Bruce Nauman
Looks at so many themes – observation of the human condition
abrasive engagement with viewer yet humorous, he is a key artist to look at in relation to my work, as I try to address some of the things he successfully showed. Plus his work looks a performance in an exciting way, that I inspiring, through use of chaos, repetition and absurdity etc...
Questions the function of the artist in today’s world – anthropology
… what are you doing, are you wanted here?
Looks at existential behaviour – self-scrutiny of behaviour within
determined parameters, repetition, rhythm and textural meaning.
PheNAUMANology – sound and movement – basic function of
human behaviour
Work – result of experiment in which artists attempts to
give form to a question of idea
A lot of work about frustration and anger with social
situation
INFLUENCES
Duchamp
Man Ray
Samuel Beckett
Jasper Johns
Alain Robbe – Grillet
Vladimir Nabokov
Steve Reich
Phil Glass
John Coltrane
Spectator often physically and psychologically included in a intermediary space where he or
she is the subject to constant surveillance.
Clown torture
-poetics of confusion, anxiety, boredom, entrapment and failure, reflective of my own work. I really like the term 'poetics of confusion' and I think it can be applied to my practice because some aspects of my work are about the absurdities and paradoxical nature of the mind which is in itself poetic. Keep this term in mind with my work in the future.
-wanted to 'make art that was all there at once, almost like getting hit round the back of the head, as you never see it coming, it just knocks you down'
-intensity you can never see whether you like it or not
-IT IS AN ASSAULT ON THE VIEWERS PERCEPTION
-Unhurried delirium
-Clown taking a shit- fellow witness to the madness in the room, I really like this sort of audience participation, not literal but instead the audience is made to very much feel part of the madness in the room.
-Abundance of action, overload of funny anxiety and plenty of clown - manufactured violence time never moves along - stuck in repeat - HELL
RELATES TO MY IDEAS ABOUT ENDLESS LOOP OF THE MIND,myself running away from myself, my mind running away from my mind, my physical self running away from mental self, the ridiculous things like that, i see that in Nauman's video and in other peices of his work. I SEE THAT THINGS CAN BE DONE IN THIS WAY. Abstract subject matter eg time... can be shown through something physical. I need to stop getting caught up in ideas, trying to have reasons for everything. I see I can make practical work that is loosely symbolic. My word is about absurdity and dualities and of course the mind, the clown is an absurd symbol, so i should look for abstract symbols like this, to get me out of this rut.
Clown torture
-poetics of confusion, anxiety, boredom, entrapment and failure, reflective of my own work. I really like the term 'poetics of confusion' and I think it can be applied to my practice because some aspects of my work are about the absurdities and paradoxical nature of the mind which is in itself poetic. Keep this term in mind with my work in the future.
-wanted to 'make art that was all there at once, almost like getting hit round the back of the head, as you never see it coming, it just knocks you down'
-intensity you can never see whether you like it or not
-IT IS AN ASSAULT ON THE VIEWERS PERCEPTION
-Unhurried delirium
-Clown taking a shit- fellow witness to the madness in the room, I really like this sort of audience participation, not literal but instead the audience is made to very much feel part of the madness in the room.
-Abundance of action, overload of funny anxiety and plenty of clown - manufactured violence time never moves along - stuck in repeat - HELL
RELATES TO MY IDEAS ABOUT ENDLESS LOOP OF THE MIND,myself running away from myself, my mind running away from my mind, my physical self running away from mental self, the ridiculous things like that, i see that in Nauman's video and in other peices of his work. I SEE THAT THINGS CAN BE DONE IN THIS WAY. Abstract subject matter eg time... can be shown through something physical. I need to stop getting caught up in ideas, trying to have reasons for everything. I see I can make practical work that is loosely symbolic. My word is about absurdity and dualities and of course the mind, the clown is an absurd symbol, so i should look for abstract symbols like this, to get me out of this rut.
Clown torture
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