Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay
Christian Ernest Marclayis a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth11 January 1955
CountrySwitzerland
layer material music recognize share triggers
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.
banality statements
Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.
dream eye facts
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
together
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
painter
I have never been much of a painter.
editing long sitting
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
editing together pieces
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.