Chris Burden : Shoot, 1971

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: "At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend".

[ "Às 19:45 um amigo me deu um tiro no braço esquerdo. Era uma bala de cobre rifle longo, calibre 22. Ele estava a menos de 5 metros de distância". ]

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[Waldir Barreto]

I wish richardmoderate, thank you.

[NascarNixon]

If this is art, then Jackass if the artiest show on TV.

[IStehSHIT]

no

[leeee212]

just watched "perfoming art" drowning video and this video could have easily been faked as well. He should have satisfied my morbid fascination by showing the damage to his arm after the shot.

[Ben Horvat]

That too



[joey miller]

Or he has a mental condition.

[Alexander Wright]

Crazy times calls for crazy actions. This is categorized as performance art, and is usually best portrayed as an institutional critique- which is done so here. "Shoot" was during the Vietnam War and roughly a year after the Kent State shootings by the National Guard. This was not done at a big gallery or institution like the MoMA, for obvious reasons.

[Ben Horvat]

This is art because it is non conventional. It breaks or deconstructs what is seen as art (which was a big part of art in the 1960s and 1970s). It was new and had never been done before in such a context. Art is an ever moving human perception and reaction to things that elicit an aesthetic experience.

[Sara al-saud]

Ok but what I don't get is why is this called art if someone told someone to shoot them in the arm for no reason and what makes it weird is that he actually didn't feel the pain well at least it looks like that how is that possible ?

[Rohit Joshi]

i am confused, you jerked your right arm so fast as if you got shot there instead of the left upper arm.