Christian Marclay

01 July - 26 September 2010

© Christian Marclay Screen Play, 2005 Single-channel video projection, black and white with color, silent; 29 min Courtesy the artist

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
Festival
1 July – 26 September 2010

Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955) is known for his distinctive fusion of image and sound. Celebrated as a pioneer of turntablism, Marclay transforms sound and music into visual and physical forms through performance, collage, sculpture, large-scale installations, photography, and video. This groundbreaking Whitney exhibition — activated by daily concerts and continually evolving — explores Marclay’s approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his "graphic scores” for performance by musicians and vocalists. Visitors to the Whitney will be encouraged to mark up a wall-sized chalkboard, with musical staff lines, thereby creating a collective musical score which will be performed throughout the run of the show. Other Marclay scores, including the premiere of a new scrolled vocal work sixty feet in length and three scores conceived as projections, will be continually on view and performed on a regular basis. World renowned musicians and vocalists, some of whom have been regular collaborators with the artist for three decades, will interpret a dozen scores, enabling museum audiences to experience a less well known aspect of Marclay’s varied art practice.

Christian Marclay: Festival was organized by curator David Kiehl with Limor Tomer, adjunct curator of performing arts.

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