Slow Angle Walk Beckett Walk

A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works by Samuel Beckett that describe similarly repetitive and meaningless activities Hands clasped behind his back he kicks one leg up at a right angle to his body pivots fortyfive degrees falls forward hard with a thumping noise extends the rear leg again at a right angle behind and begins the sequence again As in many of his fixedcamera film and video works parts of Naumans body disappear from the frame as he moves close to the camera occasionally he walks offscreen completely while the sound of his footsteps continues on the sound tracks