... He established a reputation that year with a performance piece entitled Shoot in which he instructed a friend to shoot him in the arm while a few other close friends watched. Since then he has explored, and presented through his creative works, the culturally popular themes of money, power, military force, ... during his graduate studies at UCI in 1970 that he first began attracting the attention of his peers. He locked himself in a locker for seven days with five gallons of water suspended in the locker above him. (Horvitz). Burden continued doing performance art such as this until 198...

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