<![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> @lascauxcaveman:

Ahhh, but if done correctly, and with the proper marketing, it is very well paying bullshit. I speak as one who earned his living for decades by his art, some of which was actually automotive.

Smitty

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> Art is bullshit.

lascauxcaveman

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> Clearly, Chris Burden missed out on the Pinewood Derby.

brandegee

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> @boognish: Spot on.

DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> You can be a greenie or you can be a hoon, but to suggest one can be both is pure sacrilege!

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> @CafeRacer1200: If we all truly appreciated the effort, we'd all be driving VW Phaetons because of their trunk hinges.

Rick Astley

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> It looks like a Chris Craft and a Lotus 7 Had a child with an eating disorder.

boognish

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> Personally, I welcome these thought processes. We can all take from this what we will and leave the rest, but who here hasn't done something that most would consider meaningless, looked at our work, admired it and found the actual function to be anti-climactic to the experience of creating it? Could we put any number of engineers in this category? It may not be expressed the same way, but I suspect the basic feeling is there. Thank you for this eye-opening post and I, for one, look forward to more. We should all be able to appreciate the effort, if not the outcome.

CafeRacer1200

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> For fun, I'll take the counterpoint: Burden may have been more concerned with demonstrating that when anyone builds a car, whether he considers himself involved in an important artistic process or not, he is involved in the process of making art.

His line about "bringing [the car] into existence" alludes to childbirth and the "elaborate fantasy" that process involves (for some). But you can't raise a car as you would a child, only care for it as you would a wrench or knife. Therefore, it makes sense that creating the car was more significant than driving it.

Bumblebee

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> @beercheck: I am now one of those who knows I should have chosen that mode of prose, brotherman.

(perfectionists should be shot)

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> @voodoojoo: Like, whoa. I am now one of those who knows I should have gone with that mode of prose, brotherman.

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> @beercheck: Man, what you gotta do is chill out,man. Like, jive to the beat, man. Man, man. Like, man. Like, you just got to get hip. you know, man? Like, hip, cat, like a hip cat! Yeah man! Get hip! Awww man.

voodoojoo

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> Sounds to me like he simply needs a subscription to 'Wooden Boats' and forget all about the French hyperaesthetic of his 'oeuvre' and it's silly pompadour affectations. It's a car. Nice, but so are a lot of cars. This is less art than a lot of Lotii, in my opinion.

DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> So.... Did he drive it to and from the galleries? Or did he build it and it didn't actually work, so he made up that "essential experience" BS?

Brian Gee

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> @Mad_Science: Truth. What an eye opener it was for him to do something that less enlightened folk do every day.

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> My problem with performance art is the following: had this been a post about a cool car some dude built, with a little writeup about how he liked building it more than actually driving it (as is often the case), I'd say "cool".

But instead we get "the accomplishment of constructing the car had become for me the essential experience. I had already realized the most elaborate fantasy of my life.", which causes me to roll my eyes at his self-importance.

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[Performance Art and the Automobile: 100mpg, 100mph, Chris Burden Was a Greenie and a Hoon]]> Talk about a revolution! He is like the Jimi Hendrix of automotive "art" in my book!

akirachan

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