Name: Wall-Floor Positions at The Museum of Modern Art
Start: 2019-02-17T12:00
End: 2019-02-17T16:00
Location: Floor 6

Performance

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Bruce Nauman. Wall-Floor Positions. 1968. Video (black and white, sound), 60 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 2012. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). © 2018 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Performances start at 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 p.m. and last approximately 30 minutes.

Live performances of Wall-Floor Positions, which was first staged by Bruce Nauman in 1965 when he attended the University of California, Davis, will be presented at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1. As no documentation of the original live event survives, a 1968 video (on view at MoMA PS1) provides the score for this solo performance.

The work will be presented every hour on the hour at The Museum of Modern Art every Thursday and Sunday, 12:00–4:00 p.m., and at MoMA PS1 every Friday and Saturday, 1:00–5:00 p.m.

Performers: Laurel Atwell, Kim Brandt, Paul Hamilton, Honey Jernquist, Jiang Feng 江峰 , NIC Kay, Lydia Adler Okrent, Kiyan Williams

This performance accompanies Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts.
Performer bios

Past events

Sun, Feb 17, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Feb 3, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Jan 27, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Jan 20, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Jan 13, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Dec 9, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Nov 1, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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Sun, Oct 21, 2018, 12:00–4:00 p.m.

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