QCQ Bruce Nauman's Environments
"Nauman's environments consistently figure spectatorial participation as a strange, even alienating, encounter."
""I don't like to leave things open so that people
feel they are in a situation they can play games withā¦. I think I am
not really interested in game playing. Partly it has to do with control, I guess."
I suppose I chose both of these quotes because of the way the came together for me. This "corporeal dispossession" that Kraynak argues is an effect Nauman seems to be completely in "control" of. Yet, he argues this is not a game. That he wants to limit "the performance" of the spectator so that she may remember who is really in charge here. Yet, isn't the act of seduction into these confines a game in it of itself? It says, hey, you are an actor, you may even be the protagonist, but remember - you can't do shit without me. I wrote the lines and I directed the movement. And his reliance on a repetitive outcome is, essentially, game theory.
But what difference does it make to any space? And well, hey, isn't it life. This shifting between access and prevention. This unsettling set of arbitrary experiences in which "the goal of participation is not entirely clear.
Kraynak goes onto write about the shift that occurs, where are begins to become less of an assault and more of a hug. I think this might be because the reality of technology has already set in - we all need one - and yet she's not wrong with how it all sort of masks this economic relationship. Because what sells more than perceived comfort?
Of course, it's impossible to not consider social media as this "tacit form of control in which reciprocity is all but guaranteed and desires and will are exploited, becoming, in effect, forms of submission-or dependency." And thus, we are here, officially. The programmed society. Indeed, this coerced inclusion masks the overt oppression as we all come passive participants in our own domination. This also finds its connection in Nauman's work as it is "Live / Taped" It relies on the filter of reproduction to exist. It rings all too real.
Kraynak then finally get's to the mean of what she's actually interested in, which is how do Nauman's mechanism's not only filter experience but render it largely unmanageable.
Well - nothing is more personally unmanageble then reading Jean Meynaud speak to the absolute sad reality of the day. Beauty, morality, truth etc are all secondary (if that) to the optimization of performance. And knowledge is thoroughly exteriorizing itself while wisdom seems nowhere to be found. Indeed - whoever is wealthy has the best chance of being right.
I suppose my question is, does Nauman jerk off to these videos when he's alone or in a group?
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