Chris Burden
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Chris Burden |
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Boston, Massachusetts |
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American |
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1946 |
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Biography
Burden received his B.A. in visual arts, a degree in physics and architecture at Pomona College and received his MFA at the University of California, Irvine.
Burden's reputation as a performance artist started in the early 1970s after he made a series of controversial performances in which personal danger was the focus. His most well-known act is the 1971 performance piece Shoot, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of five meters. Burden was taken to a psychiatrist after this piece. Many interpretations have been made regarding this piece.
One of Burden's most famous pieces, Trans-Fixed took place in 1974 at Speedway Avenue in Venice, California. For this performance, Burden lay face up on a Volkswagen Beetle and had nails hammered into both of his hands, as if he were being crucified on the car. The car was pushed out of the garage and the engine revved for two minutes before being pushed back into the garage.
In 1975 he created the fully operational B-Car, a lightweight four-wheeled vehicle that he described as being "able to travel 100 miles per hour and achieve 100 miles per gallon".
In 1978 he became a professor at University of California, Los Angeles, a position from which he resigned in 2005 due to a controversy over the university's alleged mishandling of a student's classroom performance piece.
He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. |
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