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17/6/2012

Two exhibitions

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Bruce Nauman
Days
19 June – 16 September 2012

The ICA is delighted to present the UK premiere of Bruce Nauman’s ‘Days’, a sound
installation consisting of a continuous stream of seven voices reciting the days of the week in
random order. Fourteen flat panel speakers will be installed with one voice emanating from
each pair of speakers as the visitor passes between them. The work invokes both the banality
and the profundity of the passing of each day and invites reflection on how we measure,
differentiate and commemorate time.

Nauman’s work constantly tests rational systems of language, spatial and bodily encounters,
duration and psychology through constructed environments. His pioneering work spans over
five decades and encompasses a wide spectrum of media including sculpture, drawing, site-
specific installation, sound pieces, neon, photography, film, video, performance and
text/language.

Bruce Nauman is one of the most influential artists of our time and we’re delighted to
welcome the seminal work ‘Days’ to the UK. Nauman’s work was first seen in Britain at the
ICA in 1969 as part of the group exhibition “When Attitude Becomes Form”, organised by
Harald Szeeman. It is therefore a great pleasure to bring Nauman’s art back into the building.
Working with multimedia and sound since the mid-1960s, Nauman’s continued influence on
emerging artists is undeniable and I hope that SOUNDWORKS will celebrate his ongoing
inspiration. – Gregor Muir, Executive Director ICA

About Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (b. 1941, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA) studied mathematics, physics and fine
art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and then pursued an MFA at the University of
California, Davis. There artists such as Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley supported his
experimental attitude toward art making.

Nauman’s first solo exhibition took place in 1966 at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los
Angeles and his work also featured in Lucy R. Lippard’s Eccentric Abstraction group
exhibition at the Fischbach Gallery in New York. Nauman’s solo debut in New York at Leo
Castelli Gallery in 1968 was soon followed by a one-man exhibition at Konrad Fischer’s
gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1973, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney
Museum of American Art co-organized the first museum survey, Bruce Nauman: Works from
1965-1972, an exhibition that also travelled in Europe. Nauman’s work was included in the
group exhibition “When Attitude Becomes Form” at the ICA, organised by Harald Szeeman in
1969. The ICA later organised a solo exhibition entitled “Bruce Nauman: Use Me” in 1991.

Nauman’s work can be found in prominent museum collections throughout the world, and he
has been the subject of many major solo exhibitions. Nauman has garnered multiple awards
throughout his career including the Wexner Prize in 1994, the Leone d’oro (The Golden Lion)
along with Louise Bourgeois at the 48 Venice Biennale in 1999, the Praemium Imperiale for
Visual Arts in 2004 in Japan and the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 53
Venice Biennale in 2009. Since 1975, Nauman has been represented in New York by
Sperone Westwater. From 1979 Nauman has lived in New Mexico.

Bruce Nauman’s ‘Days’ was previously shown as part of Bruce Nauman: Topological
Gardens at the 53 Venice Biennale, organised by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and at
The Museum of Modern Art in New York. ‘Days’ is presented at the ICA on loan from
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, gift of the President, on permanent loan to Öffentliche
Kunstsammlung Basel, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Committee on Painting
and Sculpture Funds, gift of The Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, Agnes Gund, The Hess
Foundation, Michael Ovitz, Jerry I. Speyer, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation,
Donald B. Marron, and The Jill and Peter Kraus Contemporary Acquisition Fund.

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SOUNDWORKS
20 June – 16 September 2012

In conjunction with the exhibition of Nauman’s ‘Days’, the ICA presents a series of sound
commissions by a hundred artists from around the world. Selected by the ICA and institutions
worldwide, the artists have been invited to submit a sound work taking its stimulus from the
themes evoked in Nauman’s ‘Days’. SOUNDWORKS creates an online platform for the ICA -
a virtual gallery space both in and outside the building, enabling us to reach out to wider
audiences. One sound work will be featured each day via the platform and all the
commissioned works will be accessible on the website, which will itself become a permanent
archive.

Participating UK institutions include Arnolfini, Baltic, Henry Moore Institute, Modern Art
Oxford, Nottingham Contemporary, Tramway and the Wysing Arts Centre. International
institutions include Beirut Art Center, Lebanon, Kadist Art Foundation, France, Kunstverein
Amsterdam, Louisiana, Denmark, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Canada, Niterói
Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Niterói, Brazil, SALT, Turkey, SFMOMA, and White
Columns, New York.

