May 19, 2008
Chris Burden, What My Dad Gave Me
Performance artist Chris Burden, famous for Shoot, in which he had an assistant shoot him in the arm with a .22, and Trans-fixed, in which he was crucified on a VW Beetle, will install a 65 foot skyscraper composed of over a million pieces of facsimile erector set in Rockefeller Center called What My Dad Gave Me.
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“I never thought of my things as theater,” says Burden, a bit baffled that anyone would fail to understand. “They were like scientific experiments. There’s no second time. The first time you do something only happens once.” (In response to a proposed reprisal of Trans-fixed.)