Notes taken from Video
- Tate – Turbine hall = voices/sounds not seen but coming from walls – hear a hum in hall anyway
- used pre recorded original sounds
- contradictory in his life, reclusive, doesn’t explain his work, lives in country with his horses
- language – spoken word – written word in neon and prints
- 1966 – burst onto scene, outsider – removed from the metropolis
- time when acceptance that anything can be art – used himself as the material
- Hand to mouth – 1967 – ugh! semi figure
- Cast of space under chair (whiteread afterwards!)
- using found texts (graffiti) etc and playing with them – dyslexic, odor door, raw war
- play with camera – repetitve activity until film ran out
- Tony Oursler – talking about repeating one word – it changes, alters, becomes another word
- architectures like sculptures – viewer became material/narrow corridors
- trying to control viewer experience
- corridors – some set up with monitors creating disconcerting experience – as viewer catches glimpses of self
- creating uncomfortable experience – ‘lifted room’
- being uncomfortable can jolt us out of it too
- floating furniture – chairs, birders – south american sculptures
- Moved to New Mexico
- Tony Oursler – describes Nauman as ‘Conceptual Cowboy’
- 1980’s – return to video – violent scenes, domestic scene of couple domestic violence – repetitive scenes of chair being pulled out – play of agression – swap of roles – relationships
- 1985 – neon sign returns – sex, violence, death, unsettling and funny, pantomime, puppet like
- Carousel – casts of naked animals in a carousel – being scraped around gallery
- “reaction to actions of human beings”
- “Bruce Nauman is about the way you feel” (Tony Oursler)
- no matter how dark they are they can still make you laugh
- Clown Torture – real clown having to experience situations, repeat a joke, toilet, repeating not learning from mistakes
- “constantly questioning and experimenting” (Alan Yentob)