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8/1/2003

Christian Marclay

Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria

American Museum of the Moving Image
Thursdays Evening Artist Talks and Presentations Begin with Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay will discuss his work following screenings of TELEPHONES and UP AND OUT

Program Date: January 9, 2003

The American Museum of the Moving Image will present  Thursdays, a monthly series of artists talks and screenings, in conjunction with  DigitalMedia, the new gallery space devoted to probing and playful explorations of the computed moving image.

         The series opens with Sampling Cinema, a screening and discussion with New York-based, Swiss-born artist and musician Christian Marclay on Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 7:30 p.m.  The event is held in conjunction with the New York debut of Marclay-s newest installation, -Video Quartet,- at New York-s Paula Cooper Gallery.  Though known for his work in a variety of media, Marclay is best known for performances and recordings that transformed existing musical recordings into new compositions, prefiguring within the avant-garde such movements as -turntablism.-  In the past eight years, Marclay has turned to visual material from the cinema as the raw material for his transformations.  At the Museum, Marclay will present his acclaimed video works UP AND OUT (1998) and TELEPHONES (1995), both of which characterize the cinematic strain of Marclay-s work, and function as a commentary on the nature and interrelationship of recorded sound and image.  In UP AND OUT, Marclay fuses the moving imagery of Antonioni-s BLOW-UP (1966) with the soundtrack to BLOW OUT (1981), Brian Depalma-s remake of the film.  The viewer is cast into a world where what sound and image are at once disjointed and connected, echoing the position of the protagonist of each film. Running the full length of Antonioni-s original, UP AND OUT, proceeds with minimal intervention from the artist. In contrast, the short, intense TELEPHONES is a seven-minute visual composition comprised of footage from Hollywood films that foreground both the image and sound of the telephone.

    About Christian Marclay: New York-based artist Christian Marclay works in a variety of disciplines including music, performance, and visual art. He is a pioneering turntablist, whose recordings and collaborations with Sonic Youth, Elliott Sharp, and Otomo Yoshihide, among others, have had a definitive impact on the avant-garde music scene over the last twenty years. Marclay's sculptural and video installations turn our attention to the process of hearing and seeing music. For example, Marclay has rendered "impossible instruments," such as a drumkit that towers from floor to ceiling, its parts positioned according to their respective pitches in a visual representation of the sounds they make. For Prosthesis (2000), he made a silicone rubber cast of an electric bass guitar. Marclay's altered instruments continue his exploration of situating music and performance in the gallery. "It may seem like a contradiction, but I'm interested in sound, not just for how it sounds, but also for how it looks," Marclay has said. Whether manipulating vinyl records in his performances or rendering sculptures from mute instruments, he continually refers to music as the intersection between the audio and the visual, blurring the distinction between these two mediums. (Source: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago). Christian Marclay's latest work, Video Quartet (2001), is currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21 Street in Manhattan.

         The series continues on Thursday, February 27 with a panel discussion featuring artists Camille Utterback, A.C. Chapman, and Toni Dove, who will discuss and demonstrate works to be installed in  DigitalMedia that day, and on Thursday, March 13, which feature artists performing software that is featured in the gallery.

SCHEDULE
DigitalMedia will be open at 6:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on January 9, February 27 and March 13.

Thursday, January 9
7:30 p.m.Sampling Cinema, with Christian Marclay
UP AND OUT
(Christian Marclay, 1998, 100 mins.)
TELEPHONES
(Christian Marclay, 1995, 7 mins.)
UP AND OUT synchronizes the visual footage of Michelangelo Antonioni's celebrated 1966 film BLOWUP with the soundtrack and dialogue of BLOW OUT, Brian De Palma's 1981 homage to the Antonioni classic. TELEPHONES is a video work which uses Hollywood film clips to recreate the scenario of the human encounter with the telephone.

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MUSEUM INFORMATION
The American Museum of the Moving Image is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media, and to examining their impact on culture and society.
    It achieves these goals by maintaining the nation's largest permanent collection of moving image artifacts, and by offering the public exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, seminars, and other education programs.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Group tours by appointment, Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.
Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N train to Broadway.
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The American Museum of the Moving Image occupies a building owned by the City of New York. With the assistance of the Queens Borough President and the Queens Delegation of the New York City Council, the Museum receives support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Vital support is also provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Natural Heritage Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation), the National Science Foundation, corporations, foundations, and individuals.

American Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 36 Street, Astoria, New York, 11106

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