Stelarc – Circulating Flesh

SATURDAY, 6th NOVEMBER ?6 PM
Regional Museum of Natural Science – Conference Hall, lower ground floor
Lectio Magistralis and Performance by Stelarc Circulating Flesh: From Third Life to Real Life.

We are living in an age of excess and indifference. Of prosthetic augmentation and extended operational systems. An age of Organs Without Bodies. Of organs awaiting bodies. Bodies are phantoms. Flesh is circulating. The body acts with indifference. An indifference that allows the body to be suspended with hooks into its skin, that allows an inserting of a sculpture into its stomach and that allows an ear to be surgically constructed and stem-cell grown on its arm. Perhaps what we need now is not a Second Life but rather a Third Life. This Australian artist, renowned with international audiences for the unbridled use he makes of his body, is a cybernetic nomad. Stelarc presents his latest project The Ear On Arm, where the architecture of the human body is engineered with an artificial ear.