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Categories: Video
Keywords: Minimalism | Process
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Works by Bruce Nauman:
Anthro-Socio
Bouncing in the Corner #1 Lip Sync Live-Taped Video Corridor Perfect Balance (Pink Andrew with plug hanging with T.V.) Raw Material – BRRR Video Surveillance Piece: Public Room, Private Room Violin Tuned D.E.A.D.
Check as well:
Bruce Nauman
«Slow Angle Walk»
Like with so many of Nauman’s video and film works from 1968 to 1969, this early video tape too, investigates the human body as an instrument of the consciousness: «The camera lies on its side and registers for an hour everything that happens in the studio. The actor, Nauman himself, moves back and forth through the space with stiffened legs, disregarding the logic of a straight line. This method suggests the pages of description found in [Beckett’s] ‹Molloy› in which the protagonist stumbles forward on stiffened legs without bending a knee or stopping.»
(Source: Bruce Nauman. Image/Text 1966–1996, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Hatje-Cantz: Ostfildern, 1997, p. 69.)
