The artist Christian Marclay's ideas and practice, in his own words and those of the foremost writers engaged with his work.

Christian Marclay, born in California and raised in Geneva, lives and works in New York and London. He has had solo exhibitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2001), Tate Modern, London (2004), Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (2008), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011). He was awarded the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Jean-Pierre Criqui is an art historian, critic and curator, and editor-in-chief of Les Cahiers du Musee national d'art moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.