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Christian Marclay

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The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.


— Christian Marclay


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These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.


— Christian Marclay


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Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.


— Christian Marclay


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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.


— Christian Marclay


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When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.


— Christian Marclay


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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.


— Christian Marclay


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You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.


— Christian Marclay


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You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.


— Christian Marclay


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Thom Jurek writes that "While many intellectuals have made wild pronouncements about Marclay and his art – and it is art make no mistake – writing all sorts of blather about how he strips the adult century bare by his cutting up of vinyl records and pasting them together with parts from other vinyl records they never seem to mention that these sound collages of his are charming very human and quite often intentionally hilarious. These duos with Henry might be the first time a musician used records and turntables as interactive improvising musical instruments.

Marclay's work explores connections between sound noise photography video and film. " His own use of turntables and records beginning in the late 1970s was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument. Christian Ernest Marclay (born 11 January 1955) is a Swiss and American visual artist and composer.

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