Bruce Nauman: Clown TortureTalking approximately the often self-humiliating nature of clown routines,#BruceNauman observed “You couldn’t get away with that without makeup. People wouldn’t put up with it, it’s too mean. But in the circus it’s okay, or it’s still droll.” In “Clown Torture” (1987),now on view at MoMA PS1, the surveillance-style footage makes the viewer complicit with the distancing perspective of CCTV cameras. Will weallow ourselves to get away with spying on the clown as he desperately tries to fight off boredom while waiting to relieve himself?…[Credit: Bruce Nauman. “Clown Torture.” 1987. Four-channel video installation, or two projections,four monitors, color, or sound. The Art Institute of Chicago. Watson F. Blair Prize,Wilson L. Mead, and Twentieth-Century Purchase funds; through prior gift of Joseph Winterbotham; gift of Lannan Foundation. © 2019 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), or unusual York]
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