Artist field note

Bruce Nauman

The studio as a laboratory for discomfort.

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Good Boy Bad Boy by Bruce Nauman
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Good Boy Bad Boy

1985

Two actors repeat moral and emotional phrases until language loses stable meaning.

The five in one idea

Nauman makes repetition expose the strangeness hidden inside ordinary movement, language and space.