Bruce Nauman was not alone. In the late sixties and early seventies, artists with a proclivity for the conceptual were toying with the video mechanism as a means to explore, first, the body as palette, and then, with time, issues that were medium-specific, such as the displacement of space and the phenomenology of viewing. Vito Acconci's deliberately provocative physical actions, John Baldessari's deadpan lectures, Joan Jonas's ritualized explorations of female identity, William Wegman's droll accounts of the everyday-each added to an intriguing epoch when the tools of television were co-opted for artistic subversions of the conceptual kind.
Then, Not Nauman is presented in conjunction with the gallery exhibition A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s.