"Mapping The Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)"
2002-01-10 until 2002-06-16
Dia Center for the Arts
New York, NY, USA

Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage), a new large-scale video installation by Bruce Nauman, records the nocturnal activity in the artist's studio of his cat and an infestation of mice during the summer of 2000.

With seven projections and multiple audio tracks of ambient sounds, Nauman, in his words, used this traffic as a way of mapping the leftover parts and work areas of the last several years of other completed, unfinished, or discarded projects.

Seven greenish gray monochrome video projections will reveal facets of Nauman's studio and the residue of his practice, including molds and equipment. Audio speakers will project ambient sounds of the mice, Nauman's prowling cat, moths, and a screen door, along with other noises indicative of the studio's rural setting. Viewers may catch a dark flash of movement in their peripheral vision as a rodent speeds across the projection, with the occasional profile of the skulking predator or its striking head-on image, eyes glowing as it pauses in its chase.

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