00:00Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Chris Burden.
00:15I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Chris Burden.
00:18I study minimalism. Sculpture, you're supposed to walk around. Sculpture is action.
00:22I figured out that the act of doing something in itself could be on.
00:25And that's how I got to do performances in Colomar.
00:30Performance art, that doesn't make it art.
00:33It only makes a thing that silly people go to see.
00:37He would do things which would be like a slap in the face.
00:41He just walks into the buzzsaw and lets the feathers fly.
00:45We would make an art that couldn't be bought or sold and gain control of it.
00:49You wouldn't buy any art. Why should I buy it? I can make it.
00:52I remember Chris heeling his hands, trying to figure out where the nails could go through without it hurting.
01:01I'm not about death and I didn't want to die, but I wanted to come close.
01:05What if art was violent? What if it was painful?
01:07As American as apple pie.
01:09He was indirectly radicalizing a whole group of us.
01:15We were constantly asking ourselves, what is art? What can art be?
01:19You never felt safe around the big wheel.
01:21There was not a sculpture you could imagine like little kids going up to in awe and wonder.
01:26I can see putting it in the Guggenheim and getting it to spin so fast that it explodes and destroys the museum.
01:32I think he's a brilliant guy.
01:35Ooh!
01:38Here's a guy brought up in Switzerland with the highest level of education.
01:42When you marry him, none of that appeared.
01:45We build this kind of mystic story about Chris Burden.
01:49Chris has never been afraid to make something that manipulates and embraces spectacle.
01:54Every detail is perfect.
01:57It does push your head around a little, otherwise it's not very good art.
02:00I knew then and I know now.
02:02He was going to shift art history.
02:07The crowd seems happy.
02:09Thank you very much, Mr. Burden.
02:13So did you like that video?
02:14Well, of some interesting movie extras facts for you.
02:17Matte paintings were extremely popular before the CGI era.
02:21These are actual projections or paintings placed behind foreground objects to trick audiences into believing the actors were in a different location.
02:29Examples include the Statue of Liberty jutting out from the sand in Planet of the Apes from 1968
02:35and the Emerald City awaiting Dorothy at the end of the Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz from 1939.
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