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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Gauze

Gauze

In this film, Nauman, bit by bit, pulls five or six yards of gauze from his mouth. Along with Black Balls and Pulling Mouth, it is one of the...

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Test Tape Fat Chance John Cage

Test Tape Fat Chance John Cage

Seven screens show videos of as many places in Bruce Nauman's studio during the summer of 2000. He filmed these slices of night life with an...

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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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Violent Incident: Man-Woman, Segment

Violent Incident: Man-Woman, Segment

In this video work Bruce Nauman explores violence, gender and behaviour. Set around a simple middle class dining table, the scene quickly escalates...

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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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Seven Easy Pieces

Seven Easy Pieces

For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own...

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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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Pulling Mouth

Pulling Mouth

This is one of the "Slo-Mo" series of films Nauman shot. Here he distorts his mouth with his fingers for the duration of the film in an inverted...

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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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Elke Allowing the Floor to Rise Up Over Her, Face Up

Elke Allowing the Floor to Rise Up Over Her, Face Up

In 1969 Nauman had devised a set of mental exercises in which a live performer was to concentrate on sinking into the floor or allowing the floor...

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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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Tony Sinking into the Floor, Face Up, and Face Down

Tony Sinking into the Floor, Face Up, and Face Down

In this videotape, a companion to Elke..., the actor's task was to imagine himself sinking into the floor. The resulting images portray him...

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Lip Sync

Lip Sync

An upside-down close-up of the artist’s mouth, Nauman repeats the words “lip sync” as the audio track shifts in and out of sync with the video. The...

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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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Pinchneck

Pinchneck

Experimental short by Bruce Nauman.

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