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05/11/2014 GMT

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Performance artist Chris Burden was filmed as a friend shot him in the arm.

Art-graduate Chris Burden was filmed as a friend shot him in the arm. It was one of the most controversial performances in conceptual art took that place in November 1971.

In November 1971 a young American conceptual artist decided to get a friend to take a shot at him. His name was Chris Burden and the shooting would go down in the history of performance art. He has been speaking to Witness about the ideas behind the event. This programme was first broadcast in 2012.

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