Body Pressure

Performance by Bruce Nauman

Body Pressure is a 1974 performance piece by American artist Bruce Nauman. The performer or viewer is instructed to press "as much of the front surface of your body ... against the wall as possible", then to "[p]ress very hard and concentrate ... Think how various parts of your body press against the wall; which parts touch and which do not". Nauman says that it "may become a very erotic exercise".^[1]

The piece was re-interpreted and performed by Marina Abramović as part of her Seven Easy Pieces in 2005.^[2]

References

^ Bruce Nauman, Body Pressure Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, 1974. e-flux, 2002.
^ Sean Kelly Gallery, "[1] Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine", 2005.

External links

Guggenheim Press Release on Marina Abramović Seven Easy Pieces, November 9–15, 2005
Interview New York Magazine — Provocateur: Marina Abramovic

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Performance art

Work

7000 Oaks (1982)
Amen or The Pederasty (2015)
Bed-ins for Peace (1969)
Breathing in/breathing out (1977)
Body Pressure (1974)
Buried (2015)
Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol (2015)
Couple in The Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West (1992–93)
Cut Piece (1964)
Eating (2012)
Empathy and Prostitution (2013)
Food for the Spirit (1971)
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965)
I'm too sad to tell you (1970–71)
Luminosity (1997)
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015)
One & Other (2009)
Rest Energy (1980)
Rhythm 10 (1973)
Rhythm 5 (1974)
Rhythm 2 (1974)
Rhythm 0 (1974)
Seedbed (1972)
Seven Easy Pieces (2005)
Shot Marilyns (1964)
The Artist Is Present (2010)
The Death of The Artist (2018)
The Fathers (2016)
The Shadow (2014)
The Shame (2018)
Three Weeks in May (1977)
Untitled (Rape Scene) (1973)
Untitled [Senior Thesis], 2008 (2008)

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Media

Mondo New York (1988 film)
Kusama: Infinity (2018 film)

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