Chris Burden
Christopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including Shoot (1971), where he arranged for a friend to shoot him in the arm with a small-caliber rifle. A prolific artist, Burden created many well-known installations, public artworks and sculptures before his death in 2015.
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as Self (archive footage)A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and...
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Velvet Water
as HimselfMay 7th, 1974, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chris Burden relentlessly dunks his head...
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Here Is Always Somewhere Else
as HimselfThe life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975...
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The Big Wheel
as SelfDuring the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald...
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The TV Commercials 1973–1977
as HimselfThe TV Commercials 1973–1977 (1973–77/2000) is a compilation of four video works—TV Ad (1973),...
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Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74
as SelfIn this short compilation, Chris Burden introduces and narrates selected clips from his public...
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