Over the past three decades, Christian Marclay has produced a remarkable variety of works exploring the convergence of sight and sound, including his award-winning 24-hour film The Clock, 2010. His oeuvre spans a range of mediums, including performance, solo recording, compilation, sculpture, photography, painting, video, and multimedia installation. Much of the artist’s work is based on readymade images, objects, texts, and films. His politically resonant fourteen-minute video installation Guitar Drag, 2000—part of the exhibition Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950—depicts a loudly amplified electric guitar being violently dragged along a Texas country road by a pickup truck, alluding to the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. The artist will discuss his creative process with Damage Control co-curator Russell Ferguson, professor of art at UCLA.

Mike Osborne discusses "Sitebound: Photography from the Collection"

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