How to go insane
Less playful than the
parking garage installation. Sounds frightening. Heh,
sounds frightening. I crack myself up.
Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Inside the mind of Bruce NaumanThe fifth Unilever Turbine Hall project, Bruce Nauman's Raw Materials, fills the space with a babble of declamations, interrogations and justifications. It comes at you in mounting waves; it whispers in your ear, it comes in shouts and incantations - suddenly an opera, or a radio in the background. Even though there is nothing whatsoever to look at - bar the 18 parallel pairs of speakers running the length of the Turbine Hall, several more on the far end wall, and one dangling from the roof over the bridge - Raw Materials is, almost, a sculpture.
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I first encountered Raw Materials early on a Sunday morning, during a sound check. The first visitors of the day seemed initially confused by the voices, the rising cacophony. Bewildered, many circled about and slowly became entranced, if not a bit scared, while a few hardier souls walked, oblivious, towards the shop or the lifts. When Raw Materials was switched off, everyone suddenly stopped. It was a great moment, a great image. Who says this is a sound piece?
* Ray, 10/15/2004 01:50:23 PM
