Friday, 23 December 2011

Marclay's time and space

Christian Marclay's works, shown recently at NYC's Paula Cooper Gallery, depict time and space.  His installation Tape Fall consists of a long magnetic tape streaming down an elevated tape recorder and accumulating on the floor to the sound of trickling water, memorializing the passage of time:


His Moebius Loop, consisting of hundreds of cassette tapes woven together, articulates space, twisted: