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
failure might throw total
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
allowing change document medium performance record time
'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
hands sitting computer
Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
editing together pieces
The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
way life-is deals
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
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.
interesting offensive creator
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
together pieces may
I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.
painter
I have never been much of a painter.
together
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
records way sound
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
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.
different would-be records
Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
play trying different
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.