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Categories: Action
Keywords: Aggression | Closed-Circuit | Body | Concept
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Works by Chris Burden:
C.B.T.V. (Chris Burden Television)
Chris Burden Promo Shoot TV Hijack TV-Spots
Chris Burden
«Prelude to 220, or 110»
Burden lay bolted with copper bands to a concrete floor, near two buckets of water in which live 110-volt lines had been submerged. Had anyone visiting the gallery chosen to spill the water, Burden would have been electrocuted. Such performances created a context in which it was possible (though not probable) that the artist would die. Fear or pain, Burden said, "energize the situation," and that energy was his subject.
(Source: C. Carr, «On Edge. Let's Make an Ordeal—Young Artists Recover the Conceptual '70s in the Material '90s,» 1998, http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9849/carr.php)
