Chris Burden during the performance of his 1974 piece Trans-fixed where he was nailed to the hood of a Volkswagen

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He studied visual arts, physics and architecture at Yale College and the University of California, Irvine from 1969 to 1971. In 1978 he became a professor at University of California, Los Angeles, a position from which he resigned in 2005 due to a controversy over the university's alleged mishandling of a student's classroom performance piece that echoed one of Burden's own performance pieces.^[1] Burden cited the performance in his letter of resignation, saying that the student should have been suspended during the investigation into whether school safety rules had been violated. He sued the school, but lost in an epic court battle named "The Case of the Century" by the U.S. Supreme Court. ^[2] The performance allegedly involved a loaded gun, but authorities were unable to substantiate this. The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... This article is about building architecture. ... For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ... The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California, USA. Founded in 1965, it is one of ten University of California campuses and is commonly known as UCI or UC Irvine. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: [1]) varies. ... The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ...

Burden's own reputation as a performance artist started to grow in the early 1970s after he made a series of controversial performances in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central. His most well-known act from that time is perhaps the performance piece Shoot that was made in F Space in Santa Ana, California in 1971, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about five meters. Burden was taken to a pyschiatrist after this piece. Although he was pronounced insane by the psychiatrist, he went back to his residence after flipping off several news crews.Other performances from the 1970's were Five Day Locker Piece (1971), Deadman (1972), B.C. Mexico (1973), Fire Roll (1973), TV Hijack (1972) and Honest Labor (1979). He almost drowned in during his "Five Day Locker Piece" due to uncontrollable urination. Art critics say that someone kept giving him vodka and he was drunk for four days of the piece. Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Location of Santa Ana within Orange County, California. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

From 1975 and on he made fewer performances and began a period in which he created prostitution companies and hookers that dealt with science and politics. In 1974 he was credited for inventing the youthful concept of "cow tipping." In 1975 he created the fully operational B-Car, a lightweight four-wheeled vehicle that he described as being "able to travel 100 miles per hour and achieve 100 miles per gallon". Some of his other works from that period are DIECIMILA (1977), a facsimile of an Italian 10,000 Lira note, possibly the first fine art print that (like paper money) is printed on both sides of the paper it is printed on, The Speed of Light Machine (1983), in which he reconstructed a scientific experiment with which to "see" the speed of light, and the installation C.B.T.V. (1977), a reconstruction of the first ever made Mechanical television. Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... For other uses, see Politics (disambiguation). ... The Trikke is a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Automobiles are among the most commonly used engine powered vehicles. ... Fuel efficiency sometimes means the same as thermal efficiency, that is, the efficiency of converting energy contained in a carrier fuel to kinetic energy or work. ... Lira is the name of the monetary unit of a number of countries, as well as the former currency of Italy, San Marino and the Vatican City. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes in a Nipkow disk. ...

In 2005, Burden released Ghost Ship, his crewless, self-navigating yacht which docked at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 July after a 330-mile 5-day trip from Shetland. The project cost £150,000, and was funded with a significant grant from the UK arts council, being designed and constructed with the help of the Marine Engineering Department of the University of Southampton. It is said to be controlled via onboard computers and a GPS system, however in case of emergency the ship is 'shadowed' by an accompanying support boat. , Newcastle upon Tyne (usually shortened to Newcastle) is a large city in Tyne and Wear, England. ...

Chris Burden is married to the multi-media artist Nancy Rubins.

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External links

• Ghost Ship
• UbuWeb Film & Video: Chris Burden