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\u201cDa Vinci never slept, he said it was a waste of time!\u201d Kevin Bacon explains to me on a cold Saturday night in October. It\u2019s just after 4am and I\u2019m in London\u2019s Tate Modern. It\u2019s not just me and Kevin though\u2014there are about 150 people in the IKEA-sofa-clad viewing gallery with me, and we\u2019re all here watching The Clock<\/em>. Not an actual clock, but Christian Marclay\u2019s renowned video installation<\/a>, a 24-hour montage of clips sourced from archives that span the history of film. Each clip, either visually or verbally, tells the exact time. \u00a0So, on second thought, I guess we are watching an actual clock.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been at the Tate Modern for just over 18 hours and I\u2019m in thorough disagreement with both Da Vinci and Kevin Bacon. I\u2019ve come to watch all 24 hours of Marclay\u2019s masterpiece in one sitting, and am nearing the kind of exhaustion where you forget your name. I want to experience Marclay\u2019s film in a way that few have before: all-in-one, like the way you drink a pint after being dumped, searching for some meaning behind it all.<\/p>\n

When I decided to spend 24 hours with The Clock<\/em>, I wasn\u2019t sure it was possible. Marclay himself has said he doesn’t think it is. I tried to get a comment from him to see what he would think about my self-assigned task. Unfortunately, by the time the first 24-hour viewing of The Clock<\/em> was open to the public, Marclay was no longer available for questions. So, we\u2019ll just have to go with what he would theoretically say in my head: “Don\u2019t forget to pee”.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":71239,"id":71239,"title":"Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-(high-res)-8","filename":"Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","filesize":61157,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-clock-tate\/christian-marclay-the-clock-2010-high-res-8\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"christian-marclay-the-clock-2010-high-res-8","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71232,"date":"2018-10-16 13:47:38","modified":"2018-10-17 08:46:35","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1024,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":72,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","medium-width":1024,"medium-height":576,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","medium_large-width":1024,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":576,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-8.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1024,"wpvr_mobile-height":576}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

The first hours of The Clock<\/em> were, strangely, the most challenging. The film starts at 10am, and as I settle down Roger Moore coolly checks his watch: \u201cBang on time”. It\u2019s not until you watch an hour or two, however, that you realise each clip builds into a tension that\u2019s never relieved. Everything is an anti-climax. Every face that appears bloodied will suddenly be replaced with one hysterically laughing, or waiting by the window in anticipation, or Danny Dyer. This is anxiety-inducing at first. But by the time Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider<\/em> <\/i>throws his broken watch to the ground at 11.40am, my mind throws down its metaphoric watch to the floor in surrender.<\/p>\n

The Clock<\/em> is a masterpiece, but by 3pm I\u2019m surprised at how banal some of it is. In the morning, people wake up and go to work. At lunchtime, they eat. From around midday, we\u2019re travelling through time by way of a lunch table. Liquid lunch even: Gillian Murphy scolds David Duchovny for having a drink at 2pm. \u201cIt\u2019s not stopping the rest of the people here!\u201d he says as he surveys a black-and-white group of young Brits in a swinging ’60s cafe. \u00a0Finally, a bill is dramatically slapped on an al fresco table out in the pre-war French countryside. You can eat all you like, but ultimately you must always remember to pay.<\/p>\n

Time is money. And, like any structure that\u2019s been hijacked by capitalism, it confines our days to functional temporalities\u2014work, eat, play, sleep, wake, work again. Such are the demands of 24 hours in modern life. So, when the man next to me lets out a bellowing laugh at Jack Nicholson tediously watching the clock so he can leave work at 4.59pm, the IKEA sofas around let out a collective chuckle too. Thank god it\u2019s Saturday.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":71236,"id":71236,"title":"Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-(high-res)-5","filename":"Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","filesize":71720,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-clock-tate\/christian-marclay-the-clock-2010-high-res-5\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"christian-marclay-the-clock-2010-high-res-5","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71232,"date":"2018-10-16 13:47:25","modified":"2018-10-17 08:47:01","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1024,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":72,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","medium-width":1024,"medium-height":576,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","medium_large-width":1024,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":576,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-5.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1024,"wpvr_mobile-height":576}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

As such, The Clock<\/em> never fails to remind me of what I should be doing, rather than stewing in a dark room for 24 hours. 7.30pm is for dinner, 7.30am is for waking up for work. At 3am people have neo-noir sex. I panic: maybe I should be having neo-noir sex right now. I think of the Guy Debord quote, \u201cAll that was once directly lived has become mere representation,\u201d and sigh.<\/p>\n

