Exhibitions
Lori Hersberger: How can You Kill me (I'm Already Dead)
Thu Jan 24—Sat Mar 9 2002
Motorcycle burnout: Revving engines! Deafening noise! Burning rubber! Cheering crowd! A barricaded Chelsea street was the canvas for Lori Hersberger's "burnt rubber painting" where four professional motorcyclists revved their engines and spun their wheels to lay down skid marks and "donuts."
Hersberger employs the bikers' tires as his paintbrush. Rubber tire residue from the burnout is to remain on the street as a visual marker of this spectacular performance/painting.
This was the Swiss visual artist Lori Hersberger's first event staged in the US, followed by his current installation at SI, How Can You Kill Me? (I'm Already Dead) where, on the opening night a second New York BURNOUT was staged.
Organized by the SWISS INSTITUTE-CONTEMPORARY ART, New York. Presented as part of the Downtown Arts Festival's Chelsea Art Walk day. Thanks to Scott Chester, Acid Inc.
