Shoot
Burden, Chris

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Date
1971Description
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, two photos of performance. left: close-up of wound. right: Burden after being shot in the arm with a rifle
Type of Work
Performance artSubject
Firearms, Wounds and injuries, Pain, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Rifles, Violence, Performance art --United States
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Item is Part of
110171