Joan La Barbara Performs Christian Marclay's "Manga Scroll" at the Whitney Museum (Part One)

Watch an excerpt from the world premier performance of Christian Marclay's "Manga Scroll" published by Graphicstudio. Manga Scroll is a 60 foot long hand scroll composed from onomatopoeias translated from Manga. The performance took place at the Whitney on July 16th, 2010 as a part of the Christian Marclay Festival exhibition. Joan La Barbara is a composer/performer/soundartist based in New York City. Christian Marclay, artist/composer, explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film in his art. He has worked with Graphicstudio on a number of projects.

More about the Christian Marclay Festival exhibition here: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ChristianMarclay

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[Mousetrap999]

Is the Scroll itself, or a part of it, available anywhere on the Internet?

How long was the entire performance?

[punkduck9]

just... sooo much better than Phil Minton's 45 minutes of torture

[WhitneyFocus]

Hi!

Thanks for uploading this video to Youtube. We'd love to see your videos in the Festival Flickr pool too! Please feel free to join our group on flickr and add them: flickr.com/groups/christianmar­clayfestival

Cheers,

The Whitney