Chris Burden Big Wrench (1980)

Duration: 15:12 min, color, mono In this narrative performance for video, Burden tells the story of his relationship with a truck named Big To relate his autobiographical monologue, he sits deadpan before the camera with moving images of the truck behind him. Writes Burden, During a sixmonth period, while the artist wrestles with the problem of owning an antique 16, 000 lb. freighttruck, Big Job becomes a metaphor for personal insanity. I talk about the curse of Big Job, my foiled plans to transform the truck into a rolling communications command post or a traveling museum, and my difficulty in getting rid of the rig. A true