Stelarc artist's talk - Saturday 26th February
CIRCULATING FLESH: FRACTAL, PHANTOM and SURROGATE BODIES
Cork Film Centre (in association with
Crawford Art Gallery) is pleased to host CIRCULATING
FLESH: FRACTAL, PHANTOM & SURROGATE BODIES, an artist's talk by world
renowned performance artist, STELARC,
at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday 26th February in the Lecture Theatre, Crawford Art
Gallery.
Stelarc is a performance artist who has
visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of
the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed 25 body suspension
performances with hooks into the skin. He has used medical instruments,
prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology
to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body.
He
has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a STOMACH SCULPTURE and
EXOSKELETON, a 6-legged walking robot. His FRACTAL FLESH, PING BODY and
PARASITE performances explored involuntary, remote and internet choreography of
the body with electrical stimulation of the muscles. His PROSTHETIC HEAD is an
embodied conversational agent that speaks to the person who interrogates it. He
is surgically constructing an EXTRA EAR on his arm that will be internet
enabled, making it a publicly accessible acoustical organ for people in other
places. He is presently performing as his avatar from his SECOND LIFE site.
Published on: 21 February, 2011
