my favorite stelarc works are from his suspension period. He used to hang himself from tall structures by plunging hooks attached to bungee like cables through specific points along his body: shoulders, legs, just around the spinal chord, etc. and affixing the other end of the cable to the tops of the buildings. the hooks were attached in such a way that his body could not slip off them. To sustain the pain(here's my favorite part) he previously recorded sounds of his internal organs in the non-penetrated state by placing a mic inside of himself, and then, during performance(suspension), played these sounds back at an extremely high intensity as to manipulate his nerves into thinking everything was ok. He would hang from the eiffel tower and famous elevated European railways for several hours. That's just so satisfying on so many levels.
carlos On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Joshua Stephen Landau wrote: > > >stellac (sp?) an australian based performance artist in the 80s used > > >biofeedback. he would place electrodes on himself that would generate > > Stelarc. He's also done some other strange things, like mapping those > same electrical impulses to an Internet ping-map so that the speed of his > twitching was determined by the ping from his location to various places. > Another project involved wiring half of his body to transmit and half to > receive, and mirror-imaging this wiring on a dancer across the continent. > The two then performed a piece together. Interesting fellow, if a bit on > the strange side. > > Josh > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
