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Born on January 11, 1955 in San Rafael, California, Christian Marclay is an artist raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at the École Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva and at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He resides and works in London, United Kingdom. The American-Swiss artist is known for his sculptures, videos, music, and sound collages.
Scream (Night Echoes), 2019
Marclay is accredited with inventing “turntabilism,” the act of manipulating sounds using two or more turntables. His 24-hour film, The Clock (2010), was released in compounded hundreds of film scenes where a clock or a watch displays a certain time. The movie was meant to be watched in its whole duration so that the times presented in the work correspond with the actual time of day. Marclay’s works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kunstmuseum Basel in Basel, Switzerland the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Tate Gallery in London, and others.
Christian Marclay | On Time discussing The Clock
Marclay's early work featured a series of "Recycled Records" (1980−86) that became hybrid objects that could be played, replete with abrupt leaps in tone and sound. For the "Body Mix" series (1991−92), he stitched album covers to create pieces that are phantasms of music and culture—like Deutsche Grammaphon conductors with the slender legs of Tina Turner.
