I watched a program on TV about Bruce Nauman about 6 months ago. Bruce is an artist who mainly works in video. Before I watched the program I had seen some art video installations in modern galleries and have to say that I thought most of it was a load of rubbish. I just couldn’t see anything in it.

After watching the documentary on Nauman I completely changed my opinion and actually started looking at video art. The difference between Nauman’s work and art I had seen in galleries was that it was actually funny. Some of it hilariously funny. About 3 months after seeing the documentary on Nauman I bumped into Tom “Atomic Elroy” McElroy on the internet as we were both working independantly on the same project. Elroy’s work reminded me of the Nauman documentry and I really enjoyed watching his video’s. Some are thought provoking, others truly bonkers and also most are slightly comedic in some way. His latest work is entered into the Huffington Post Contagious festival and is worth a look.

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