Physical description:
1971-75, 34:38 min, color and b&w, sound, shot on Super-8, 16mm film and half-inch video digital betacam created by Electronic Arts Intermix on 9/28/2010. Fujifilm D321 Digibeta NTSC format (resolution is 720x480) cassette size is L (holds up to 124 minutes). Digital Betacam records component video with 10-bit YUV 4:2:2 compression. The bitrate is 90 Mbit/s. There are five audio channels - four main channels (uncompressed 48KHz PCM) and one cue track.
Content description:
On the tape are a group of conceptual performance pieces of the early 1970s: "Shoot" (1971) "Bed Piece" (1972) "Through the Night Softly (1973) "220" (1971) "Deadman" (1972) "Fire Roll" (1973) "Icarus" (1973) "B.C. Mexico" (1973) "TV Ad" (1973) "Back to You" (1974) "Velvet Water" (1974) Chris Burden's provocative, often shocking conceptual performance pieces of the early 1970s retain their raw and confrontational force in these dramatic visual records, shot on Super-8, 16mm film, and half-inch video. Guided by the artist's candid, explanatory comments on both the works and the documentative process, these segments reveal the major themes of Burden's work - the psychological experience of danger, pain, and physical risk, the aggressive abuse of the body as an art object, and the psychology of the artist/spectator relationship. This compilation is an historical document of one of the most extreme manifestations of 1970s conceptual performance art. Included are the infamous Shoot (1971), in which Burden allows himself to be shot in the arm; Bed Piece (1972), in which he stayed in bed in a gallery for twenty-two days; and the notorious Through the Night Softly (1973), which featured Burden, arms tied behind his naked torso, dragging himself over shards of broken glass. Also included are: 220 (1971) Deadman (1972) Fire Roll (1973) Icarus (1973) B.C. Mexico (1973) TV Ad (1973) Back to You (1974) Velvet Water (1974).
