For three decades Christian Marclay has deftly manipulated recorded sound and its associated imagery from his early work as a pioneering turntablist to assemblages of record covers and montages of clips from Hollywood movies.
His new work, The Clock, features thousands of found film fragments of clocks, watches, and characters reacting to a particular time of day. These are edited together to create a 24 hour-long, single-channel video that is synchronised with local time. As each new clip appears a new narrative is suggested, only to be swiftly overtaken by another. Watching, we inhabit two worlds; that of fiction and that of fact, as real-time seconds fly inexorably by.
http://www.britishartshow.co.uk/
The Clock
Edition of 6
Single channel video
Duration: 24 hours
Photo: Ben Westoby
http://www.britishartshow.co.uk/
The Clock
Edition of 6
Single channel video
Duration: 24 hours
Photo: Ben Westoby
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