Chris Burden

Chris Burden (born in 1946 with Boston, Massachusetts -) is a American Artiste .

Biography

He studied the visual Arts, the Physique and the Architecture at the university of Pomona and the the University of California to Irvine, of 1969 with 1971. In 1978, it becomes Professor at the University of California with Los Angeles. He resigned in 2005 following a polemic following the allegations of the university like what the execution of a performance, which has echoed one of proper works of Burden, by a student would have endangered several members of teaching body of which Burden (none of those which were present at the event). The performance used allegedly a charged gun, but the authorities could not justify this. The reputation of Burden as artist of performance started to develop with beginning of the year 70 after a series of performance discussed in which the idea of the personal danger as an artistic expression was central. Its action most known of this time is perhaps the Shoot performance which was made in Santa Anna, in California in 1971, where it was done drawn a ball in its left arm by an assistance to a distance from approximately five meters. Other performances of the Seventies are: Five Day Locker Part (1971), Deadman (1972), B.C. Mexico (1973), Fire Roll (1973), TV Hijack (1978) and Honest Labor (1979).

To leave 1975, it does few performances and begins one period when it created installations and objects treating science and of the policy. In 1975 it created the completely operational B-Car, a light four-wheeled vehicle which it described like being able “to travel 100 miles per hour and to carry out 100 miles per gallon”. Another works of this time is DIECIMILA (1977), a facsimile of an Italian banknote of 10.000 Lire, perhaps the first impression of art (as the money paper) which is printed on both side of paper, The Speed off Light Machine (1983), renewed an scientific experiment with which one “sees” speed of light, and installation C.B.T.V. (1977), a rebuilding of very first televisions.

In 2005, Burden, after a navigation as a recluse on his special yacht, accosted in Newcastle on July 28th after a voyage five days of 330 miles of the Shetland. The project cost £150,000, and received a significant contribution of the U.K. arts council, it was conceived and carried out with the assistance of the department of marine technology of the university of Southampton. It was ordered thanks to computers and a system of GPS, however the boat was accompanied, in the event of urgency”, by a boat of support. Chris Burdin is married with the multi-media artist Nancy Rubins.

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  • Chris Burden, an artist who takes risks

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