{"data":{"id":"35240","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":35240,"topgoose_id":17962,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":35240,"title":"Documentation of Selected Works 1971-75","display_artist_text":"Chris Burden","display_date":"1971–1975","accession_number":"2009.129","dimensions":"Aspect Ratio: 4:3","medium":"16mm and Super-8 film, color and black-and-white, sound, 34:38 min. looped, transferred to video","department":"collection","classification":"Film","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from Randy Slifka","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eChris Burden, \u003cem\u003eDocumentation of Selected Works 1971-75\u003c/em\u003e, 1971–1975. 16mm and Super-8 film, color and black-and-white, sound, 34:38 min. looped, transferred to video, aspect Ratio: 4:3. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Randy Slifka 2009.129. © Chris Burden / Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Documentation of Selected Works 1971-75\u003c/i\u003e is a compilation of visual records documenting Chris Burden’s work from the early 1970s. Running thirty-five minutes in length and shot on Super-8, 16mm film, and half-inch video, the footage shows selections from Burden’s notoriously extreme conceptual performances, with the artist narrating the projects, detailing their origins, context, and other relevant details in a deadpan fashion. Excerpts of eleven pieces are included: among them \u003ci\u003eShoot (\u003c/i\u003e1971), in which Burden allowed a friend to shoot him in the arm; \u003ci\u003eBed Piece\u003c/i\u003e (1972), in which Burden stayed in a bed in a gallery for twenty-two days; \u003ci\u003eIcarus\u003c/i\u003e (1973), in which he jumped onto sheets of glass; and \u003ci\u003eBack to You\u003c/i\u003e (1974), in which he invited someone to stab pins into his body in an elevator while spectators watched on a monitor. Also included are: \u003ci\u003e220 \u003c/i\u003e(1971), \u003ci\u003eDeadman\u003c/i\u003e (1972), \u003ci\u003eFire Roll \u003c/i\u003e(1973), \u003ci\u003eIcarus \u003c/i\u003e(1973), \u003ci\u003eB.C. Mexico \u003c/i\u003e(1973), \u003ci\u003eTV Ad \u003c/i\u003e(1973), \u003ci\u003eBack to You \u003c/i\u003e(1974), \u003ci\u003eVelvet Water \u003c/i\u003e(1974).\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A person aims a rifle at another person standing against a blank wall in an empty room.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:41:36.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:26.076-05:00","images":[{"id":109574,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/35240/2009_129_still.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"3591","type":"artist"}]}}}}