Title
Revolving upside down
1969
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1969
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- digital tape (betacam) shown as single channel digital video, black and white, sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 0:61:00 min; aspect ratio: 4:3
- Credit
- Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund 2007
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 308.2007
- Artist information
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Bruce Nauman
Works in the collection
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About
A stationary camera set upside down and framing a long shot of the studio records Nauman, with his hands clasped behind his back, repeating a series of steps similar to those of 'Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk)'. The curious exercise combines pirouettes, goose steps, and crabbed, angled arabesques. The inverted image further disorients our sense of the manoeuvres, which appear to be taking place on the ceiling.
(Electronic Arts Intermix, http://www.eai.org accessed 7/9/11) -
Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
2008 Biennale of Sydney: revolutions-forms that turn, Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, Sydney, 18 Jun 2008–07 Sep 2008
Art as a verb or How to do things with art, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East, 03 Oct 2014–13 Dec 2014