Cory Arcangel
Here Comes Everybody
At the heart of this exhibition is the two-screen video installation entitled 'a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould' from 2007. Compiled from over 1100 individual snippets that the artist downloaded off the Internet and edited using software that he himself devised, we are treated to a video version of the 1st variation from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. At a bewildering speed, the images alternate from person to person as each individual plays a completely different instrument, each time performing a single note from Bach's composition. The pianist Glenn Gould used the technique of piecing together various recordings to produce his commercial records, something which Archangel takes here to its humorous extreme.
Cory Arcangel / Bach / Goldberg Variations / Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin - YouTube
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