I imagine the steamroller's rollers(?) are empty. Even so, I wonder how much one of those things weighs.

Well there's something you don't see every day. I like how he cut the engine once it was off the ground so you could enjoy the movement in complete silence.

I love Burden's work. He does great stuff.

This makes sense?

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy various forms of art. But what's going on here? I'd like to hear his explanation of it.

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Chris Burden gained notoriety through such performance pieces as 'Through the Night Softly' (1973) in which he slithered through glass on his stomach with his hands tied behind his back. He purchased a prime time television slot and aired a video tape of this performance to much controversy and consternation. His other pieces include having an assistant shoot him in the arm.

I've been searching the internet for his explanationof the 'flying steamroller', to no avail so far. I think it's supposed to be viewed at face value.

"I imagine the steamroller's rollers(?) are empty. Even so, I wonder how much one of those things weighs."

I wonder how much this cost!

I think it's about the visual experience, making a massive object float silently through the air. I remember a piece that was a giant steel wheel, about 3 meters high. He backed a motorcycle up to it and took it up through fouth gear and shut it off. That massive wheel spun silently for days.

Then there was the "crucified on a volkswagen thing".

>> ^southblvd:
This makes sense?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy various forms of art. But what's going on here? I'd like to hear his explanation of it.

re: southblvd.
Just watch. When that heavy steamroller floats above the ground it feels to me as something novel and a little weird to see such a "pushing-on-the-ground" object floating silently above it. Cool to me.
-Karl

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Um, um... *spacy!

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It took some *engineering knowledge to pull this stunt off too.

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This appears to be art for art's sake. Chairman Mao is rolling in his grave.

Spin, Chairman, Spin.

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hell yeahs....

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