Christian Marclay

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Christian Marclay is a New York-based, Swiss-American sculptor and installation artist who emerged in the 1980s. Also a musician, composer, DJ and filmmaker, Marclay explores the gap between what we see and what we hear, to create what he calls a ‘theatre of found sound’

The artist is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21 St. and 521 West 21 Street (2nd fl.) New York, NY, 10011, USA, tel. 212, 255-1105, fax 212 255 5156, and White Cube, 48 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB, tel. +44 20 7749 7477, fax 20 7749 7470

Jennifer González is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writings have appeared in Frieze, Art Journal and Diacritics. She has also contributed to The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (1995), With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture (1999) and Race in Cyberspace (2000). Recipient of the Joanne Cassullo Teaching Fellowship, she teaches on the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Kim Gordon is a visual artist originally from Los Angeles. She relocated to New York in 1979 and, with partner Thurston Moore, founded the experimental punk band Sonic Youth. She continues to work as an artist, with recent exhibitions Participant Inc. (2003) and Reena Spaulings Fine Art (2004) in New York, and at South London Gallery (2006).

Matthew Higgs is an artist, writer and curator based in New York. His writings have appeared in Artforum, Art Monthly, Afterall and in numberous exhibition catalogues. He is currently Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, New York.

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