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    Chris Burden Wiretap 1977
I thought it was apropos considering all the chatter about this yesterday.

    Chris Burden Wiretap 1977

    I thought it was apropos considering all the chatter about this yesterday.



    April 07, 2010, 11:41am  

    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.

    via stephenfalk



    Reblogged from stephen falk dot com.

    January 18, 2010, 10:18am  

    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.

    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.



    January 07, 2010, 9:01am  

    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?

    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)



    December 01, 2009, 3:40pm  

    Chris Burden at MOCA.

    Chris Burden at MOCA.



    November 15, 2009, 5:56pm  

    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.



    September 28, 2009, 2:59pm  

    Chris Burden Beam Drop Brazil 2009

Is it premature to say this is my favorite piece of 2009? Jumping the gun? Maybe…

    Chris Burden Beam Drop Brazil 2009

    Is it premature to say this is my favorite piece of 2009? Jumping the gun? Maybe…



    August 26, 2009, 9:51am  

    I FOUND IT!!!! It being video from Chris Burden’s Beam Drop in Antwerp from May of this year.  

    Can you imagine having been there? I don’t understand what they are saying, but the anticipation and excitement in their voices is obvious.  To watch something, so large and aggressive, be made just yards away, sigh.  It’s a long video, but absolutely hypnotic.  

    You know what is fun that I hadn’t thought of how noise would play into this, but listening to the groaning of the crane, monotonous but loud and present.  Then intermittently dispersed are the sharp metallic sounds of the beams!! My senses are assaulted and I like it.



    July 27, 2009, 11:02am  

    This still isn’t happening.

I spend too much time on that website.

    This still isn’t happening.

    I spend too much time on that website.



    June 23, 2009, 4:07pm  

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