Nauman Interview
Arts Magazine, Mar. 1970, v. 44, no. 5, pp. 22-27
An interview with artists Bruce Nauman. He discusses an upcoming show at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles, where he has planned a piece composed of long corridors with television cameras and monitors, meant to limit the audience's ability to see themselves on the monitors. He speaks about his relation to the California art scene, and downplays the influence of the Funk Art movement on his work. The interviewer encourages him to look back on his development as an artist, to criticize his early work and draw theoretical threads between his past and current work. Nauman describes the transformation of his work over his career, as it moves away from material manipulations and wordplay to meditations on body as material and on process, and as he begins to utilize film, video, and sound technology. He finally talks about his philosophical and artistic influences, and considers his art with regard to notions of perversion, therapy, and privacy.
ITEM 1970.005 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Holograms - Making Faces – Bruce Nauman
Collection of Various Flexible Materials Separated by Layers of Grease with Holes the Size of My Waist and Wrists – Bruce Nauman
Lead Tree Plaque – Bruce Nauman
From Hand to Mouth – Bruce Nauman
Six Sound Problems – Bruce Nauman
Performance Area – Bruce Nauman
Henry Moore Bound to Fail (back view) – Bruce Nauman
Untitled (1965) – Bruce Nauman
Flour Arrangement – Bruce Nauman
Dark – Bruce Nauman
Portrait of the Artist as a Fountain – Bruce Nauman
My Name As Though It Were Written On The Surface Of The Moon – Bruce Nauman
Fishing for Asian Carp – Bruce Nauman
Bouncing Balls – Bruce Nauman
Black Balls – Bruce Nauman
Making a Face – Bruce Nauman
Steel Channel – Bruce Nauman
Shelf Sinking – Bruce Nauman