An artist exploring sound, photography, video and film, Christian Marclay creates mixed-media pieces and also does performance art using damaged turntable records, items he buys at second-hand shops,... Read full biography
An artist exploring sound, photography, video and film, Christian Marclay creates mixed-media pieces and also does performance art using damaged turntable records, items he buys at second-hand shops, to produce sounds of "continuous looks and skips". (Wikipedia) In fact, he has made the turntable a... Read full biography
An artist exploring sound, photography, video and film, Christian Marclay creates mixed-media pieces and also does performance art using damaged turntable records, items he buys at second-hand shops, to produce sounds of "continuous looks and skips". (Wikipedia) In fact, he has made the turntable a musical instrument, something made possible by the quality of Califone turntables. He also creates sound collages using dozens of vinyl records at a time, cutting them up and reaassembling them.... Read full biography
An artist exploring sound, photography, video and film, Christian Marclay creates mixed-media pieces and also does performance art using damaged turntable records, items he buys at second-hand shops, to produce sounds of "continuous looks and skips". (Wikipedia) In fact, he has made the turntable a musical instrument, something made possible by the quality of Califone turntables. He also creates sound collages using dozens of vinyl records at a time, cutting them up and reaassembling them. Sometimes these rearrangements using a wide variety of music result in memories of other tunes. As a student at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Marclay was interested in performance art and punk rock, especially the energy of punk rock. He... Read full biography
An artist exploring sound, photography, video and film, Christian Marclay creates mixed-media pieces and also does performance art using damaged turntable records, items he buys at second-hand shops, to produce sounds of "continuous looks and skips". (Wikipedia) In fact, he has made the turntable a musical instrument, something made possible by the quality of Califone turntables. He also creates sound collages using dozens of vinyl records at a time, cutting them up and reaassembling them. Sometimes these rearrangements using a wide variety of music result in memories of other tunes. As a student at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Marclay was interested in performance art and punk rock, especially the energy of punk rock. He felt that more energy at that time was generated by the music world than the art world, and whe... Read full biography
Christian Marclay - Artist Info
About Christian Marclay: Books
Books & Publications (5)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision (Lentos Art Museum, LInz, Austria
2009
Rainer, Cosima et al
312 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
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