{"data":{"id":"4435","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":4435,"topgoose_id":1319,"tms_id":4435,"display_name":"Christian Marclay","sort_name":"Marclay Christian","display_date":"1955–","begin_date":"1955","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eSince the late 1970s Christian Marclay\nhas explored the interplay of sound, noise,\nmusic, and image in a body of work that\nranges across sculpture, installation,\nfilm, and musical performance. He has\ncollaborated with musicians such as\nSonic Youth and the Kronos Quartet and\nis one of the pioneers of “turntablism”—\nthe use of vinyl records and turntables as\nmusical instruments—and of the remix\nas a cultural form. In \u003ca href=\"/collection/works/25624\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVideo Quartet\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, a visual\nand auditory collage consisting of four\nsynchronized videos that form one\ncontiguous image-and-sound work, Marclay\ncreates a seventeen-minute symphony\nthat assembles and musically choreographs\nhundreds of clips from iconic Hollywood\nfeature films from the 1920s to the\nearly twenty-first century. The film scenes,\nwhich themselves relate a cultural history\nof the movies, feature people playing\nmusical instruments or singing as well as\nother soundtrack elements: shouts,\nscreams, objects generating noise, and\nmoments of cinematic silence.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVideo Quartet\u003c/em\u003e is a meticulously edited\ncomposition that at the same time maintains\nan improvisational atmosphere, the clips\ncreating moments of synchrony or seeming\nspontaneously to respond to each other\nas if performed live. The project anticipates\ngenres such as the “supercut,” a video\nmontage highlighting a single theme that\nhas become a popular form on YouTube.\nMarclay continued his exploration of\nmontage in \u003cem\u003eThe Clock\u003c/em\u003e (2011)—winner of the\nGolden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale—\na film that chronicles a twenty-four-hour\nperiod by combining thousands of film\nexcerpts featuring clocks, watches, and\ntimekeeping mechanisms, commenting on\ncinematic time as it unfolds in real time\non the screen and through cinema’s history.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500116487","wikidata_id":"Q923306","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:18:08.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-11T07:02:00.979-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/4435/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/4435/exhibitions"}}}}