Stelarc is Sick and Old!

This Australian performance artist is sick, as in awesome and nasty combined in a futuristic supernova. His message is something about the body being OBSOLETE! Oh, us artists and our dumb messages. Here's a message: I think you're a crazy old man, Stelarc, and I like that about you. I hear that you refer to yourself as "the artist" when you give speeches. You're so lame, I love it!

Stelarc's work utilizes high technology and a dash of disgusting.

Here's a summary of his past performances: suspending his naked body by flesh hooks attached to floating rocks (hard to explain for an ex-ESL, look at pic below), allowing website visitors to control his movement by electronic muscle stimulators that connect his body to the internet, attaching a robotic third arm to himself which he could control by using electrodes implanted into his stomach (ewww, there's a video below- you're welcome), building an exoskeleton that you can freakin drive (above), growing an ear into his arm and implanting a microphone in it so website visitors could hear what his arm hears (!!?!?!)....among others.

creepy hot

so right.

I find that the kind of art that catches my attention is not very subtle at all, in fact it is very sensationalist and hyped up which is the opposite of subtle. So Stelarc is right up my alley. Click on the links below if you want more info on the old psycho. Oh yeah, this video will give you nightmares:



LINKS:

STELARC ON WIKIPEDIA
HIS OFFICIAL WEBSITE