Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955, San Rafael, California, U.S.) is a Swiss American visual artist and composer whose multidisciplinary work encompasses performance, sculpture, and video. Much of his art imaginatively explores the physical and cultural intersections between sound and image, often through the deconstruction and recontextualization of recorded media and its associated materials. Marclay, whose father was Swiss and mother was American, grew up in Geneva, where he studied (1975–77) at the School of...