Shoot

conceptual artist: Chris Burden (American, 1946-)
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/2198
Date
1971
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Performance took place at F Space, Santa Ana, California. F Space 441 Exposition Blvd. (at Flower) Los Angeles, CA 90007 http://www.usc.edu/dept/finearts/fspace/about.html"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." (Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey. Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1971. p. 53.)
 
full view, friend firing rifle at Burden
 
Type of Work
Performance art
Subject
Firearms, Wounds and injuries, Pain, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Rifles, Violence, Performance art --United States
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(c) Art on File, Inc.
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