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Dept. of culture

risk management, art world-style

June 3, 2008  11:56 am

Klein

While it may beat working a day job to sustain after-hours creativity, life as a full-time artist isn’t easy. Big rewards can be sometimes be reaped, but usually only after financial struggle and risk of failure. Yet a few brave artists put more than just self-esteem, money, and creative ambitions on the line. The “Jack *%ss” exhibit at New York’s Susan Inglett Gallery assembles a trove of documentation depicting extreme stunts by art’s greatest daredevils, martyrs, and masochists. Conceived as a contrast to the pointlessly puerile antics of Johnny Knoxville, “Jack *%ss” centers around photos of Chris Burden’s legendary Vietnam-era performance “Shoot,” in which he had an assistant shoot him in the left arm with a pistol. Other works on view demonstrate endurance and integrity by Marina Abramovic, Roman Signer, the Viennese Actionists, Vito Acconci, Sophie Calle, Kate Gilmore, Rodney Graham, Yves Klein, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Carolee Schneemann, all of whom willingly put their *%ss on the line for art.

— Ana Finel Honigman

Photo: Yves Klein, “Saut dans le vide,” courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery

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