WOEBOT

Christian Marclay.

What a great image! Marclay's curious. I'd find him really interesting if he wasn't working within the context of the exhibition. He's a bit like Mike "Destroy All Monsters" Kelley in that way. I don't get why putting the iconography of music within the gallery is illuminating. The gallery is like a fridge, it kills all life, makes it possible to analyse. I don't believe that it strips work of meaning per se, alot of artists make interesting work at this junction. It's just that music (emotion, sensation, involvement) isn't served by dessication. If Marclay was making a cold point about the machinations of the music industry then maybe I'd feel his stuff works as gallery art, but it's attraction lies in it's fetishism and record-collecting puns. Still there's loads of really fun things he's done. That floor of records you could walk over (the horror!), dragging that amped-up guitar behind a truck (from David Toop's Hayward Exhibition) and these record-sleeve collages are ace.

Posted by Woebot at July 14, 2003 05:14 PM