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You snooze, but do you really lose? In defence of a cultural nap

You snooze, but do you really lose? In defence of a cultural nap

Video masterpiece for the 21st century: Australian candidates for the title – The Clock, Christian Marclay’s 24-hour video work, prompted me to think: is that what a masterpiece looks like today?

When Christian Marclay’s The Clock was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney last year, an artist friend and I discussed the possibility that the Swiss-American artist’s 24-hour long video work might be an actual, bonafide masterpiece. Neither of us had seen the work at that stage but everything about it appealed to me, and response when it first exhibited overseas had been rapturous.

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Christian Marclay

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Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay is an artist who works with found video clips, imagery and objects. He even collages sounds through the cutting and pasting of vinyl records. I am able to connect his work to Matthew Cusick’s work through their video art through found Hollywood clips. He like to explore the juxtaposition between sound recording, photography, video and film. Marcel Duchamp is one of his influences. Marclay doesn’t desire to bridge things together but to tear them apart.

Christian Marclay: art’s man of the moment

Christian Marclay’s epic video collage, ‘The Clock’, used thousands of film clips to hypnotic – and retina-searing – effect. Will his new work also be a sight for sore eyes?