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„The visualisation of embodied change inevitable alters our understanding of the body's surfaces; these changes also reconfigure the social value and subjecticity of patients through the visual representation of body reconstruction.“ | „The visualisation of embodied change inevitable alters our understanding of the body's surfaces; these changes also reconfigure the social value and subjecticity of patients through the visual representation of body reconstruction.“ | ||
Referring to Rita Robertos Paper „self awareness and the vehicle air“ we also have to ask the question of isolation of mind and body if we deal with visions as 'PERFECT BODY (living sex machine)'. She writes: „Mind and body are empty of meaning if isolated from each other. This suggests that they cannot be held as opposites and that their relation is not a dual one, since they cannot be isolated as completely seperate parts.“ | Referring to Rita Robertos Paper „self awareness and the vehicle air“ we also have to ask the question of isolation of mind and body if we deal with visions as 'PERFECT BODY (living sex machine)'. She writes: „Mind and body are empty of meaning if isolated from each other. This suggests that they cannot be held as opposites and that their relation is not a dual one, since they cannot be isolated as completely seperate parts.“ | ||
Are body and mind still connected if we may change our outward appearance completely? How do they then still affect on each other? | Are body and mind still connected if we may change our outward appearance completely? How do they then still affect on each other? | ||
Where am 'I'? | |||
Who am 'I'? | |||
The PERFECT BODY (living sex machine) was already exhibited in Brighton at the conference „(re)Performing the Posthuman“. | |||
Up to this point the idea of „posthuman“ in art stuck mostly with technical prosthesis. | |||
Referring to the Australian artist Stelarc: | |||
He presents his body equipped with technological prosthetic extensions such as a mechanical extra hand (Third Hand), a computer controlled performance harness (Movatar), and a pneumatic walking machine (Exoskeleton). | |||
Stelarcs EAR ON ARM project suggests an alternate anatomical architecture - the engineering of a new organ for the body: an available, accessible and mobile organ for other bodies in other places, enabling people to locate and listen in to another body elsewhere. | |||
„Certainly what becomes important now is not merely the body's identity, but its connectivity- not its mobility or location, but its interface.“(Stelarc on his homepage) | |||
In seperation to that PERFECT BODY (living sex machine) is to be seen as | |||
'real living posthuman prosthesis' | |||
questioning our understanding of | |||
subject - object | |||
gender | |||
and (production of) life | |||
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