Incongruous baby pink in the subterranean gloom of DIA Beacon’s vast dungeon-like galleries devoted to Bruce Nauman, sits a thick stack of wafer thin poster sheets. They are copies of Body Pressure (1974), a brilliant early work which invites you to recreate one of Nauman's seminal performance pieces. Having made this discovery and perhaps peeled a poster of your own from the pile, you will begin to notice, when you resurface into DIA’s immense airy galleries above, many familiar flashes of pink, rolled or folded, peeking out of scruffy bags, tucked under armpits, crooked in elbows, or clasped tightly in hands. Then you can imagine each of your fellow visitors returning to the privacy of their own home and following the typed-out instructions which sign off with the unforgettable caution:
Availability: permanent display
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