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Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square
1967-68
A basic walk becomes absurdly deliberate. If the artist is in the studio, Nauman asks, can whatever he does there be art?
Artist field note
Bruce Nauman
The studio as a laboratory for discomfort.
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The five in one idea
Nauman makes repetition expose the strangeness hidden inside ordinary movement, language and space.