Good Boy Bad Boy

In the work two monitors are displayed at head height on pedestals. The head and shoulders of a young black man appear on one; on the other is an older white woman. They both speak the same sequence of a hundred phrases five times, beginning in a flat neutral tone, and becoming increasingly animated and intense until by the fifth recitation they appear very angry. Their techniques of delivery are quite different, and result in a slippage of time, so that played on a continuous loop, the two tapes become out of sequence.

Genre:

Duration:

17 min

Cast:

Joan Lancaster, Tucker Smallwood

Quality:

HD

Director:

Bruce Nauman

Release:

1985

Country:

United States

Rating:

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