%0 Journal Article %T Exerc¨ªcios de conten o, satura o e reitera o: algumas aproxima es entre Bruce Nauman e Samuel Beckett Exercises of restraint, saturation, and suppression: some approximations between Bruce Nauman and Samuel Beckett %A Liliane Benetti %J ARS (S£¿o Paulo) %D 2011 %I Escola de Comunica??es e Artes da Universidade de S?o Paulo %R 10.1590/s1678-53202011000200011 %X Partindo de Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk) [Caminhada angular lenta (Caminhada Beckett)], de 1968, um dos primeiros v¨ªdeos filmados por Bruce Nauman em seu ateli¨º, este ensaio busca examinar poss¨ªveis converg¨ºncias formais e tem¨¢ticas entre alguns de seus trabalhos e a obra de Samuel Beckett, especialmente o emprego da repeti o, da redu o e da conten o como procedimentos fundamentais para se atingir uma esp¨¦cie de satura o da experi¨ºncia que conduz ao esgotamento por meio da recombina o exaustiva de poucos elementos. Departing from some aspects suggested by Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk), 1968, one of Bruce Nauman's first videos shot in his atelier, this essay aims at examining some formal and thematic convergences between Nauman's procedures in a motley universe of works and in Samuel Beckett's pieces, particularly the use of repetition, suppression and restraint as fundamental mechanisms to promote some sort of saturation of experience, leading to depletion, by means of an exhaustive recombination of a few elements. %K Bruce Nauman %K Samuel Beckett %K arte moderna e contemporanea %K v¨ªdeo e performance %K repeti o %K satura o %K Bruce Nauman %K Samuel Beckett %K modern and contemporary art %K video and performance %K repetition %K saturation %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-53202011000200011