5'21''

HD

2015

REWIRED/REMIXED: EVENT FOR DISMEMBERED BODY

Description

This is an interactive, online performance that explores the physiological and aesthetic experience of a fragmented, distributed, de-synchronized, distracted and involuntary body – wired and under surveillance. Wearing a heads-up display, the artist sees with the eyes of someone in London, and hears with the ears of someone in New York, whilst simultaneously, anyone, anywhere can program the exoskeleton with a touch-screen interface and generate involuntary movements of his right arm.

The performance was for 5 days, 6 hours a day continuously. His vision was disconnected from his hearing and his arm was disconnected from his intention. It is as if the body has been electronically dismembered, spatially distributed and possessed by multiple agencies.

The performance was from 3 -7 August, with the exoskeleton arm being interactive from 31 July – 4 September 2015.

credits

Steven Aaron Hughes – Project Coordinator, Media Production. Rodney Parsons – Engineering Exoskeleton Arm. Steve Berrick – Programming, Exoskeleton Touch Screen & Web Interface. Luke Robert Mason – Vision From London. Lorin Roser – Sound From New York. Video provided with the assistance of Tanya Drayton, Bodyworks Studios; Robert Devcic, GV Art; Valentina Serrati and Christine Bach, Performance Artist. Special Thanks to Paul Caporn. The performance and installation was made possible by a grant from the WA Department of Culture and the Arts, with support from PICA and Curtin University, Perth. They were part of the “Radical Ecologies” exhibition at PICA, Perth. http://stelarc.org/_activity-20353.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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