Armed for sound
Posted by Melissa on | June 7, 2007
Melbourne performance artist Stelarc has pulled off an unusual ‘installation’ with the insertion of a prosthetic ear into his left forearm. In a continuation of his unusual and sometimes unsettling body of work (sorry about all the puns) that explores the human body, he convinced a team of surgeons to implant the ear-like structure, which was grown in out of stuff called Medpore.
Stelarc is known for a series of performances in the seventies and eighties that involved him being suspended above the ground using hooks pushed through his flesh. As an arts student I remember being fascinated and repulsed at his original, memorable and bloody work.
He now plans to wire himself for sound - adding a microphone to the limb, which will be connected to a bluetooth transmitter so that you can listen to what the ear is hearing on the artist’s website.
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June 7th, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
That is very cool. Remember when he had some of his limbs wired up so that other people could control them using a joystick?