The Clock<\/em> reflects back to us the degradation of modern life by the homogenising rhythms we live by. Often, it will contrast these rhythms with alternative (though just as futile) ways of being. This means that when we watch Jack Nicholson sneaking around a darkened hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em> at 6.20pm, we celebrate. Although filmed over 25 years later, he is the same Jack Nicholson that was waiting to get out of work at 5pm, and he\u2019s finally free. From the workplace at least, he is now trapped in a mental hospital of course; we\u2019re always going to be prisoners, but we might as well go down swinging.<\/p>\n

At 2am, there\u2019s a man at the back of the gallery snoring louder than the Titanic (literally, we are watching the Titanic sinking). The only clock that can beat The Clock<\/em> is, in this instance, the body clock. This is something I\u2019m struggling with at around 3.30am. \u201cIf the clock stops, I\u2019ll die!\u201d a bedraggled man shouts from the screen, and all I can think whilst sipping my contraband Red Bull is how much I wouldn\u2019t mind dying if it meant I could properly sleep (\u2026lack of sleep makes me a little melodramatic).<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":71235,"id":71235,"title":"Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-(high-res)-4","filename":"Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","filesize":59349,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-clock-tate\/christian-marclay-the-clock-2010-high-res-4\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"christian-marclay-the-clock-2010-high-res-4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71232,"date":"2018-10-16 13:47:23","modified":"2018-10-17 08:47:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1024,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":72,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","medium-width":1024,"medium-height":576,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","medium_large-width":1024,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":576,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-4.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1024,"wpvr_mobile-height":576}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

By 4am, half-asleep, I\u2019m living in a phantasmagoria of mine and Marclay\u2019s making. A car is driving down an endless highway, no wait I\u2019m driving down it. No wait the car is. No wait, I can\u2019t drive! I seriously think about giving up and leaving, but the empty streets on the screen don\u2019t exactly look inviting, and I don\u2019t think the ones outside are any different right now either.<\/p>\n

At this point, the alternative temporalities of The Clock<\/em> become overwhelming, as if each scene is a room in a massive dollhouse of Marclay\u2019s making\u2014the actors are tiny figurines all at the mercy of Marclay\u2019s will. I\u2019m vulnerable from lack of sleep, obviously, and the barrier between me and the screen that was there hours ago has all but gone. The mastery The Clock<\/em>\u00a0has on my psyche is starting to worry me. What if I\u2019m just a character in one of those rooms too?<\/p>\n

Suddenly, I realise I need to wake the fuck up. Asleep or not, this is something The Clock<\/em> certainly makes you realise on all fronts. It\u2019s 8.45a,\u00a0 and I regain control by eating the end of a sandwich I\u2019m not supposed to have in here. That\u2019ll tell \u2018em.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":71241,"id":71241,"title":"Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-(high-res)-10","filename":"Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","filesize":86080,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-clock-tate\/christian-marclay-the-clock-2010-high-res-10\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"christian-marclay-the-clock-2010-high-res-10","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71232,"date":"2018-10-16 13:47:44","modified":"2018-10-17 08:47:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1024,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":72,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","medium-width":1024,"medium-height":576,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","medium_large-width":1024,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":576,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Christian-Marclay-The-Clock-2010-high-res-10.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1024,"wpvr_mobile-height":576}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

To watch The Clock<\/em> in one sitting is a kind of endurance cinephilia fit for anyone self-absorbed enough to spend 24-hours thinking about their own time. (Or anyone that\u2019s able to – not everyone has the luxury of being able to spend 24 hours at a gallery and sleep for the next day.)<\/p>\n

All I can decide when I leave is that I want to live my life by The Clock<\/em>, not the clock \u2013 trapped by time, but irreverently so. \u00a0I stumble out into the light at 10am, wondering what it\u2019s all about, and text my mate to say I\u2019ve survived. \u201cIt\u2019s about time!\u201d they reply. I\u2019m too tired to laugh.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

“The Clock”<\/a> runs through to 20 January 2018 at Tate Modern.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Images credit: Christian Marclay, The Clock<\/em> (2010) single-channel video installation, duration: 24 hours, \u00a9 the artist, courtesy White Cube, London and Paula Cooper Gallery New York<\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\nI watched "The Clock" for 24 hours straight and somehow kept my sanity I watched "The Clock" for 24 hours straight and somehow kept my sanity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-clock-tate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I watched "The Clock" for 24 hours straight and somehow kept my sanity I watched "The Clock" for 24 hours straight and somehow kept my sanity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-clock-tate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-17T08:56:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-10-19T08:35:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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