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...
See moreContrapposto 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,...
See moreStamping 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...
See moreBouncing 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...
See moreViolin 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...
See moreBlack Balls
In this film, Nauman applies black makeup to his testicles. The action was recorded with an industrial high-speed camera capable of shooting...
See moreWalking 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...
See moreFor 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
See moreViolin 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...
See moreNo, 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!’...
See morePlaying 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...
See moreFlour 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...
See moreWashing 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...
See moreWashing 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...
See moreArt 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...
See moreSlow 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...
See moreDance 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...
See moreThe Bruce Nauman Story
Creative portrait of the artist Bruce Nauman.
See moreWalk 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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