This immediately made me think of a tragic and violent incident that happened a while back. Turns out I was right.
http://www.neongallery.nu/records/ne...ianmarclay.htm
Christian Marclay is an avant-garde visual and audio artist.
Guitar 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 like 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's imagination in contradictory ways. The piece ends up being seductive and repulsive at the same time.
- Christian Marclay, 2001
