“Chris Burden guaranteed his place in art history in 1971 with a period of often dangerous and at times stomach-churning performances while still a student in Southern California. He had himself shot (Shoot, 1971), locked up (Five Day Locker Piece, 1971), electrocuted (Doorway to Heaven, 1973), cut (Through the Night Softly, 1973), crucified (Trans-fixed 1974), and advertised on television (4 TV Ads, 1973-77). Burden quit performance in the late ‘70s and artistically reinvented himself, going on to create a multitude of assemblages, installations, kinetic and static sculptures and scientific models, including Urban Light (2008) at Lose Angeles County Museum of Art.” – Magnolia Pictures will be releasing BURDEN, a brand new documentary film about the film and work of Chris Burden on May 5th, 2017.