How Stomping in the Studio relates to video

     Bruce Nauman's stomping in the studio was a private performance pieces that was record on video to show an audience. I find this piece incredibly long and drawn out which you cant do in other mediums; you can't make a photo or a painting drag on for hours.  A part of video that is different from other mediums is the length. I think Nauman is really testing the audience's attention span with this piece. He is posing the question how long can I get people to watch me do arbitrary and repetitive tasks? People will do repetitive task all day long at work and at home but they don't make a performance piece out of these tasks, maybe if they did they wouldn't seem so repetitive. 

    I am always trying to figure out why he made this video. Did someone ask his process and he said stomping in the studio and they refused to believe him, in turn he made a video and they had to believe his tactics. Or is stomping in the studio the way he releases stress and so he thought it would be soothing for others to watch too. 

     The way it is shot makes it look like a surveillance camera, which makes me wonder is he trying to make the viewer feel like a snoop. The camera is an aerial view, in black and white, not the best quality picture and Nauman never acknowledges the camera. These factors make it seem like its a surveillance camera looking in on what artist really do during their studio time. And if this is a artist in his studio does stomping qualify as "work"? Is this a process leading up to something more, and resulting in a tangible art work?