STELARC - video documentation of performances

STELARC (Australia) - Propel: Body and Ear on Robot Arm, Re-Wired / Re-Mixed: Event for Dismembered Body, StickMan / miniStickMan, video documentation of performances

in Academy Gallery, NAA

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Propel: Body and Ear on Robot Arm

DeMonstrable, Autronics, Lawrence Wilson Gallery Perth 2016

Video- Steven Alyian

The body was attached to a 6 degree-of-freedom industrial robot arm. It’s trajectory, velocity and position/orientation were precisely programmed. After the 30 min performance the body was replace by a large sculpture of the artist’s ear and the same choreography was repeated. The robot that choreographs the ear is the same robot that carved the ear.

Re-Wired / Re-Mixed: Event for Dismembered Body

Radical Ecologies, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth 2017

Video- Steven Alyian

For 5 days, 6 hours each day, the body could only see with the eyes of someone in London, could only hear with the ears of someone in New York, whilst anyone, anywhere could access the artist’s right arm and actuate it via the exoskeleton. Visitors in the gallery were prioritized accessing the arm using a touch-screen interface.

StickMan / miniStickMan

HyperPrometheus, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth 2018

Video- Yeager Strauks

In this continuous 5 hour performance, the body was algorithmically actuated, attached to a 6 degree-of-freedom minimal but full body exoskeleton. Unexpected sequences were generated. A miniStickMan was engineered allowing the audience to insert their own choreography by bending its limbs and pressing the play switch. A kind of electronic voodoo.