| EnsembleEdited by Christian Marclay. Introduction by Claudia Gould. Sound mix by Aaron Igler.
New York-based Christian Marclay has been a pioneering DJ since the 1970s, when he began to rock turntables and even old gramophones--bending, breaking and mixing records in the creation of a brand new instrument. Since then, in addition to DJing, he has exhibited his sound-based artwork internationally. Ensemble is a group exhibition of sound art at the ICA, which Marclay organized. Likening his approach to that of a composer rather than a curator, Marclay chose sculpture and installations based on their sound quality and sonic compatibility. An ambient sound environment resulted, with iconic works by such artists as Harry Bertoia, Yoko Ono and Michelangelo Pistoletto, mixed in with newer pieces. This publication includes a CD featuring a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of artist/musicians, including Shelly Hirsch, Alison Knowles, Alan Licht, Marina Rosenfeld and Mika Tajima “playing” the show. | |  |
LIST PRICE: U.S. $20.00
ISBN: 9780884541127
FORMAT: Paperback, 5 x 5 in. / 16 pgs / 16 color / CD Audio
PUBLISHER: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
PUBLICATION DATE: 4/1/2008 | Active
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| Christian Marclay: ReplayEdited by Jean-Pierre Criqui. Text by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Rosalind E. Krauss, Peter Szendy, Emma Lavigne.
Christian Marclay was born in 1955 in California, but he grew up in Geneva and didn't live in the U.S. again until he returned in 1977 to study art. By 1979, music was Marclay's material of choice. He has since turned a fascination with all aspects of popular recorded sound and cinema into a brilliant career as an artist. As a collector of audio and film, he harnesses his eclectic interests and expansive archive to a practice spanning aural and visual collage and performance, in a layering and sampling aesthetic that has come to be called, after the DJ's tool, turntablism. He has collaborated with musicians including John Zorn, the Kronos quartet, DJ Spooky and Sonic Youth, and appeared or shown his work at venues including The Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 in New York. Replay, the first book to focus on his moving image work, gathers his most important films and projections to date. If Marclay's craft of reconstruction is itself musical (the pauses and absences being as much part of the work as the shots and beats), his recompositions also follow a rich heritage of montage within cinema and experimental film. | |  |
LIST PRICE: U.S. $39.95
ISBN: 9783905770575
FORMAT: Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 36 color / 140 b&w.
PUBLISHER: JRP|Ringier
PUBLICATION DATE: 9/1/2007 | Out of print
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| Christian Marclay: The Bell And The GlassEdited by Susan Rosenberg. Conversation with Christian Marclay, Thomas Y. Levin, Ann Temkin and Thaddeus A. Squire.
Two of Philadelphia's most famous cracked icons, The Liberty Bell and Marcel Duchamp's “The Large Glass,” are perhaps rarely thought of as having anything at all to do with one another, save for the fact that they are both cracked and both situated in Philadelphia. Nevertheless, here they are, joined together in an innovative book by renowned installation artist and composer Christian Marclay. This curious volume, unusually (and thus appropriately) bound with an exposed binding, features several musical scores by Marclay, Duchamp, John Philip Sousa and others, as well as multiple pairings of images of the Bell and the Glass. Full of surprising and often humorous affinities between these wildly unrelated subjects, The Bell and the Glass is published on the occasion of the installation and performances by Marclay and the Relâche Ensemble at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in late spring 2003. | |  |
LIST PRICE: U.S. $29.95
ISBN: 9780876331736
FORMAT: Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 70 color / 70 b&w.
PUBLISHER: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Relche, Inc.
PUBLICATION DATE: 3/2/2004 | Out of print
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| Christian MarclayEdited by Russell Ferguson. Essays by Miwon Kwon, Douglas Kahn, Alan Licht.
It is sound--and our culturally determined reactions to it--that forms the basis of Christian Marclay's genre- and media-crossing art. Fascinated by the translation of the audible into the visual, the theme that informs all of his work is the space between what we hear and what we see. Telephone conversation, movies, reviews of musical performances, compact discs and album covers have all provided sources of inspiration for his work. This volume looks at the diverse body of work that Marclay has created from 1980 to the present, exploring it within the various contexts of music, art history and popular culture in which it exists. Twenty years of Marclay's sculpture, collage, installation, photography and video are represented. Essayists include Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer Museum chief curator and the Marclay exhibition curator; Miwon Kwon, University of California, Los Angeles professor of art history; Douglas Kahn, professor of technocultural studies at the University of California, Davis and a leading scholar of avant-garde music; and Alan Licht, musician and sometime Marclay collaborator. The definitive volume on one of today's most influential artists. | |  |
LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00
ISBN: 9783882439311
FORMAT: Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.
PUBLISHER: Steidl/UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
PUBLICATION DATE: 7/2/2003 | Out of print
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