For over 20 years, Marclay has been carrying out a joint exploration of the realms of sound and vision, producing performances and sculptures, drawings, photographs, and installations in which collage is the dominant technique. The visual pieces are thus inseparable from their aural dimension, and likewise the sound works have an irreducible visual aspect. Marclay discusses various topics in the interview, including when he first started making music, how his musical practice initially developed from the possibility of creating sounds using vinyl records, his technique of cutting and carving vinyl records before sticking them back together in different slices to make a new ensemble, the adaptations he has made to turntables, the importance of the very spontaneous quality of his music, and his use of collage to connect music and sound in his visual works. |
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Country |
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One Thousand Cycles |
SoundWork |
records. atavistic, 1997 |
1981 |
USA |
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Phonodrum |
Soundwork |
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1981 |
USA |
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Smoker |
Soundwork |
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1981 |
USA |
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Groove |
Soundwork |
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1982 |
USA |
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His Masters Voice |
Soundwork |
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1982 |
USA |
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Brown Rain |
Soundwork |
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1982 |
USA |
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Second Coming |
Soundwork |
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1982 |
USA |
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Craft |
Soundwork |
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1983 |
USA |
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Pandora's Box |
Soundwork |
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1984 |
USA |
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Neural |
Soundwork |
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1984 |
USA |
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1930 |
SoundWork |
records. atavistic, 1997 |
1985 |
USA |
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Jukebox Capriccio |
SoundWork |
records. atavistic, 1997 |
1985 |
USA |
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Record without a Cover |
Vinyl Release |
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1985 |
USA |
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BlackStucco |
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Pr_pia C_pia - Chill out Disco 6 |
1986 |
USA |
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Tellus #15: The Improvisors (1986) |
Tape Contribution |
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1986 |
USA |
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Christian Marclay |
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P.S. 1 Museum, The Clocktower, New York. |
1987 |
USA |
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Night Music |
SoundWork |
records. atavistic, 1997 |
1989 |
USA |
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Footsteps |
Installation |
Shedhalle |
1989 |
Switzerland |
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Directions: Christian Marclay |
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (brochure). |
1990 |
USA |
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Christian Marclay |
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Interim Art, London |
1991 |
England |
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The Wind Section |
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Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris. |
1992 |
France |
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Echo and Narcissus |
Installation |
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1992 |
USA |
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Christian Marclay |
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Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles |
1993 |
USA |
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Berlin Mix |
Performance |
Strassenbahndepot Moabit |
1993 |
Germany |
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Christian Marclay |
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daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Fri-Art Centre dart contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg (catalogue). |
1994 |
Germany |
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Accompagnement Musical |
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Musée dArt et dHistoire, Geneva. |
1995 |
Switzerland |
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Arranged and Conducted |
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Kunsthaus, Zurich |
1996 |
Germany |
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Pictures at an Exhibition |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
1997 |
USA |
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Christian Marclay |
Exhibition |
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. |
1999 |
USA |
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Live @ IRCAM |
Live Performance |
IRCAM, Paris |
1999 |
France |
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Guitar Drag |
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Sonic Boom |
2000 |
England |
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Christian Marclay: Cinema |
Exhibition |
Oakville Galleries |
2000 |
Canada |
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Blind Television |
Installation |
Oakville Galleries |
2000 |
Canada |
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Up and Out |
Installation |
Oakville Galleries |
2000 |
Canada |
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Untitled |
Installation |
The International 3 |
2002 |
England |
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Shake Rattle and Roll (fluxmix) |
16-channel audio- and video installation |
Walker Art Center |
2005 |
USA |
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Crossfire |
Installation |
White Cube Gallery, London |
2007 |
England |
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