{"id":33020,"date":"2014-02-24T18:54:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/star-wars-modern-whos-afraid-of-the-dark-not\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T18:54:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:54:41","slug":"star-wars-modern-whos-afraid-of-the-dark-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/star-wars-modern-whos-afraid-of-the-dark-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Modern: Who’s Afraid of the dark? Not Christian Marclay."},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars Modern: Who’s Afraid of the dark? Not Christian Marclay.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Christian Marclay’s 24 hour video, Clock is the most perfect gallery installation of video I’ve ever seen. In the same way that I am not a cat person, but I love particular cats, I am guardedly pessimistic when it comes to video installations. I have not been to a show, of any kind, that is this good in years. So far I have spent 6 hours watching (easily five hours more than I have ever spent with any other single video installation) and am looking forward to catching as much as I can before the show comes down this weekend. (I am fantasizing about having Clock installed in my house.) This is not just because I enjoy the video itself (although I very much do); it is because this video is installed the way all video art should be installed: three rows of comfortable light grey sofas, four deep that not only allow you to lean back and watch; because they aren’t black, one can easily move about and find a seat. Genius – or at least relative genius, because every other video installation I have ever been in has been so willfully stupid. It is telling that it took a 24 hour video to force a gallery to install video in a way in which it can be watched for more than just a few minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Star Wars Modern: Who’s Afraid of the dark? Not Christian Marclay. Christian Marclay’s 24 hour video, Clock is the most perfect gallery installation of video I’ve ever seen. In the same way that I am not a cat person, but I love particular cats, I am guardedly pessimistic when it comes to video installations. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8AA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}