Erica Battle on Bruce Nauman

Erica Battle is a Project Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There, she has curated Everyday Disturbances, an ongoing installation of contemporary sculpture from the 1980s to today, and Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s-1970s. Past projects at the PMA include: Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956-1974 and Cittadellarte (2011); Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni (2010); William Kentridge: Tapestries (2008); Kiefer, Polke, Richter (2007); and Marine Hugonnier: A Film Trilogy (2007). In 2009, she helped to organize the official U.S. entry to the 53rd Venice Biennale, Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens (2009), which garnered the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. In collaboration with Carlos Basualdo, she is currently organizing a special exhibition featuring the work of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp.