Clock Time
In this essay Krauss talks about Christin Marclay's unusual choice of medium, a video artist using commercial film as his medium. In his work Video Quartet (2002) he uses sound, often to highlight silence and in his mor recent work The Clock (2010) he uses time. In The Clock, which was recently displayed at the MCA, he has selected sections of commercial films showing a clock and placed them in order to form a clock which then plays over a 24hour time period. What is interestion about this work is it's use as a clock by using clocks. Where Video Quartet's focus was on sound, or lack of, The Clock focuses on time. In engages the audience and makes them think about time and the space they are in, however by watching the work they also loose track of time by thinking about it. It also features the shots of actors reactions to the time, which in turn makes the audience look at their watch, seeing it is the same time, should they be having the same reaction? The Clock brings to light a new medium of time. The combination of he time in moovies - reel time - into the real time of the current, humanising the often fictional movies and putting them in the present.
No comments:
Post a Comment