The Clock
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Read More: meta: one feminist reading group
The meta is my downfall and my delight, I suppose by definition. Work that refers to, returns to, revisits itself—its forms, its theories, its pleasures—pleases me. This temporary blog reprise,…
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Read More: Blogs and/as Time: On “The Clock,” Twice
I watched 40 minutes, from precisely 3:50-4:30, of Christian Marclay’s The Clock yesterday at MoMA, a heartfelt homage to a sunsetting but never fully settled technology—cinema. On this viewing, only…
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Read More: Life in a Clock on a Screen
Who knew? The YouTube indie-movie Life in a Day is the freaky feel-good twin of the art-world movie The Clock: they construct dogmatically linear narratives with staccato marches forward to…
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Read More: Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”: Time Compressor
Darling of the art world, Christian Marclay’s The Clock, like so many pieces of conceptual art, was for me as giving in the reading and anticipatory thinking about it as…