Event22 Feb 2022
Future U: Patricia Piccinini and Evelyn Tsitas in conversation
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Stelarc’s StickMan / miniStickMan live performance
Join us for a special live durational performance by Stelarc.
StickMan / miniStickMan is an interactive installation which is animated by a background algorithm. For the performance, Stelarc will be actuated by the StickMan exoskeleton, with visitors able to insert their own movements by bending the limbs of the miniStickMan, contributing to the choreography. Stelarc can pivot on one leg, manipulating his projected shadow and modulating the live video feedback – an interplay of automated and improvised movements. Sensors on the spine of the exoskeleton generate the soundscape.
For decades, Stelarc has interrogated the limits of his body, augmenting, modifying and subjecting his flesh to various challenges, from bodily suspension to the intrusions of prosthetics, robotics, cybernetics, and biotechnology. For Stelarc, the contemporary body has become a contemporary chimera of meat, metal and code. He explores the interconnections of hybrid human-machine systems and their increasingly blurred boundaries of human agency and machine aliveness. The StickMan / miniStickMan performance explores alternative anatomical architectures of biology and technology. Rather than issues of control and coercion, the interaction generates additional operational and performative possibilities.
This event coincides with the closing day of Future U.
Where: RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston St, Melbourne.
When: Saturday 26 February, 12.30-5pm
How much: Free
RMIT Gallery has enacted a number of safety and hygiene measures to keep our audiences and staff safe. Please read our COVIDSafe Guidelines before attending this event. Visitors aged 16 years and over must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have a valid medical exemption, and you must check in upon arrival.
Sound design Petros Vouris; engineering Tim Jewell; programming Steve Berrick; audio engineer Alwyn Nixon-Lloyd; technical assistance and video production Steven Alyian. Image: StickMan/miniStickMan, 2017, aluminium, pneumatics, electronics. Documentation of The Dedalus Project: Chrissie Parrot Arts, Perth, 2017. Photo: Toni Wilkinson.
Stelarc’s artwork is represented by Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne.
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