Burden review – how a crazed performance artist mellowed

The late Chris Burden was known for works involving extreme physical peril, but he ended up almost respectable. A compelling new film charts his journeyIt’s a strange path from nailing oneself to a revving Volkswagen to creating a photo-ready oasis of nostalgic, tourist-friendly street lamps. This was the journey of Chris Burden, the sculptor and performance artist whose early, notorious work pushed even the most liberal responses to the unanswerable question “what is art?” Luc