Christian Marclay
01 July - 26 September 2010
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Screen Play, 2005
Single-channel video projection, black and white with color, silent; 29 min
Courtesy the artist |
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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.
www.whitney.org
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