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At least 1 dead, over 20 injured in shooting at all-night Trenton art show
Source: ABC News
By MARK OSBORNE Jun 17, 2018, 7:45 AM ET
At least one person is dead and 20 injured after a wild shootout at a 24-hour art event in southern New Jersey early Sunday.
The shooting broke out at about 2:45 a.m. in Trenton, New Jersey, at Art All Night, an annual event to "promote artistic diversity by fostering creativity, learning, and appreciation of the arts," according to the event's website. The event, held at Roebling Market in the southern part of the city, which lies just across the Delaware River from Pennsylvania, was attended by an estimated thousand or more people, authorities said.
The Mercer County prosecutor's office said at a Sunday morning press conference that the one person killed, a 33-year-old man, is a suspect in the shooting. Another suspect is in custody.
Of those injured, 16 were treated for gunshot wounds and four for other types of injuries, said Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri.
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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/injured-shooting-night-trenton-art-show/story?id=55955575
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burden
Early performance art
Burden began to work in performance art in the early 1970s. He made a series of controversial performances in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central. His first significant performance work, Five Day Locker Piece (1971), was created for his master’s thesis at the University of California, Irvine.[2] His most well-known act from that time is perhaps the 1971 performance piece Shoot, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about sixteen feet (5 m) with a .22 rifle.[5][6] Other performances from the 1970s were Match Piece (1972),[7] Deadman (1972), B.C. Mexico (1973), Fire Roll (1973), TV Hijack (1972),[8] Doomed (1975) and Honest Labor (1979).
Through the Night Softly, September 12th 1973, Main Street, Los Angeles
One of Burden’s most reproduced and cited pieces, Trans-Fixed took place on April 23, 1974 at Speedway Avenue in Venice, California.[9] For this performance, Burden lay face up on a Volkswagen Beetle and had nails hammered into both of his hands, as if he were being crucified on the car. The car was pushed out of the garage and the engine revved for two minutes before being pushed back into the garage.[10]
Later that year, Burden performed his piece White Light/White Heat at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York. For this work of experiment performance and self-inflicting danger, Burden spent twenty-two days lying on a triangular platform in the corner of the gallery. He was out of sight from all viewers and he could not see them either. According to Burden, he did not eat, talk, or come down the entire time.[11]
Several of Burden's other performance pieces were considered somewhat controversial at the time: another "danger piece" was Doomed (1975), in which Burden lay motionless in a gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago under a 5 ft × 8 ft (1.5 m × 2.4 m) slanted sheet of glass near a running wall clock.[12][13] Burden planned to remain in that position until someone interfered in some way with the piece. Forty-five hours and ten minutes later, museum employee Dennis O'Shea placed a pitcher of water within Burden's reach at which point Burden rose, smashed the glass, and took a hammer to the clock, thus ending the piece.[14]
By the end of the 1970s, Burden turned instead to vast engineered sculptural installations.[2] In 1975, he created the fully operational B-Car, a lightweight four-wheeled vehicle that he described as being "able to travel 100 miles per hour and achieve 100 miles per gallon" (160 km/h and 43 km/l).[15] Some of his other works from that period are DIECIMILA (1977), a facsimile of an Italian 10,000 Lira note, possibly the first fine art print that (like paper money) is printed on both sides of the paper; The Speed of Light Machine (1983), in which he reconstructed a scientific experiment with which to "see" the speed of light; and the installation C.B.T.V. (1977), a reconstruction of the first ever made Mechanical television.
In 1978, he became a professor at University of California, Los Angeles, a position from which he resigned in 2005 due to a controversy over the university's alleged mishandling of a student's classroom performance piece that echoed one of Burden's own performance pieces.[6] Burden cited the performance in his letter of resignation, saying that the student should have been suspended during the investigation into whether school safety rules had been violated. The performance allegedly involved a loaded gun, but authorities were unable to substantiate this.[16]
In 1979, Burden first exhibited his notable Big Wheel exhibition at Rosamund Felsen Gallery.[17] It was later exhibited in 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[18]
In 1980, he produced The Atomic Alphabet – a giant, poster-sized hand-colored lithograph – and performed the text dressed in leather and punctuating each letter with an angry stomp.[19] Twenty editions of the work were produced and are largely in the possession of museums, including SFMOMA[20] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[21]
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