Stelarc

EXCESS & INDIFFERENCE
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The Cadaver, the Comatose & the Chimera

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talk: duration 70 mins; video documentation above – 73 mins

Stelarc’s statement from the original Festival website:

  1. FRACTAL FLESH / PHANTOM BODIES

By FRACTAL FLESH is meant bodies and bit of bodies spatially separated but electronically connected, generating recurring patterns of interactivity. By PHANTOM FLESH is meant a potent presence of remote bodies, generated by the increasing proliferation of haptic technologies.

  1. CIRCULATING FLESH

Blood flowing in my body today might be circulating in your body tomorrow. Organs are extracted and exchanged. The face of a donor body becomes a THIRD FACE on the recipient. Amputated limbs from a dead body can be reanimated on a living body. And with ORGAN PRINTING of body parts there will be an abundence of organs. An age no longer of Bodies Without Organs but of organs awaiting bodies.

  1. THE CADAVER, COMATOSE & CHIMERA

Cadavers can be preserved forever with plastination. Comatose bodies can be sustained indefinitely on life-support systems. Female eggs are fertilised by sperm that has been unfrozen. The dead, the un-dead and the yet to be born exist simultaneously. The chimera is the body of alternate anatomies that performs with mixed realities.

  1. REDESIGNING THE BODY – INTERNET ORGANS

An EAR ON ARM is presently being surgically constructed and cell-grown on my forearm. The ear now has tissue in growth and vascularisation. It will be electronically augmented to wirelessly connect it to the internet. It will be a publicly accessible, mobile and remote listening organ for people in other places.

  1. INDIFFERENCE, ITERATION & UNFOLDING

The body acts with indifference. An indifference that allows an iteration and unfolding – in its own time and with its own rhythm. An indifference that allows an obsolete, absent, empty and involuntary body perform best as its avatar on the internet. Bodies and machines are ponderous. Avatars have no organs.

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EXCESS & INDIFFERENCE The Cadaver, the Comatose & the Chimera

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Stelarc’s statement from the original Festival website:

  1. FRACTAL FLESH / PHANTOM BODIES

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By FRACTAL FLESH is meant bodies and bit of bodies spatially separated but electronically connected, generating recurring patterns of interactivity. By PHANTOM FLESH is meant a potent presence of remote bodies, generated by the increasing proliferation of haptic technologies.
  1. CIRCULATING FLESH
Blood flowing in my body today might be circulating in your body tomorrow. Organs are extracted and exchanged. The face of a donor body becomes a THIRD FACE on the recipient. Amputated limbs from a dead body can be reanimated on a living body. And with ORGAN PRINTING of body parts there will be an abundence of organs. An age no longer of Bodies Without Organs but of organs awaiting bodies.
  1. THE CADAVER, COMATOSE & CHIMERA
Cadavers can be preserved forever with plastination. Comatose bodies can be sustained indefinitely on life-support systems. Female eggs are fertilised by sperm that has been unfrozen. The dead, the un-dead and the yet to be born exist simultaneously. The chimera is the body of alternate anatomies that performs with mixed realities.
  1. REDESIGNING THE BODY – INTERNET ORGANS Ear On Arm Casts Stelarc.jpg
An EAR ON ARM is presently being surgically constructed and cell grown on my forearm. The ear now has tissue ingrowth and vascularisation. It will be electronically augmented to wirelessly connect it to the internet. It will be a publicly accessible, mobile and remote listening organ for people in other places.
  1. INDIFFERENCE, ITERATION & UNFOLDING
The body acts with indifference. An indifference that allows an iteration and unfolding- in its own time and with its own rhythm. An indifference that allows an obsolete, absent, empty and involuntary body perform best as its avatar on the internet. Bodies and machines are ponderous. Avatars have no organs. stelarc.org/projects.php
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