Full Description
Christian Marclay is a New York-based, Swiss-American sculptor and installation artist who emerged in the 1980s. Also a musician, composer, DJ and filmmaker, Marclay explores the gap between what we see and what we hear, to create what he calls a 'theatre of found sound'The artist is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21 St. and 521 West 21 Street (2nd fl.) New York, NY, 10011, USA, tel. 212, 255-1105, fax 212 255 5156, and White Cube, 48 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB, tel. +44 20 7749 7477, fax 20 7749 7470
Contents
Interview - Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon concentrates on Marclay's collaborations with musicians and his performance work * Survey - Art historian and critic Jennifer Gonzalez examines Marclay's output, primarily focusing on his work as a visual artist * Focus - Art critic and curator Matthew Higgs looks closely at the structure and content of the immensely complex, highly enjoyable Video Quartet (2002) * Artist's Choice The artist has selected The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France (1913), originally a fold-out poster poem by Swiss writer Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), who, like the artist, worked across various disciplines. * Artist's Writings include 'Interview Cut-up', a spliced interview combining key conversations that the artist has published since 1991 specially created with the artist for this volume, and Extended Play (1989), a succinct statement on music-as-sculpture * Chronology and Bibliography
