Bruce Nauman

In his work Bouncing in the Corner, No. 1 (1968), Bruce Nauman was filmed jumping up and down in a corner of his studio with a camera rotated at a 90-degree angle. His body is filmed from the neck to the ankles, while his head is cropped from the screen. Performing this consistent, repetitive motion, which resembles the motion of a horizontally swaying pendulum, Nauman hits the wall again and again with a powerful impact in order to avoid falling. In this manner, he becomes entrapped in an endlessly recurring situation which is both threatening and devoid of narrative meaning.

Born in Indiana, 1941; lives and works in New Mexico