Monday, September 29, 2008

Chris Burden Should Stick with Objects/Sculpture/Installations...anything that's not performance art


I googled some of Chris Burden's non performance art to see what that was like and my conclusion is that I like it a lot better than his performance art, which in my opinion, is typically too obvious.

I found this mini-article on "A Tale of Two Cities" and I thought it was really, really interesting. I would love to see this piece.

http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=past&show=exhibit&e_id=2114


1 comment:

Gina said...

after further reflection, I have decided to ammend my statement: not all of Burden's work is obvious in meaning. However, most of these meaning in these works is lost by in the viewer's horror or fascination with the piece itself.