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Six Problems in Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman staged his first European solo exhibition in the summer of 1968, showing Six Sound Problems for Konrad Fischer at a Düsseldorf gallery. The noisy installation was constructed entirely on-site, as Nauman recorded the sounds he made while performing repetitive actions: pacing back and forth, bouncing a ball, playing a violin off-key. The audiotape loops were stretched across the gallery and loosely wound around a pencil fastened to a chair. Every day, a different sound would play and the chair would be moved to a different spot, shifting the angle and length of the tape in a radiating pattern. This dynamic setup was reconfigured each day the gallery was open, presenting the rhythms of the absent artist as a kind of fleeting sculpture. The work has become an important milestone in the history of sound as an artistic genre—though why exactly Nauman deemed sound a “problem” here remains an open question.

Inspired by Six Sound Problems…, this panel discussion introduces new perspectives on Nauman from six scholars who have studied his work in depth. Each will speak about a “problem” in the artist’s practice that has long perplexed them. Panelists include Michael Auping, independent scholar and former Chief Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Carlos Basualdo, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Janet Kraynak, Senior Lecturer and Director of MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University; Constance M. Lewallen, Adjunct Curator, University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Joan Simon, independent curator, writer, and arts administrator; and Robert Storr, artist, curator, and Professor, Yale University.

The program, held in conjunction with the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, is moderated by Kathy Halbreich, Executive Director, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Laurenz Foundation Curator and Advisor to the Director, The Museum of Modern Art.











When: Tue., Nov. 13, 2018 at 6:00 pm
Where: Museum of Modern Art
11 W. 53rd St.
212-708-9400
Price: $15
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Bruce Nauman staged his first European solo exhibition in the summer of 1968, showing Six Sound Problems for Konrad Fischer at a Düsseldorf gallery. The noisy installation was constructed entirely on-site, as Nauman recorded the sounds he made while performing repetitive actions: pacing back and forth, bouncing a ball, playing a violin off-key. The audiotape loops were stretched across the gallery and loosely wound around a pencil fastened to a chair. Every day, a different sound would play and the chair would be moved to a different spot, shifting the angle and length of the tape in a radiating pattern. This dynamic setup was reconfigured each day the gallery was open, presenting the rhythms of the absent artist as a kind of fleeting sculpture. The work has become an important milestone in the history of sound as an artistic genre—though why exactly Nauman deemed sound a “problem” here remains an open question.

Inspired by Six Sound Problems…, this panel discussion introduces new perspectives on Nauman from six scholars who have studied his work in depth. Each will speak about a “problem” in the artist’s practice that has long perplexed them. Panelists include Michael Auping, independent scholar and former Chief Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Carlos Basualdo, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Janet Kraynak, Senior Lecturer and Director of MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University; Constance M. Lewallen, Adjunct Curator, University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Joan Simon, independent curator, writer, and arts administrator; and Robert Storr, artist, curator, and Professor, Yale University.

The program, held in conjunction with the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, is moderated by Kathy Halbreich, Executive Director, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Laurenz Foundation Curator and Advisor to the Director, The Museum of Modern Art.

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