Flour Arrangements

Flour Arrangements

Flour Arrangements, a photo series showing Bruce Nauman pushing some piles of flour around on the floor. He uses his body by treating it like...

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Pursuit

Pursuit

Images of sixteen men and women are shown, one by one, as they run on a conveyor belt against a black background. They appear to be in a complete...

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Washing Hands Abnormal

Washing Hands Abnormal

In this work, shown on two stacked monitors, Bruce Nauman washes his hands with a thoroughness bordering on obsession. Each from a different...

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Pacing Upside Down

Pacing Upside Down

This video registration of a performance in his studio shows Bruce Nauman walking the perimeter of different shapes: circles, spirals and figure...

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Anthro / Socio

Anthro / Socio

On three projection surfaces and six monitors, one sees the head of a man shown in different takes. While continually revolving about his own axis,...

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Washing Hands Normal

Washing Hands Normal

This stacked two-screen video installation shows the artist washing his hands with a vigour that goes beyond a daily cleaning ritual. The energy of...

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Art Make-Up

Art Make-Up

Art Make-Up is composed of four individual segments, each 10 minutes long. In them, Nauman appears tightly framed by the camera against a blank...

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Revolving Upside Down

Revolving Upside Down

A stationary camera set upside down and framing a long shot of the studio records Nauman, with his hands clasped behind his back, repeating a...

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Bouncing in the Corner, No. 2: Upside Down

Bouncing in the Corner, No. 2: Upside Down

Nauman, his head cropped from the frame, is shown bouncing in the corner of his studio. Here, however, the images were recorded with a fixed camera...

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Bouncing in the Corner No. 1

Bouncing in the Corner No. 1

For this videotape, Nauman turned the camera sideways and positioned it so that his head is cropped from the frame and his body is presented from...

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Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk)

Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk)

A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works...

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Manipulating the T-Bar

Manipulating the T-Bar

Nauman shot two films in 1965, and despite their rudimentary execution they make a compelling diptych. Manipulating the T-Bar (1965) shows the...

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Manipulating a Fluorescent Tube

Manipulating a Fluorescent Tube

This film records the activities Nauman performed four years earlier in 1965. Both in this performance and in this work he strikes and holds a...

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Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square

Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square

Bruce Nauman - Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance) (1968), 16mm black-and-white film For this film, Bruce Nauman made a...

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Wall-Floor Positions

Wall-Floor Positions

Bruce assumes a set of positions in relation to the wall and floor.

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Good Boy Bad Boy

Good Boy Bad Boy

In the work two monitors are displayed at head height on pedestals. The head and shoulders of a young black man appear on one; on the other is an...

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Walk with Contrapposto

Walk with Contrapposto

"In this videotape Nauman attempted to maintain the contrapposto pose associated with classical and Renaissance sculpture while walking down a long...

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