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Christian Marclay was born on 11 January, 1955 in San Rafael, California, U.S., is a Christian Marclay is visual artist and composer visual artist and composer. Discover Christian Marclay's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 11 January, 1955
Birthday 11 January
Birthplace San Rafael, California, U.S.
Nationality American

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1955

Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer.

He holds both American and Swiss nationality.

Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video and film.

A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism."

Christian Marclay was born on January 11, 1955, in San Rafael, Marin County, California, to a Swiss father and an American mother and raised in Geneva, Switzerland.

1960

As a student he was notably interested in Joseph Beuys and the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Long based in Manhattan, Marclay has in recent years divided his time between New York and London.

Citing the influence of John Cage, Yoko Ono and Vito Acconci, Marclay has long explored the rituals around making and collecting music.

Drawn to the energy of punk rock, he began creating songs, singing to music on pre-recorded backing tapes.

1970

His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the late 1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument.

1975

He studied at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva (1975–1977), the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston (1977–1980, Bachelor of Fine Arts) in the Studio for Interrelated Media Program, and the Cooper Union in New York (1978).

1979

Unable to recruit a drummer for his 1979 performances with guitarist Kurt Henry, Marclay used the regular rhythms of a skipping LP record as a percussion instrument.

These duos with Henry might be the first time a musician used records and turntables as interactive, improvising musical instruments.

Marclay sometimes manipulates or damages records to produce continuous loops and skips, and has said he generally prefers inexpensive used records purchased at thrift shops, as opposed to other turntablists who often seek out specific recordings.

1985

Marclay released Record Without a Cover on Recycled Records in 1985, "...designed to be sold without a jacket, not even a sleeve!"

Accumulating dust and fingerprints would enhance the sound.

A review in Spin at the time cited Marclay's "coolest theatrical gesture" in his live performances of phonoguitar: the artist strapped a record player onto himself and played, for example, a Jimi Hendrix album.

1988

The Sound of Silence (1988) is a black-and-white photograph of the Simon & Garfunkel single of the same title.

Following this turn, Marclay has in more recent years produced visual art, although usually of representations of sound, or the various technologies of representing sound.

1989

In his artwork Five Cubes (1989), he melted vinyl records into cubes.

And an interest in onomatopoeia dating back to 1989 has culminated in his monumental Manga Scroll (2010), a 60-foot scroll of cartoon interjections that doubles as a musical score.

1991

Marclay began dating curator Lydia Yee in 1991, and the couple married in 2011.

1998

In 1998, he claimed never to have paid more than US$1 for a record.

Marclay has occasionally cut and re-joined different LP records; when played on a turntable, these re-assembled records will combine snippets of different music in quick succession along with clicks or pops from the seams – typical of noise music – and when the original LPs were made of differently-colored vinyl, the reassembled LPs can themselves be considered as works of art.

Some of Marclay's musical pieces are carefully recorded and edited plunderphonics-style; he is also active in free improvisation.

He was filmed performing a duo with ERikm for the documentary Scratch.

His scene didn't make the final cut, but is included among the DVD extras.

2002

His Graffiti Composition (2002) posted musical notes on walls around Berlin, compiled photographs of them as they faded, and is performed in concert.

2007

Shuffle (2007) and Ephemera (2009) are also musical scores.

In Sound Holes (2007), he photographed the many patterns of speaker holes on intercoms.

From 2007-2009 he worked with cyanotype at Graphicstudio to capture the motion of cassette tapes unspooling.

2010

In 2010, he produced The Clock, a 24-hour compilation of time-related scenes from movies that debuted at London's White Cube gallery in 2010.

2011

At the 2011 Venice Biennale, representing the United States of America, Marclay was recognized as the best artist in the official exhibition, winning the Golden Lion for The Clock.

Newsweek responded by naming Marclay one of the ten most important artists of today.

Accepting the Golden Lion, Marclay invoked Andy Warhol, thanking the jury "for giving The Clock its fifteen minutes".

2013

In 2013, Dale Eisinger of Complex ranked Berlin Mix the 17th best work of performance art in history.

2015

In 2015, the White Cube presented a major solo exhibition including a range of new work and a lively programme of weekly performances played by the London Sinfonietta and guests, including Thurston Moore and Mica Levi.

2016

In 2016, he produced Made to Be Destroyed, a compilation of film clips showing the destruction of art works or buildings.

Thom Jurek writes: "While many intellectuals have made wild pronouncements about Marclay and his art – and it is art, make no mistake – writing all sorts of blather about how he strips the adult century bare by his cutting up of vinyl records and pasting them together with parts from other vinyl records, they never seem to mention that these sound collages of his are charming, very human, and quite often intentionally hilarious."

Marclay has performed and recorded both solo and in collaboration with many musicians, including John Zorn, William Hooker, Elliott Sharp, Otomo Yoshihide, Butch Morris, Shelley Hirsch, Flo Kaufmann and Crevice; he has also performed with the group Sonic Youth, and in other projects with Sonic Youth's members.