STELARC - Suspension Performances, Ear On Arm, Metaphors, Decopling from Biology, Augmented Reality
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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2012 · Science & Technology
Stelarc - Suspension Performances, Ear On Arm, Metaphors, Decopling from Biology, Augmented Reality For an example of a recent suspension performance, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHagdSBATM&feature=related Confronting, fascinating, transcendent, profound, horrifying, self-flagellating, decadent, courageous, empathetic, which of the above accurately describes Stelarc's 26th Suspension performance at the Scott Livesey Gallery in Melbourne? With 16 shark hooks piercing his back, elbows, and legs Stelarc was supported by wire cables and cranked high above an oversize marquette of his own arm with embedded third ear). Is it body art/sculpture? Or something more or less? Any expression of the excessive physical pain he was experiencing may have unleashed the near palpable anxiety among the audience of 40 present. Ashley Crawford's article in The Age gives a great eye witness account. http://m.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/still-hooked-after-all-those-years-stelarc-suspends-pain-threshold-20120313-1uyia.html
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