Americo Burgheim
The practice of Americo Burgheim is centred on the act of generating attention. Until his most recent work Certified, Burgheim was most famous for his collaboration with David Destino in which the duo brought Downtown L.A. to a complete standstill by gathering more than 300,000 people to march in aid of a corporation that did not even exist.
Perhaps the best-known work of 'critical cosmopolitanism' Certified involved the artist spending all day and all night of his touring exhibition confined to his allocated gallery space. During this time, Burgheim relied on dawn raids of the museum café to forage for beverages and covert visits to the museum shop during which he would hunt down merchandize to amuse himself during the long days. When the time came to travel to the next venue on the tour schedule, the artist employed Eppinger III’s Pear Online Translocation Software® (P.O.T.S.®) to make the instantaneous transition between one gallery space and the next.