Critical Writing Index

Bruce Nauman: The Center of Yourself

by Jan Butterfield

Arts Magazine, Feb. 1975, v. 9, no. 6, pp. 53-55

Bruce Nauman is interviewed by Jan Butterfield about his beginning of video art, discussing the problematic of Nauman's structured approach, yet providing the arena for an open, interpretative response from the viewer. Nauman speaks about his experience in the music-art scene of 1968 and onward. in which Philip Glass and Richard Serra were working together, and the cross-feeds of the disciplines at the time, in addition to his specific goals regarding the audiences experience, elements of fear and the physical, and personal exposure.

ITEM 1975.056 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Tony Sinking Into the Floor: Face up, Face DownBruce Nauman

Green Light CorridorBruce Nauman