{"id":3847,"date":"2018-04-19T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2018-04-19T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:38:19","slug":"subversive-mediums-chris-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/subversive-mediums-chris-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Mediums &amp; Chris Burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Chris-Burden-TV-Ads.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3874\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Chris-Burden-TV-Ads-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Chris-Burden-TV-Ads-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Chris-Burden-TV-Ads-768x581.png 768w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Chris-Burden-TV-Ads-1024x775.png 1024w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Chris-Burden-TV-Ads.png 1082w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Chris Burden, Carp TV Ad, 1975<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Burden used television as a platform for his radical performance pieces \u2013 crawling over broken glass, almost getting electrocuted, etc. \u00a0One of his most interesting pieces to me was his financial disclosure, where he stated that he would be the first artist to make a full financial disclosure and proceeded to list his income and all of his business incomes, finally ending on his total profit for the year. \u00a0Unsurprisingly, it was not very high, given that he was routinely paying for airtime for these bizarre pieces. This is something I have always wondered about \u2013 can anyone put an advertisement on television as long as they can pay for the airtime? How carefully are these ads vetted by the station? \u00a0Can they include disturbing content? The reason that I would consider Chris Burden as \u201csubverting\u201d the medium of television is that doing what he did seems to come close to \u201cbreaking the system.\u201d Almost everyone does the same thing on television \u2013 they pay for advertisements only if they think that the exposure gained from the ad will be more beneficial than the money spent. \u00a0However, when someone suddenly doesn\u2019t care about making a profit, they could completely ruin television \u2013 what if someone bought every advertisement spot and turned the ad time into an entire personal show? What if someone were to buy every advertisement spot and just leave it blank? When the advertiser has no product to advertise and doesn\u2019t care about turning a profit, the normal \u201crules\u201d of television are off. \u00a0This, to me, is what makes Chris Burden\u2019s performances so interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chris Burden, Carp TV Ad, 1975 Chris Burden used television as a platform for his radical performance pieces \u2013 crawling over broken glass, almost getting electrocuted, etc. \u00a0One of his most interesting pieces to me was his financial disclosure, where he stated that he would be the first artist to make a full financial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/subversive-mediums-chris-burden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Subversive Mediums &amp; Chris Burden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3166,"featured_media":3870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2652],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}