"Nail me to your car and I'll tell you who you are"

[swag]

Chris Burden inspired more than just David Bowie's Joe the Lion.

“The models were Picasso and Duchamp. I was most interested in Duchamp.”


“At 7:45 P.M. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket .22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.”


He crawls bare-chested over 50 feet of broken glass with arms tied behind his back. WARNING for those who can't tell from the description that they will not enjoy this video: the video features a man crawling over broken glass. You will not enjoy the video.

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1. Aitch owns a replica of his checkbook from the laters 70s.

There was a crazy guy who ran an art curiosity shop in DC up through 1982 or so. He also sold Aitch a copy of Andy Warhol's Index Book which I still possess (nice gift!). No, I still haven't played the cardboard 45 rmp record by Lou Reed that is inserted.

[Hissyspit]

2. I never did get the whole feel for that UCLA incident and the resignation of the Burden's

It seemed kind of hypocritical to me, but I never had a full sense of what happened.

Now I wasn to go listen to Low and "Heroes" again. (Will probably listen to all my Bowie CDs, though.

[swag]

4. Yeah, that was weird.

I might have to poke around to try to get to the bottom of that strange UCLA deal.

[mitchum]

9. The New Yorker a couple of weeks ago had an article about Burden...

where he explains his rationale

[Hissyspit]

11. Thanks. I'll look for it.

[mitchum]

3. Swag, that's proof that you're smarter than I am...

I did play my copy repeatedly (and they are only good for about 20 plays)
But I'm also the guy who peeled off the banana sticker. Yep. A shrink wrapped copy that I found in a beach music record store in 79. $6.99.

Funny about Burden. Just a couple of weeks ago I was trying to convince my wife of Burden's worth. I was unsuccessful. She has little patience with much of the moderne-- "Well, they do that because they can't paint"

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5. Well, you only live once,

so you gotta peel slowly and see.

[Hissyspit]

10. Respond when she says that: "They do that because they are sick of painting."

Meaning, "Why is painting the only valid visual art form?" "Why should art be limited to just the visual media?" "What happens when you feel too constricted or limited by a media - you aren't allowed to explore new and different possiblities?" Ask her why she thinks all art should be limited to artifice. They're not the same thing. That's partially why there are two different words, related but not the same thing.

No offense, but she really doesn't have any excuse for being that intellectually lazy.

[mitchum]

12. She proudly proclaims herself to be middle-brow...

with no apologies about it :)
I kinda thought that a New Yorker article (since it's one of the leading bibles of middle-brow)would validate Burden's work. No luck. Love her anyway.

[datasuspect]

6. i can only say yes to that song

You can buy god it's Monday
Slither down the greasy pipe
So far so good no one saw you
Hobble over any freeway
You will be like your dreams tonight

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7. I hope my fly bitch has that loaded on her Iggy-Pod for the car trip.

And I see I blew a lyric in my original subject line.

[Deja Q]

8. Must... resist... temptation... to... copycat!

:rofl:

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13. Two Words:

Bob Flanagan

[bridgit]

14. 'dear friend' (wink) was there when he nailed himself to his VW...

his MFA thesis at Irvine was, as i recall, existing in a school locker above for a long time, like 72 hrs i think it was, and excreting into the lower locker...he also mentions that painting is for all intent dead, that it is but the residue of the creative process, declared by many the most dangerous contemporary american artist