Christian Marclay- E resources- Wilson Web articles
The video installation artist and composer, his work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film with the use of years of sourcing imagery and film scenes throughout the world the meticulously editing them together into one vast piece of visual art.
The Clock
The clock a visual piece of installation art, projected in an open gallery space, ‘The clock’ is a 24hr piece of video- using time references for every minute of the day in the form of a collage using thousands of movie exerts (referring to time or a specific time but all in order of the 24hour clock) ticking through 70 years of film history , reassembled to create this perpetual piece of artwork. Also is a completely fully functional 24hr clock if not a little impractical- this may not be the main function of this artwork. However it is relevant to the meaning and possible feeling this installation can create upon a viewer.
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| BBC piece- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8svkK7d7sY |
‘Whatever moment you step into the screening, you see or hear the current time, and the film tracks real time through the entire twenty-four hours of its loop. If you enter at 6 p.m., and leave at 2 a.m., you will have watched the passage of every minute of those eight hours which is an extraordinary experience in the context of a medium that usually magically folds or stretches our perception of time. The audacious subject of The Clock is time itself, certainly a huge topic, perhaps the biggest of all.’ - Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism-Christian Marclay: The Clock by Viegener Matias
The viewing of images in this perfect synchronization with the real world, this concept of time being in order and at the same rate as everyday life... but viewers feel them selves to lose their grasp on what (real) time is and become emersed in the piece. sitting watching time but forgetting about time even though reminded by time indefinitely throughout the piece. This although being a little confusing, the concept of time is lost as you know it. Giving this piece of work lots of depth to it involving a viewer so far they begging to question the concept of time them selves is not an easy thing to do but Marclay has achieved this with great effect, with galleries all over the world still queuing up to obtain this piece for even a short amount of time.
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| BBC piece- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8svkK7d7sY ‘the viewer leaves with an excess of thoughts, exhausted and exhilarated at the same time. Marclay’s material is unrelenting but also surprising, as we come to see how references to time infiltrate both ordinary life and exceptional moments.’ Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism-Christian Marclay: The Clock by Viegener, Matias The selection of media is key within this piece of work, if it was slightly wrong it would lose the audiences attention, so this intricate selection of pieces of video to exhilarate and exhaust the viewer is exceptional, to keep and audience gripped for a period of 24 hours focusing on time alone holds this piece of installation piece very high, its has the wow factor and wonder factor but is also a great piece of craftsmanship. However 'The clock' can hold a more deeper and thoughtful meaning such as... ‘the Clock testifies to the Taylorization of modern life, the Fletcherization of every bit of our existence. Paul Virilio reminds us, “At the close of our century, the time of the finite world is coming to an end; we live in the beginnings of a paradoxical miniaturization of action, which others prefer to baptize automation.”2 While addressing speed and politics, like many twentieth century philosophers, Virilio also examines the fundamentally technological nature of modernity.’- CINEMATIC TIME REPLAYED Source:Millennium Film J no54 Fall 2011 p. 3-6 The piece goes throughout time showing a shift from lesser times to a more modern society this shift and taylorization showing the change in our existence as we know, with the use of movie clips from different eras to present day, showing a sense of technological modernity, showing inventions such as the telephone, contacting people across the world easily, the industrial revolution is referenced through out several pieces, which is seen to have change our sense of space and well time, trains where available flights quicker than automobiles and other transport, all pictured throughout the clock showing a complete shift over time to a more modern and precise society. However the concept of time remains the same, even though we can travel further and quicker, if you watch a minute on a clock it is the same as a minute anywhere else on the planet. 'Modern art often deals with these shifts of space and time, but after modernism time stubbornly remains unconquerable. The telephone appears nearly as often as the clock in Marclay’s piece, almost as a reminder that though distance might be manageable, no one is time’s master'. - CINEMATIC TIME REPLAYED Source: Millennium Film J no54 Fall 2011 p. 3-6 The clock is more than just a clock, its a great piece of craftsmanship, a great profound essay on film, an essay of modernity and how we relate to time, and time relates to us, also how we view the concept of time, the general feeling of having no time left or too much time on your hands is all viewable within this piece, questioning your view on what time is to you? But mainly I feel that Marclay is highlighting on how no one is times master, it always moves at the same speed, and always will do and no on can change that, but people can change their perception of time and how they wish to use or view it. |
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