6'03''

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2015

PROPEL: BODY ON ROBOT ARM

Description

This is a performance where the body’s trajectory, velocity and position/orientation in space were choreographed by a 6-degree-of-freedom industrial robot arm operating within a 3m diameter task envelope. The resulting sound of the robot motors registers the kind of movement, acoustically amplifying the choreography.

The programming was done offline and then transferred to the robot controller. The performance was done with one of the programmers having his thumb on the kill switch, in case the robot did something unexpectedly. The body and the robot become one interactive and aesthetic operational and performing system. When the choreography was completed, the body was replaced by a large sculpture of his ear. The robot that choreographs the ear is the same robot that carved it.

Performance: 29 September, 2015
DeMonstrable exhibition: 3 October – 5 December 2015

credits

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Robot Programming – Hayden Brown, James Boyle, Autronics. Ear Sculpture – Foam Shapers. Design & Production – Paul Caporn. Producer & Director of Video – Steven Aaron Hughes. Photographers –Jeremy Tweddle, Jennette Weber. Special Thanks to Jim Tweddle, Wintech Engineering, Peter Bradbury, ABB Australia Pty Ltd and Oron Catts, SymbioticA. The work was supported by SymbioticA as part of the DeMonstrable Exhibition, curated by Oron Catts with Elizabeth Stephens and Jennifer Johung with the assistance of the Australia Council. http://stelarc.org/_activity-20354.php

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Born 1946 in Limassol, Cyprus, Stelarc is an Australian-based performance artist, who has visually probed, acoustically amplified and suspended his body with hooks into his skin. He pioneered the frontiers of the human body, using his own as a medium and exhibition space– a body that "sometimes seems to include the possibility of terminality" (William Gibson). Artist, icon, a phenomenon, and honoured internationally as distinguished scholar and researcher, Stelarc continues to open up new scenarios on the understanding of the human body related to our time.

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