Going to see Bruce Nauman

Roadmovie, New York – Galisteo, New Mexico. At the end of my studies I had the plan to meet Bruce Nauman and to ask him what I was supposed to do, now that was about to be an artist. (2000)

Diary entry from 06/22/2000:
“Dreamed of Bruce Nauman. He was very shy and withdrawn, but willing to talk to me. We drove around in his car together.
He said: ‘I always wanted to be a singer‘…”

Going to see Bruce Nauman, 2000, video-projection, 11 minutes, ger./engl.

Going to see Bruce Nauman, 2000, video still

Going to see Bruce Nauman, 2000, video still

Going to see Bruce Nauman, 2000, video still

Going to see Bruce Nauman, 2000, video still

Going to see Bruce Nauman, 2000, video still

Going to see Bruce Nauman, 2000, video still

Going to see Bruce Nauman, 2000, video still

Excerpt of voice over:

“… In the beginning everything looked exactly like I had imagined. It was very lonely, there was real desert and just a dirt road. There were tiny villages and I just took some pictures out of the car window, but I got more and more nervous and restless.

(…) And then Ethan suddenly started to say, nay, why, your camera is broken, you can’t do your project anymore and why I still wanted to go there – we wouldn’t have enough time.

So he really tried to block all of this and it took me a long time to convince him to go there. I, really, I was pretty unnerved apart from getting nervous myself even before we left, when it became more and more concrete.

Because I couldn’t explain anymore what I really wanted there and what I actually wanted to do there, then when I would see Bruce Nauman, I mean what should I say to him? (…)”