Artist field note

Bruce Nauman

The studio as a laboratory for discomfort.

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Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage) by Bruce Nauman — Example from the series
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Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)

2001

Night cameras record an almost empty studio. Mice, insects and chance become performers when the artist leaves.

The five in one idea

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