Bruce Nauman, Live-Taped Video Corridor, 1969-1970. two-channel video installation, live video camera, monitors, videotape, playback deck, corridor. dimensions variable (10 m corridor, 2 monitors). Courtesy of the artist and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection, 1992. The 1st Seoul International Media Art Biennale media_city seoul 2000 city: between 0 and 1. Seoul Museum of History. 2000
This seminal work features a narrow corridor installed in the gallery space, designed to be experienced by one viewer at a time. The constricted space makes visitors keenly aware of their own bodies. Two monitors are stacked on top of each other at the far end of the corridor, with the lower one displaying a live feed of the viewer’s back and the upper one showing the empty corridor. This artwork raises questions about temporality, including the nature of the present and its differentiation from the past. While encouraging audience participation, the confining and restrictive corridor simultaneously reveals the skeptical limitations of such participation.
