Big Wrench (1980)

In this narrative performance for video Burden tells the story of his relationship with a truck named Big Job To relate his autobiographical monologue he sits deadpan before the camera with moving images of the truck behind him Writes Burden During a sixmonth period while the artist wrestles with the problem of owning an antique 16000 lb freighttruck Big Job becomes a metaphor for personal insanity I talk about the curse of Big Job my foiled plans to transform the truck into a rolling communications command post or a traveling museum and my difficulty in getting rid of the rig A true story