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- canuck
Man that guy is crazy, I remember in art school, seeing videos of him hanging in mid-air with hooks attached to his skin.....
- 4cY0
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- canuck0
I typed in "<stelarc", and it posted "<<"
Damn you NT, and you trickery.
- woodyBatts0
His work is really amazing..somehwere the's a sound piece made of his laugh, i've heard omn mp3 cvia the web if i find the link i'll post it.
- yoshi_pc0
he was actually the inspiration for my first website back in 1996. it was an informative site about UFOs and Stelarc.. ha man, wish I still had the source files for that stuff, would have been funny to reminisce.
- qoob0
Is the Human Body Redundant?
The increasing ‘liveliness’ of machines and accessibility to the virtual world has raised questions about whether it is possible to uncouple the mind from the body in through a host of different strategies. The basic idea is that if we are able to escape the ties of our own flesh then we can upgrade them and even replace them with immortal ones.
Performance artist Stelarc has made some of the most extreme and enduring work on this subject. The artist characteristically depersonalises his anatomy and claims that it is not only an object that can be subjected to re-designing but is also ‘obsolete’. During his performances, Stelarc mentally ‘vacates’ his own body to prove its obsolescence, and claims that his body is no more than a site for redesigning and re-engineering the human form.