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RECLINING STICKMAN

Stelarc
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RECLINING STICKMAN

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4'47''
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RECLINING STICKMAN is a 9m long robot, actuated by antagonistically bundled pneumatic rubber muscles. Visitors at the AGSA can insert their own choreography from a control panel. Anyone, anywhere at any time can remotely access and actuate the robot. A background algorithm intermittently animates the robot if no one intervenes. The droning motor sounds, the solenoid clicks and the muscles compressing and contracting, extending and exhausting are amplified, registering the limb motions and extending the physical presence of the robot. STELARC performed for 5 hours continuously positioned on the torso of the robot on Saturday 29 Feb 2020, 11.30 am - 4.30 pm. Reclining Stickman was streamed and in exhibition from 29 Feb – 16 August 2020.

CREDITS

Wayne Michell, Ternay - Design Engineering. Mark Harrison, Festo - Pneumatic muscles and technology. AITI, Flinders University - Robot fabrication. Steve Berrick - Interactive software and electronics. Special thanks to Leigh Robb, Curator 2020 Biennial of Australian Art. Erin Davidson, Project Officer. Dan Von Schutt and the Installation Team, AGSA Presented as part of the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres. http://stelarc.org/reclining-stickman.php

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Stelarc

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.

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