FROM EXTREME BODIES TO VIRTUAL SELVES: SUMO, BUTOH, ROBOTS, AVATARS & PERFORMANCE

Bodies are soft and unstable constructs, and in this age of excess, bodies appear as extreme embodiments in excess. And with machine acceleration, sensory augmentation and cognitive computation, the body is amplified, and extended in its functions. Increasingly, the body is expected to perform in Mixed Realities, seamlessly sliding between the actual and the virtual. The workshop elaborates on alternated anatomical architectures, hybrid bodies and hyper bodies. Through a discussion of social, cultural and philosophical ideas of the body, issues of awareness, agency and identity are interrogated - what a body is, how a body performs and what it means to be human in an age of technological speed, power and precision. Having discussed these poetic and philosophical notions of bodily action and machine operation, more practical issues of structuring, framing, timing and enduring a performance will also be considered. 

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Photo Credits:
Re-Wired / Re-Mixed: Event for Dismembered Body, Stelarc

Radical Ecologies, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth 2017

Photographer- Steven Alyian

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StickMan / miniStickMan, Stelarc

HyperPrometheus, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth 2018

Photographer- Steven Alyian

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StickMan / miniStickMan, Stelarc

HyperPrometheus, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth 2018

Photographer- Steven Alyian

STELARC - Performance workshop will be hold at conference room in Goethe Institute, on 23 October, from 10:00 to 12:00 h. 

Working language: English

* This event does not require preliminary registration. 

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