With its palindrome-like title, this anthology foregrounds the spare poetics of Bruce Nauman’s art practice.
Nauman’s generation extended art beyond the gallery and into the wider public realm, with video, performance, text and installation work that changed the way galleries work.
The interviews in this book reveal the experimentation that led to Nauman’s work, such as the observation that Live-Taped Video Corridor (1970) was a prop.
(In this work, the viewer/s are recorded by a camera above them as they walk towards two monitors, one of which presents the recording, showing them walking away from themselves.)
Perhaps my favourite interview is the one where the normally taciturn Nauman discusses his upbringing, his artistic influences and his work with musicians such as Meredith Monk. And then there is the admission to artist Tony Oursler that an early body of work no longer has meaning for him.
I am developing a commission with artists John Wood and Paul Harrison. Like Nauman, they make performances, presented in finely choreographed videos. Their commission opens at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery on 19 September.
Julia Carver is the curator, modern and contemporary art, at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Nauman’s generation extended art beyond the gallery and into the wider public realm, with video, performance, text and installation work that changed the way galleries work.
The interviews in this book reveal the experimentation that led to Nauman’s work, such as the observation that Live-Taped Video Corridor (1970) was a prop.
(In this work, the viewer/s are recorded by a camera above them as they walk towards two monitors, one of which presents the recording, showing them walking away from themselves.)
Perhaps my favourite interview is the one where the normally taciturn Nauman discusses his upbringing, his artistic influences and his work with musicians such as Meredith Monk. And then there is the admission to artist Tony Oursler that an early body of work no longer has meaning for him.
I am developing a commission with artists John Wood and Paul Harrison. Like Nauman, they make performances, presented in finely choreographed videos. Their commission opens at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery on 19 September.
Julia Carver is the curator, modern and contemporary art, at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
