Shock Value

Some artists such as Ana Mandieta and Chris Burdan express their work through more extreme techniques. For example, In Mandieta's work during graduate training in the Intermedia Department mainly consisted of performances of her distorted in shards of glass, or imprinting her body on sheets of paper while coated with animal blood. All of this was part of a collection of videotapes she titled Body Tracks in 1974. 

Mandieta's work resolved around the visceral connections with her body and nature, Chris Burdan made his work intentionally to startle viewers with their vivid imaginary. In his work: Through the Night Softly  in 1973, Burdan is seen crawling on a floor of broken glass with all his limbs tied together. In 1973, he had his friends witness him nearly being lit on fire in his project Icarus. 

It is said that Burdan's shocking and risky intentions express psychological insights into his relationship with the art world.