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Bruce Nauman has used his own body, language, architecture, neon and video to test what counts as artistic activity. Early studio performances turned walking, bouncing and repetitive actions into works; later corridors and text pieces make discomfort and contradiction spatial.
Video; sculpture; performance; neon; installation
Artist Films
Turning Ordinary Actions into Art with Bruce Nauman | Art21
Art2114 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square
- The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths
- Green Light Corridor
- Clown Torture →
- Good Boy Bad Boy
- Mapping the Studio I
- Anthro/Socio
- Violent Incident
- Human/Need/Desire
- Double Steel Cage Piece
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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