{"id":2607,"date":"2013-12-21T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2022-12-22T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:21:14","slug":"guitar-drag-christian-marclay-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/guitar-drag-christian-marclay-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"GUITAR DRAG, Christian Marclay (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">On 18 November 1999, Christian Marclay made <em>Guitar Drag<\/em>, a 14\u2032 film that documents a performance he carried out in San Antonio in the Texas desert, featuring a guitar dragged at the end of a rope by a pickup truck equipped with a powerful amplifier placed in the back of the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGuitar Drag has many different layers of references: it alludes to the ritual of smashing guitars at rock concerts, it recalls Fluxus and its many destructions of instruments. It is also a road movie, referring to the landscape of Texas where it was filmed, with references to cowboys and rodeos. It is about violence in general and more specifically about the lynching of James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck. I want the video to have these multiple layers and to trigger people\u2019s imagination in contradictory directions. The piece ends up being both seductive and repulsive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">* <em>\u201cGuitar Drag has many different layers of references, it alludes to the ritual of smashing guitars in rock concerts, it recalls Fluxus and its many destruction of instruments. It is also a road movie, with reference to the landscape of Texas where it was filmed, with references to cowboys and rodeos. It is about violence in general and more specifically about the lynching of James Byrd Jr. who was dragged to his death behind a pickup-truck. I want the video to have these multiple layers and trigger people\u2019s imagination in contradictory ways. The piece ends up being seductive and repulsive at the same time\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">Christian Marclay, 2001, booklet of the vinyl edition by the Swedish label Neon Records in 1,500 copies <em>published in 2006<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Guitar Drag - Christian Marclay (1999) video\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENzw0XGAX2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le 18 novembre 1999, Christian Marclay r\u00e9alise Guitar Drag un film de 14&prime; qui documente une performance qu&rsquo;il a men\u00e9 \u00e0 San Antonio dans le d\u00e9sert du Texas mettant en sc\u00e8ne une guitare tir\u00e9 au bout d&rsquo;un corde par un pick up \u00e9quip\u00e9 d&rsquo;un puissant ampli d\u00e9pos\u00e9 dans le coffre \u00e0 l&rsquo;arri\u00e8re du v\u00e9hicule. \u00ab\u00a0Guitar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[119,125],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditorium","category-musee-du-son","tag-cinema-experimental","tag-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}