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Chris Burden The Big Wheel 1979.
On display now as part of MOCA’s First Thirty Years. After this motorcycle turns the wheel, it spins for 2 1/2 hours.
They started the motorcycle at 3pm on Sunday, I don’t know if you can call ahead and ask when they will be performing it, but try to see it. It is really fun/loud/frightening in a roller coaster kind of way.
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Chris Burden The Big Wheel 1979
Another great email from MOCA about their current exhibition Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years. If you have the opportunity to see this show, do. If you live in Los Angeles (or the greater Los Angeles area) no excuses! It is up through May so you have some scheduling time. I know personally, I am going to try and see it at LEAST two more times before then.
“On the first night, when I realized they weren’t going to stop the piece, I was pleased and impressed that they had placed the integrity of the piece ahead of the institutional requirements of the museum.
“On the second night, I thought, my God, don’t they care anything at all about me? Are they going to leave me here to die?
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Chris Burden talking about a performance piece he did for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Roger Ebert has a marvelous article on the experience that you can read here. (hat tip to atencio)
Olafur Eliasson 360° room for all colours, 2002
I can’t stop with the grandeur and romance. This, the Vick piece, and on and on. I need more macarbe, more destruction…I’m going to start looking for Bruce LaBruce or Chris Burden. I need to snap out of it.
Chris Burden Shoot 1971
I was not prepared to actually see this. One can read about it, study it, debate about the “art” of it, but actually seeing it? Wow. Can you imagine having actually been there? I would have had a panic attack.
Chris Burden Beam Drop Brazil 2009
Is it premature to say this is my favorite piece of 2009? Jumping the gun? Maybe…
Michael Govan and his wife walking through Chris Burden’s Urban Lights at the opening of BCAM, in Feb ‘08.
Govan recently announced the closing of the Film Program at LACMA due to financial restraints. People were upset, and now the LATimes has gotten a hold of how much Govan makes a year and is wondering if he’s worth it and what that has to do with the cancelled programs:
In the museum world, there are any number of ways to spend $1 million.
That’s nearly as much as Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will earn this year in salary, deferred compensation and benefits.
That also happens to be how much LACMA’s film program lost over the last decade — a big part of the reason that Govan recently laid off the program’s director and cut the weekend screening series, provoking an outcry from hundreds of cinéastes.
In good times, eyebrows might be raised over whether $1 million a year is a fair wage for a director of a nonprofit museum. But in the midst of a recession that has forced budget cuts and layoffs at museums around the country, the issue becomes more loaded. continued here…
Since no one asked, here’s my two cents…
I think that running LACMA is a $1m job (and he barely makes that, details here), he shouldn’t defend it by saying he has kids or an ex wife because no one else gets to, but being a director is a 24/7 job and dealing with everything at an institution of that size is complicated, multifaceted and difficult. I will admit he needs some pr practice, because he is really showing how the last two years are really weighing on him. So many bad decisions and not enough good, mismanagement and bad expenditure choices (Koons’ Train?) and not enough good pr on the things that could bring positive attention. I’m starting to think that he just can’t hack it.
If I am going to be 100% candid, I honestly don’t think, no matter who throws money at the film program that it will make it successful. It’s a nice idea but obviously it needs some time off to reconstruct itself and advertise itself. People get very upset when you take something away from them, but I bet if you ask 90% of the people complaining, they didn’t go to the films when they were being shown (Martin Scorsese, I’m talking to you).
I don’t want this to be misconstrued as “I don’t care about film”, I do, passionately, especially in this transition to digital I think it is vitally important to focus on film as we already know how to archive it approrpiately and with digital we really don’t. I also am not a fan of cutting out programs at museums, because I know some people did go and enjoy them, but if the program needs to be reconfigured or restructured, well, it needs to be restructured. There is a way to have a film program that doesn’t lose money at LACMA, I’m sure of it, but I don’t think that everyone pulling out their pitchforks at Michael Govan and analyzing every dollar he makes is the way to rationally look at what is going on to institutions all around the world.
» Regarding the physics Chris Burden's Beam Drop
sympathyfortheartgallery was kind enough to translate the Dutch being spoken during the video of Beam Drop, and I want everyone to walk away from here learning just one thing: Regardeless of weight/mass, everything falls at the same 9.8 m/s^2. The only thing that mass effects, is the force that the object hits the ground with. The only thing that would factor into the speed with which the beams hit the ground would be air resistence, which is negligable considering the circumstances.
Class dismissed.
