Lauren Rosati
Lauren Rosati is Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and Research Projects Manager in the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and curator of the upcoming exhibitions The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones—Ensemble and Lorna Simpson: Source Notes. She writes frequently on art, sound, performance, and technology.
For those in the know, the abundance of telephones are a self-referential nod to Marclay’s short video Telephones (1995), a kind of precursor to The Clock, for which the artist edited together more than one hundred film clips into a seven-minute montage structured on the narrative arc of a telephone call, from dialing to answering, speaking, and hanging up. There is a long and peculiar historical relationship between cinema and the telephone.
