First I did a panel discussion at the Sphinx Conference and felt so inspired, then I saw 'The Clock' by Christian Marclay at White Cube followed by a Starbucks with my friend Miriam Elia. A great antidote to art depression!
'The Clock' is absolutely AMAZING it really is, the whole way through I was just thinking 'how did someone make this? How was this possible?' Superb. I was sitting there for an hour and I didn't even realise. I urge you to go and see it! I think it'll be one of those classical pieces in the future. Here's a blurb.....
'The Clock' is constructed out of moments in cinema when time is expressed or when a character interacts with a clock, watch or just a particular time of day. Marclay has excerpted thousands of these fragments and edited them so that they flow in real time. While 'The Clock' examines how time, plot and duration are depicted in cinema, the video is also a working timepiece that is synchronised to the local time zone. At any moment, the viewer can look at the work and use it to tell the time. Yet the audience watching 'The Clock' experiences a vast range of narratives, settings and moods within the space of a few minutes, making time unravel in countless directions at once. Even while 'The Clock' tells the time, it ruptures any sense of chronological coherence.'
My second recommendation is 'Living Dolls' by Natasha Walter. Everyone should read this book. I've read it once and now I'm reading it all over again. It really changed how I see the world. Get it now!
