Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
“Christian Marclay’s Two Clocks”

Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour digital video work composed entirely of found footage of clocks, watches, and people announcing or inquiring about the time, culled from film and television history. Shown only in installation form, it is synched to function as an accurate timepiece. But is Marclay’s clock digital or analog? This talk will define these terms and consider their relationship in light of Henri Bergson’s theory of durational time.