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Burden, Chris «Künstler sind wie mutierende Gene»
Relevant passages:
Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s»
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life» Inke Arns «Social Technologies
Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication» Ursula Frohne «»That's the Only Now I Get« Immersion and Participation in Video Installations by Dan Graham, Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon, Doug Aitken, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sam Taylor-Wood»
Works by Chris Burden:
C.B.T.V. (Chris Burden Television) Chris Burden Promo Prelude to 220, or 110 Shoot TV Hijack TV-Spots
Web-Links:
Chris Burden
*1946 in Boston (USA). After working as a photographer in Europe for several years, Burden studied architecture and arts at Harvard University and at the University of California. He developed his first sculptures and performances during the 1970´s against the background of growing fear and threat of the individual, struggeling in the psychological and social context of a mechanized society. To demonstrate the state of a critical mental and psychological situation, Burden uses his own body as a medium. 1976 he abandoned artistic actions and moved towards a new conception of monumental sculpture. By means of his lecturing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Los Angeles since 1978 Burden is regarded together with Paul McCarthy as one of the progenitors of new «body-centered» artistic developments in California; lives and works close to Los Angeles.
