It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.
Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. - Christian Marclay
Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.
- Christian Marclay
Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that cou… - Christian Marclay
Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that cou…
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together. - Christian Marclay
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
You start with an idea but then so many things can happen. - Christian Marclay
You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.
Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer... I… - Christian Marclay
Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer... I…
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way. - Christian Marclay
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it. - Christian Marclay
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in… - Christian Marclay
[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in…
I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga c… - Christian Marclay
I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga c…
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