Interact with Stelarc’s StickMan/miniStickMan
Book your space to interact with Stelarc’s StickMan/miniStickMan at RMIT Gallery.
About this event
You are invited to experience the interactive qualities of Stelarc’s StickMan/miniStickMan (2017) in RMIT Gallery’s current exhibition Future U.
We are offering the opportunity to manipulate StickMan/miniStickMan Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons from 4-4:30pm for the duration of Future U. Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
Stelarc’s robotic installation allows movements to be inserted into StickMan through the articulation of miniStickMan. The artist has interrogated the limits of the body for the past 40 years, augmenting, modifying and subjecting his flesh to various challenges, from bodily suspension to the intrusions of prosthetics, robotics, cybernetics and biotechnology. For Stelarc, the body is a contemporary construct of meat, metal and code. He explores the interconnectedness of hybrid human-machine systems and their increasingly blurred boundaries of aliveness and agency.
Sound Design: Petros Vouris; Engineering: Tim Jewell; Programming: Steve Berrick; Audio Engineer: Alwyn Nixon-Lloyd; Programming Assistance: Stuart James; Technical Assistance and Video Production: Steven Alyian. Stelarc is represented by the Scott Livesey Galleries (Melbourne, Australia).
Future U is on display until Saturday 26 February 2022.
WE ARE COVIDSAFE
We look forward to welcoming you to RMIT Gallery!
Visitors aged 16 years and over must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have a valid medical exemption, in line with the Chief Health Officer’s Directions. All people entering Design Hub Gallery who are over 16 years of age from 6pm Friday 29th October will be required to show one of the following upon entry:
- Your vaccination status via the Service Victoria app on your smartphone
- A printout of your COVID-19 Digital Certificate or an official Immunisation History Statement with a valid photo ID
- An official medical exemption and a valid photo ID. Details on proof of valid medical exemptions can be found below.
Without one of the above, you will not be able to enter RMIT Gallery.
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Once our staff have sighted your vaccination status, you will be asked to check in via the Services Victoria app using our venue QR code.
To make things as easy as possible for you and for our staff, we ask that you please link your COVID-19 digital certificate to the Service Victoria app before your visit to ensure a quick and efficient entry process. We ask that you please be patient and courteous with our Front of House staff who will be facilitating this process. Read how to link your COVID-19 digital certificate to the Services Victoria app.
For the safety of other visitors and staff, we ask that you adhere to the following guidelines to keep Design Hub Gallery COVIDSafe:
- Wear a mask. In line with current government advice, masks are required to be worn inside
- Maintain at least 1.5m distance between yourself and others
- If you are feeling unwell, please do not visit RMIT Gallery
Other measures in place at RMIT Gallery include enhanced cleaning throughout the gallery and hand sanitiser on offer.
INFORMATION ON MEDICAL EXEMPTIONS
You may be able to receive a medical exemption if you are unable to be vaccinated because you:
- have a medical contraindication to COVID-19 vaccines, or
- have an acute medical illness, including COVID-19 infection for up to 6 months (or earlier if the medical practitioner specifies an earlier date)
If you have a medical exemption, please let our staff know. You will need to provide a copy of your immunisation history statement from the Australian Immunisation Register showing your approved vaccination exemption. This is the only way to provide evidence of a medical exemption.
Image credit: Stelarc, StickMan, 2017, aluminium, pneumatics, electronics. Photo Toni Wilkinson.