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In a highly playful manner, Christian Marclay samples comic and manga motifs to create extensive scores, that are then interpreted by singers and musicians as performative instructions. The artist here, among other things, follows the principle of onomatopoeia, the sound of a word being its meaning. The beholder of such works is also tempted to sing along before his inner eye, in order to give rhythm and sound to these pulsat-ing, dancing word chains. With the help of a cut-and-paste technique quite familiar from popular culture, Marclay remixes our present, for in-stance with picture details …