Participating artists
Adam Christensen
Agnieszka Polska & Tomasz Kowalski
AIDS-3D
Alan Dunn
Alberto Tadiello
Alejandro Cesarco
Alex Waterman
Amy Granat
Andrea Büttner
Andy Holden
Anke Eckardt & Henry Koch
Anthony Discenza
Anthony Green
Artie Vierkant
Asli Çavuşoğlu
Atau Tanaka
Aura Satz
Barry Johnston
Beatrice Gibson
Ben Owen
Benedict Drew
Bonnie Camplin
Bonnie Jones
Brandon LaBelle
Byron Westbrook
C Spencer Yeh
Cara Tolmie
Caroline Devine
Catherine Czacki
Charles Free
Charlotte Prodger
Chelpa Ferro
Chris Kraus & Robert Dewhurst
Clare Gasson
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Cynthia Zaven
Dan Fox
Darius Miksys
David Raymond Conroy
David Tibet
David Toop
Ed Atkins
Edwin Burdis
Emma Hedditch
Eric La Casa
Factory Floor
Florian Hecker
Floriano Romano
Forté
France Fiction
Francisco López
Garrett Phelan
Goodiepal
Haegue Yang
Hanna Schwarz
Haroon Mirza
Helen Brown
Hilary Koob-Sassen
Holly Ingleton
Ida Applebroog
J/K
Jacob Kierkegaard
Jacqueline K Gordon
Jem Noble
Jesse Ash
John Akomfrah
John K. Farah
Juliette Blightman
Kian-Peng Ong
Lars Laumann & Dan-Ola Persson
Laure Prouvost
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Lee Patterson
Liam Gillick & Corinne Jones
Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Louise K Wilson
Lucy Clout
Lucy Raven
Luke Fowler & Richard Youngs
MadeIn Company
Marcellvs L
Maria Loboda
Mariana Castillo Deball
Mark Aerial Waller
Mark von Schlegell
Matt Davies
Matthew Buckingham
Mattin
Max Schneider
Meris Angioletti
Michael Dean
Michele Di Menna
My Barbarian
Naomi Kashiwagi
Nathaniel Mellors
Oscar Murillo
Oswaldo Maciá
Patricia Esquivias
Patrick Coyle
Peggy Ahwesh
Penny Slinger & Dhiren Dasu
Raydale Dower
Richard Aldrich
Richard Higlett
Richard Sides
Robert Wilhite
Rossella Biscotti
S Mark Gubb
Sabisha Friedberg
Salomé Voegelin
Samon Takahashi
Scanner
Selçuk Artut
Sergei Tcherepnin
Shana Moulton
Signe Lidén
Stephen Prina
Steve Bates
Steve Roden
Steven Claydon
Stewart Home
Sue Tompkins
Tim Skinner
Torsten Lauschmann
Toshiya Tsunoda
Tris Vonna-Michell
Trisha Baga
Tyler Coburn
Tyler Friedman
Viv Corringham
Will Rogan
William Furlong
Yan Jun
Yolande Harris

Nominating institutions
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Arnolfini
Artmob
Audio Visual Arts
Beirut Art Center
Centro Cultural Puertas de Castilla
Chapter Arts Centre
Clocktower Radio
Cornerhouse
Crate Studio and Project Space
CRiSAP: Creative Research Into Sound Arts Practice
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Eastside Projects
Electra
Experimental Intermedia
FACT
Firstsite
Focal Point Gallery
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
g39
Henry Moore Institute
Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst - Leipzig
Inhotim
Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
Inverleith House
Journal of Sonic Studies
Kadist Art Foundation
Kettle's Yard
Kunstverein Amsterdam
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art
Midway Contemporary Art
Minsheng Art Museum
MK Gallery
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum
Nordic Sound Art
Outpost
Pavilion
S1 Artspace
SALT
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Silent Barn
Spike Island
The Bluecoat
The Model
The Substation
Tramway
White Columns
White Flag Projects
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art
Wysing Arts Centre
Zerynthia - Radio Arte Mobile
ZKM Medienmuseum

Press view: 18 June 2012

Press information:
Naomi Crowther | Press Officer ICA | naomi.crowther@ica.org.uk | 020 7766 1407

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