Replay Marclay

By: Dylan Rainforth
Date: 14th Nov 07
Medium: Installation
Drink: Anything, as long as you look good holding it

What:
Replay Marclay

Where:
ACMI Screen Gallery

When:
Thurs Nov 15 - Sun Feb 3

How much:
free

Anyone remember Pop Will Eat Itself? No? Probably for the best, but their name and their slogan "Sample it, Loop it, Fuck it and Eat it" pinpoints artist Christian Marclay's attitudes to art, noise, music and film. Marclay's been sampling and recombining things for almost as long as Grandmaster Flash. Key difference is an avant-garde bent that doesn't quit at just mixing and scratching. When this guy cuts a record up he does it with a jigsaw. Tore-build as a Franken-vinyl LP to play Hendrix-style on his custom-made Phonoguitar.

ACMI's greatest video hits package assuredly brings the noise - check out Guitar Drag, where an amped-up guitar is dragged behind a pickup truck. Simultaneously it salutes the great guitar-destroyers of yore and makes you think about recent lynchings in Texas. That's heavy metal. Premiering in Australia are Crossfire, where movie guns get all percussive - it's Tarantino in a shootout with Woo; and Video Quartet,an endless movie musical where Harpo Marx socks it to Presley, who Sinatra never liked anyhow. So get down to Fed Square, and if PWEI call while you're out, tell them "Not now James, we're busy!" Oh, forget it.