Watching some of Bruce Nauman's video works on youtube, I came across his 'Art Make-up' (1967) video and was able to sit and watch the whole ten minutes of it.
It is an beautiful video to watch and it makes you so aware of his own body and its movements. It just allows you to watch him without feeling the need to look away, that it is ok to watch this even though it is semi personal.
Nauman's 'Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square' (1967-1968) was shown to me by Andy. I had been to scared to attempt any type of performance art because in my mind it was done in front of an audience, the artist/performer made somewhat of a spectacle of themselves and above that there are so many contexts and so much history to performance art that I felt a little overwhelmed. Felt like to much to tackle. But the simplicity, the fact that 'Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square' (1967-1968) is made for the artist him self and is not trying to shout some sort of statement to it's viewers; made performance art a lot less scary!
Link to Bruce Nauman 'Art Make-up' (1967)
Link to Bruce Nauman 'Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square' (1967-1968)
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