WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.960 align:middle line:90%


00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:02.730 align:middle line:84%
And this will be the
last poem I read.

00:00:02.730 --> 00:00:05.910 align:middle line:90%


00:00:05.910 --> 00:00:07.320 align:middle line:90%
It's another eclogue.

00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.910 align:middle line:84%
It's also a short
poem and the title

00:00:11.910 --> 00:00:16.350 align:middle line:84%
is "Eclogue in Line to View 'The
Clock' by Christian Marclay."

00:00:16.350 --> 00:00:25.590 align:middle line:84%
And that art piece is
a 24-hour looped film

00:00:25.590 --> 00:00:29.130 align:middle line:84%
that Christian Marclay and many
other artists working for him

00:00:29.130 --> 00:00:35.070 align:middle line:84%
created entirely out of
snippets, excerpts from cinema,

00:00:35.070 --> 00:00:40.020 align:middle line:84%
only excerpts where a
clock or a mention of time

00:00:40.020 --> 00:00:43.950 align:middle line:84%
occur so that you can watch the
entire film or any part of it

00:00:43.950 --> 00:00:47.580 align:middle line:84%
and always know what time
it is because the characters

00:00:47.580 --> 00:00:52.350 align:middle line:84%
on screen are always
concerned with the time.

00:00:52.350 --> 00:00:55.507 align:middle line:84%
It's a fascinating
experience because you're

00:00:55.507 --> 00:00:57.840 align:middle line:84%
used to going to the theater
and losing time in some way

00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.630 align:middle line:84%
and you can't stop
knowing what time it is.

00:01:00.630 --> 00:01:03.660 align:middle line:90%


00:01:03.660 --> 00:01:05.790 align:middle line:84%
The last line and the
last line of this reading

00:01:05.790 --> 00:01:09.600 align:middle line:84%
is kind of a line by
Allen Grossman who

00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:14.580 align:middle line:84%
died just a couple of months
ago, a poet and critic, whose

00:01:14.580 --> 00:01:17.250 align:middle line:90%
death is a real loss.

00:01:17.250 --> 00:01:22.470 align:middle line:84%
The line is from "Summa
Lyrica" in a wonderful book

00:01:22.470 --> 00:01:26.120 align:middle line:84%
called The Sighted
Singer by Allen Grossman.

00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:29.685 align:middle line:84%
"Eclogue in Line to View 'The
Clock' by Christian Marclay."

00:01:29.685 --> 00:01:32.280 align:middle line:90%


00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:37.830 align:middle line:84%
"OK, but now imagine someone,
one of 50, say, in the queue,

00:01:37.830 --> 00:01:41.490 align:middle line:84%
50th first and advancing
little, somewhere

00:01:41.490 --> 00:01:45.030 align:middle line:84%
within the 72-hour
window of efficacy

00:01:45.030 --> 00:01:50.610 align:middle line:84%
for post-exposure prophylaxis,
and later, in the screening

00:01:50.610 --> 00:01:56.160 align:middle line:84%
room, watching The Clock, with a
few dozen others in rows behind

00:01:56.160 --> 00:01:58.890 align:middle line:90%
and ahead who had waited too.

00:01:58.890 --> 00:02:01.950 align:middle line:84%
He knows he has to
but he hasn't yet.

00:02:01.950 --> 00:02:03.780 align:middle line:90%
We pick it up there.

00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:06.990 align:middle line:90%
It is 2011, a few days more.

00:02:06.990 --> 00:02:09.720 align:middle line:90%
The movie tells what time it is.

00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:13.600 align:middle line:84%
In poetry too we
all face forward."

00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:15.350 align:middle line:90%
Thank you.