Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)

Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)

The artist Bruce Nauman set the corner post of a fence on his ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico, one day and videotaped the process. As the title of...

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Contrapposto Studies, I through VII

Contrapposto Studies, I through VII

This exhibition presents a new work by Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, I through VII, which continues the artist's exploration of video, sound,...

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Stamping in the Studio

Stamping in the Studio

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a...

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Bouncing Balls

Bouncing Balls

In this film, Nauman bounces his testicles with one hand. Shot in extreme close-up, the work is perhaps an ironic reference to an earlier film...

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Violin Tuned D.E.A.D

Violin Tuned D.E.A.D

In an earlier film, Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Violin #1), Nauman played a single note on the violin as he walked...

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Black Balls

Black Balls

In this film, Nauman applies black makeup to his testicles. The action was recorded with an industrial high-speed camera capable of shooting...

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Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square

Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square

In this silent film, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a large square marked off with masking tape. He shifts his hips exaggeratedly as he...

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For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and finger)

For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and finger)

HD video installation (color, stereo sound), continuous play, two HD video sources, two HD video projectors, four speakers

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Violin Film #1 (Playing The Violin As Fast As I Can)

Violin Film #1 (Playing The Violin As Fast As I Can)

Violin Film #1 (Playing the Violin as Fast as I Can), is one of several 1967-68 films featuring Nauman's violin-playing, in which the production of...

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No, No

No, No

“Two color monitors placed in the window played one of Nauman’s most recent videos, that of a clown jumping up and down shouting ‘No, No, No, No!’...

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Playing a Note on the Violin While I Walk Around in the Studio

Playing a Note on the Violin While I Walk Around in the Studio

In this film record of a studio activity, Nauman set himself the task of walking while playing "two notes [on a violin] very close together so that...

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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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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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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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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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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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The Bruce Nauman Story

The Bruce Nauman Story

Creative portrait of the artist Bruce Nauman.

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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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