Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made 3 films of the inside of his body- probing two metres of space into his lungs, stomach and colon. Between 1976-1988 he completed 25 body suspension performances with hooks into the skin.
He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet 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, a prosthetic talking head and has a surgically constructed ear on his left forearm.
Stelarc's work is based on the central idea that the human body has become obsolete, or rather; "biologically inadequate." Since the late 1960's, Stelarc has created a vast and impressive body of work dedicated to the physical enhancement of the human body through technological means. Stelarc suggests that like computers, our physical bodies must be constantly upgraded to evolve and adapt to the highly technological culture we have created.
Quotations:"Well, I think, I've always been uneasy about the artist as simply a craftsperson who just simply makes or produces cultural artifacts that are considered beautiful or sensitive or whatever. What's more intriguing is the artist who works with ideas, who uses their art as a means of exploring the personal and the public and who tries to get a sense of what it means to exist in the world. And I'm much happier if the artist is seen as a poet or a philosopher than as a craftsperson."
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