Stunned

February 09, 2005
That was then...

Legendry sixties artist Chris Burden has resigned from UCLA's art department over the university's failure to suspend a student who allegedly fired a gun in a performance, Burden of course is most famous for shoot a performance in which he had himself shot in the arm. There's none as self righteous as the reformed radicals, he should count himself lucky the guy didn't shoot him - now that would be art. The old punk adage never trust a hippie comes to mind.

Newsgrist has a roundup of the evolving story.
You can buy or rent Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74 by Chris Burden which includes Shoot
DVD PAL Exhibition Rental $1,400.00
DVD PAL One-Day Rental $400.00

Remember NCAD's gun incident?

Posted by stunned to art news at February 09, 2005 02:42 PM
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