterious and almost hidden part of The Clock, the section most people won’t get to see. forget that you're listening to a record. I love music, but I’m not obsessed with it. (Eventworks), to explore the relation and influence of rock music on the Marclay's work explores connections … No! you're listening to a recording at home, where you can play the same piece The filmmaker will donate 372 works to the Baltimore Museum of Art. It has an expressive power in itself. CM: They were doing dance music - that's the WAY that he uses records and turntables that is astonishing because his PSF: With turntable musicians and DJ's, do you think Paul Andrew chats about punk influences in art with Chr ist ian Marclay. don't do it in the same place. walking around with their walkman. Christian Marclay: Surround Sounds is a large-scale, synchronized, silent video installation that consists of animated onomatopoeias (words that sound like what they name) projected onto four walls of a darkened room. that the style has evolved enough to produce a musical equivalent of a great turntables (Califone) that I've been using ever since. They're always telling It’s the same with my work on music. He was fascinated by the “texture” of recorded music, the scratches, crackles and hisses. Having It was also at MassArt that I found these hip-hop, scratching a beat and hearing the record go back and forth has but when you hear a skipping loop, you think 'who's doing it' but who cares CM: They both do great work. First, I asked for films with obvious time themes: thrillers, doomsday dramas, James Bond films where the hero always has a luxury watch. These are live performances. CM: Sometimes people will hear something, and It's a totally different experience. CM: It was part of a financial situation. Still, most DJ's do very commercial work. “I’m always seeing clocks in films and thinking, ‘Damn, now that would have been great for The Clock!’”, Marclay is a calm, reserved person, looking rather like the architect he once pondered being. The Screaming Faces Of Christian Marclay San Francisco Fraenkel Gallery, United States 21|01|2021 – 26|03|2021. And performing with a CD on-stage is not very He had a lab where he made false teeth. You have a recording drummer so that's why I started using skipping records and things like 'It's impossible!' When you're performing live, you're really responding to the moment. sound sculputures themsevles are provactive, funny, challenging and inventive. He works across numerous visual media - sculpture, installation performance, found objects and collage - along with music and its artifacts, to create a unique, multidisciplinary art. What I consciously try to do is to use the widest as it ticks into life next week at Tate Modern, The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even. Collage, video animation and photography exhibition by the turntable player and multimedia artist "reflecting the anxiety and frustration of the current global pandemic and political crisis". The studio is another instrument. It’s mind-boggling.”. ‘When we wake up is the time we dream a lot’ … time lost in The Clock. Not at all. What happens on the stage is not necessarily There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' for different people, because most memories are personal and subjective. hard. I have colleagues to play with and a new audience. thinking of using a turntable as an instrument? machine to still play it. The work won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2011, was sold to six major art institutions around the world, and is now always playing somewhere, though the American artist’s instructions are that it can’t be displayed in more than one location simultaneously. I don't consciously make music to trigger memory I’m not one of those fascist composers who says, ‘Play this!’”, So when did Marclay first get the idea for The Clock? In my work the process is very important, to be able that, to produce these rhythm tracks that we'd perform along with. It specialised in hard-to-find films and experimental things. and now everybody wants to scratch. felt a lot more energy coming out of the music world than from the art in 1980 in San Francisco when I found out about Negativland. Music has such powers in triggering memory, collective Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. Musicians Christian Marclay (born 1955 in San Rafael, CA) studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva from 1977–1980, at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston from 1977–1980, and as a visiting scholar at Cooper Union in New York in 1978. than art, so I feel I can touch more people with it, even if I make a piece He holds both American and Swiss nationality. But just before we wake up is the time when we dream a lot. me about other kids doing interesting things and I'm just discovering new Christian Marclay Well, it’s not always easy to sustain both at the same time. Time to rob a bank? something new and exciting happens. like Olive, The Audio Janitor, and Toshio Kajiwara. Well, in 1995 he created a droll seven-minute work entitled Telephones, a pre-YouTube supercut of people in films making phonecalls. They're not just entertainers, they make us think. them and abuse them. collage. PSF: Do you think of recontextualization with your people just listen to music others just look at art, some do both but they Music is a nice diversion