The True Artist
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BRUCE NAUMAN I don't remember exactly. I was asked by Tate whether I would be interested in making a proposal, but there was a time limit because if I didn't want to do it, then they would need to approach someone else. So I went and looked at the space -- and it's extremely difficult. I came home and thought about it and decided I could do something with sound; that seemed the best thing for me. After a while I realised that instead of inventing new sounds, I wanted to use spoken text I had recorded over the past 30 or 40 years and make a kind of a collage. The people at Tate said that would be fine, so I got the materials together and went back when the space was finally empty. I was able to test some of the ideas and at that point really refine the way that I thought the project could work.
