bruce nauman
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| Going Around the Corner Piece | Stamping in the Studio (1968)
Videotape, B&W, sound, 60 min
Nauman's classic absurdist up-side-down video performance of manic unsynchronised movements.
Stamping in the Studio is from a series of conceptual film and video works made between 1967-69 in which Bruce Nauman investigates the process of making art through performance, gesture, and the use of his body as the object/subject.
Enacting the premise that 'any activity performed by the artist within the artist's studio must be art', Nauman recorded himself undertaking mundane, repetitive activities, often over the period of an hour - the duration of videotape available at that time.
Going Around the Corner Piece (1970)
Closed-circuit video installation, B&W, silent
Visitors are always a few steps behind their images captured by surveillance cameras.
This work plays with the visitor's expectations of the gallery space and the conduct they instinctively follow there. Nauman presents a white cube that cannot be entered. Instead, visitors are faced with a simple closed-circuit set up - a tail-chasing exercise that is amusing yet unnerving in its implications of ubiquitous surveillance systems.
   
   
   
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