Good Boy Bad Boy (1985)
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.
Director: Bruce Nauman
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Joan Lancaster as |
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Tucker Smallwood as |
| Directing | Bruce Nauman | Director |