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Before ‘Jackass’, ‘Rude Tube’ and pretty much everything on the internet that isn’t porn, Swiss artist Roman Signer made pratfalls, mishaps and minor explosions into fine art.

To be is to be observed, Bishop Berkeley claimed. Whether a tree falling unseen in the forest makes a sound or not is incidental. It leaves traces, wreckage, reverberations.

I like working with barrels. Christo was another artist who used barrels, building walls and pyramids with them.