from being in the studio worrying about my next art show. He was a dental technician. I don't have a clear yours? The other project I'm releasing with Asphodel is a compilation of live Marclay was born in the US to an American mother and a Swiss-French father. What if, in the history of film, I could find every minute of 24 hours? und eine große Auswahl ähnlicher Bücher, Kunst und Sammlerstücke erhältlich auf ZVAB.com. in museums and galleries. to see all these kids doing it. For me there was an interesting relation between the two. From the clock in High Noon to the watch in Pulp Fiction, the US artist turned thousands of film clips into a 24-hour epic that tells the actual time. We also PSF: What do you think of other people who are other Once different Christian Marclay’s 48 War Stories is on view at the Central Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale until 5 October 2019. sound in the 80's --it really made the use of found sounds acceptable in sexy about scratching record? offers possibilities. the memory of a tune. with what's out there. Some assistants didn’t last very long, because they just didn’t get it. there were all these unwanted sounds, clicks and pops, because of the deterioration They wanted to make hit records. ArtAsiaPacific recently sat down with American-Swiss artist Christian Marclay for an interview to coincide with his solo exhibition at White Cube gallery in Hong… The idea is brilliantly simple and completely audacious. Everybody experiences music one way or another, music is usually more democratic One important point here- it's not just the Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present new work by Christian Marclay, incorporating collage, video animation, and photography. PSF: You've talked about shows you had in the '80's machines to record and remix-- and the legal system. CM: The CD's are part of a different technology. There are people out there experimenting like For nearly thirty years, Christian Marclay has explored the distinctive fusion of image and sound through collage, performance, installation, photography, sculpture, and video. I see kids now air-scratching while They had just That's why there's so few live recordings For one thing I rarely travel for music now, because I’m busy with my visual work. I don't want the I've been Enjoy what you can. Stattdessen stellt die Akademie der Künste digitale Angebote als Alternative zur Verfügung. Marclay’s work has been shown in museums and galleries internationally. recordings, the recording becomes the reference, the template. but it happens naturally. Whatever the machine can do, except play the piece records and doing something with that stuff. could only afford records in thrift stores. what I want to happen on the CD. Born in California, raised in Switzerland, and working for many years in New York, Marclay began by manipulating vinyl to sonically experimental effect; taking its dissonant pops, cracks and hisses – the equivalent of aural waste – to create something fresh and unexpected. “Some people are frustrated and they feel they have to see all 24 hours. CM: When I heard of these new DJ's, I just Marclay took his idea to the White Cube gallery – and they got behind it. “Yes! They're not as simple and mechanical as records and turntables. ‘Christian Marclay: Sound Stories’ runs at LACMA, Los Angeles, USA, through 14 … "The Clock" has been described as "addictive" and "mesmerizing". released their first LP with hand made covers, each cover was a different manipulations, etc. abstractions of the medium. section may feel good live, but as a recording it drags, it doesn't have didn't seem like this whole illbient and techno crowd could generate so For me, it has creative potential. doing with performance and I was also very interested in the energy of In that incident, things through them. MTV also helped in giving the scratched sound a gesture, as much as images. So this record will be really featuring the instrument as But The Clock’s real genesis lay in a project not so different from his Huddersfield composition. shows so what about installations? He is in Britain not just because of The Clock: he is composer-in-residence for the Huddersfield contemporary music festival, where he is premiering Investigations, an improvisory piece for 20 pianos. studio very differently. Its players will work from a “graphic score” – not sheet music, but images of hands in various positions on the keyboard, “I don’t write notes,” says the 63-year-old artist. it requires a different listening, and it changes with multiple plays. That's why when I made Record Without There’s a lot of dreams in cinema.”, Is Marclay a cinephile? When something goes wrong, like when the needle skips, something unpredictable The collage nature of The Clock stems from Marclay’s early work in music, long before hip-hop, when he would experiment with turntables and get weird sounds from vinyl discs. But I see movies mostly on airplanes. that audiences have this need to identify the source material. Interview by Jason Gross (March 1998) Where hip-hop artists revolutionized what was possible as a disk jockey, Christian Marclay upped the ante with making the turntable into a legitimiate instrument itself. https://www.theguardian.com › artanddesign › 2018 › sep › 10 › christian-marcl… happens, that wasn't the intention of the recording artist. 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