replay: christian marclay

Audiovisual exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, in Melbourne. Christian Marclay was born in California, raised in Switzerland, and currently based in NYC. Strongly influenced by Marcel Duchamp, Pop Art, the punk movement and performance art, Marclay has been composing music and performances as an experimental DJ for over 25 years.Installations using several projectors, TVs, and speakers, from collages of classic hollywood movies and personal footage, mixing audio and video, Marclay creates a new composition rearranging elements and playing with your senses.”Music like you’ve never seen before and art like you’ve never heard before”, as the interview magazine says. The exhibition ends on february 3rd, so keep an eye open to see if It is going anywhere next to you.

Record PlayersVideo, 5 mins 1984

For Christian Marclay ‘Breaking is making sound’. The musicians in Record Players shatter records rhythmically acting out against the records’ fragility in order to free music from its captivity.