performance art as posthumanist means of expression - performing the liminal stages of self
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POSTHUMAN TENDENCIES IN PERFORMANCE ART
PERFORMANCE ART AS
TECHNO-CULTURAL AVANT-GARDE
POSTHUMANISM IS A MOVEMENT ON THE BORDER BETWEEN SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE AND FICTION: BASED ON THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION, AS WELL AS THE LEGACY OF CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA, IT OFFERS A VISION OF A TRANSITION FROM HUMAN TO THE SO CALLED POSTHUMAN. THE POSTHUMAN IS SEEN AS AN OFFSPRING OF TECHNOCULTURE, THE SYNTHESIS OF LIVING AND ARTIFICIAL, A LOOSELY EVOLVING ENTITY WITHOUT FIXED ONTOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES. THE EXISTENCE OF THE POSTHUMAN LIES BEYOND DUALISTIC CATEGORIZATION, HAS A PROCESSUAL CHARACTER AND REFUSES ANY ESSENTIALIST APPROACH.
CORPOREALITY – IDENTITY – TECHNOLOGY - INFORMATION
IT IS AN ATTRACTIVE SUBJECT OF SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES AND A SEXY POSTMODERN SLOGAN, BUT ALSO A SYMBOL OF A TRANSGRESSION OF ACTUAL
PREDESTINATING CATEGORIES SUCH AS RACE, GENDER OR SOCIAL STATUS. MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, POSTHUMAN IS PRIMARILY A METAPHOR, ADOPTED BY A
VARIETY OF NARRATIVES FOCUSED ON THE POTENTIAL ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGICALLY EXTENDED LIFE: FROM SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS, THROUGH
SCIENCE-FICTION, UP TO ITS NUMEROUS APPROPRIATIONS BY THE ART WORLD. FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE, POSTHUMANISM CAN BE APPROACHED AS A LIMINAL
TRANSDISCIPLINARY FIELD, LOCATED ON THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART.
BODY
CODE
MIND
HUMACHINE AN INTIMATE MIXING OF HUMAN AND
MACHINE…OUTSIDE THE SUBJECT/OBJECT BINARY
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
SHANNONS DISEMBODIED INFORMATION
BODY AS INFORMATION CIRQUIT
CYBERNETICS
INFORMATION SCIENCE MACY CONFERENCIES
TURING TEST
INFORMATION REVOLUTION
AI
CELLULAR AUTOMATON
CYBORG
HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
BIOPUNK BIOTECH REVOLUTION
DIGITAL REVOLUTION
CYBERPUNK
BIOHACKING
HACKERPSPACES
HACKERS
SCI-FI
TRANSGENICS
DTC GENOMICS QUANTIFIED SELF
SYSTEM THEORY
VR
PC COMPUTER - MAN OF THE YEAR 1982
NBIC
INFORMATION SOCIETY
SMARTPHONES
WWW
CYBERCULTURE
SOCIAL NETWORKING
NANOTECHNOLOGY
DNA COMPUTING
DIGITAL SUPERHIGHWAY
WEB 2.0
DIYBIO
WEARABLES
GENE THERAPY
IN VITRO FERTILIZATION ADVANCED PROSTHETICS
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
ARDUINO
OPEN SOURCE
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POSTMODERNISM
SECOND WAVE FEMINISM
LGBTI
PEACE MOVEMENT
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
CYBERFEMINISM
HIPPIES
ANIMAL STUDIES
GREEN MOVEMENT
CYBORG MANIFESTO
RHIZOMATIC PHILOSPHY ANT
DECONSTRUCTION
CRITICAL THEORY
ENDANGERED EARTH – PLANET OF THE YEAR 1988
POST-STRUCTURALISM
ANTI-RACISM
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SEXUAL REVOLUTION POST-INDUSTRIALISM
QUEER THEORY
LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
TECHNOBIOPOWER
PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEMS
CITIZEN SCIENCE
TRANSHUMANISM
MASS COLABORATION
SHARING OPENESS
PEER PRODUCTION
PROSUMER DELEUZIAN BECOMING
DIWO
POSTHUMAN IS AN ATTRACTIVE SUBJECT OF SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES AND A SEXY POSTMODERN SLOGAN, BUT ALSO A SYMBOL OF A TRANSGRESSION OF ACTUAL PREDESTINATING CATEGORIES SUCH AS RACE, GENDER OR SOCIAL STATUS...
PERFORMATIVE SELF-CREATION, OPENESS,
FLUID IDENTITIES, PLURALITY, UNCERTAINTY, VAGUENESS, HYBRIDITY, MONSTROZITY
…HOWEVER, POSTHUMAN IS PRIMARILY A CRITICAL METAPHOR ADOPTED BY A VARIETY OF NARRATIVES FOCUSED ON THE POTENTIAL ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGICALLY EXTENDED LIFE…
…POSTHUMANISM CAN BE APPROACHED AS A LIMINAL TRANSDISCIPLINARY FIELD, LOCATED ON THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART…
…POSTHUMANISM DEALS WITH TOPICS OF IDENTITY, TECHNOLOGY, POWER & CONTROL..
ENVIRONMENTALISM
PERFORMANCE ART AS TECHNO-CULTURAL AVANT-GARDE
ENVIRONMENTALISM
POSTHUMANISM & PERFORMANCE ART
CORPOREALITY
SOCIAL CONTEXT
BODY AS A CENTRAL TOOL
LOOSE BOUNDARIES
HERE & NOW
INTERACTIVITY
VAGUENESS
TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
TECHNOLOGY AND PERFORMATIVE ASPECTS OF FEMALE BODY
PERFORMING A FEMINIST PRAXIS
Orlan, La réincarnation de Sainte-Orlan (1990–1993)
VNS Matrix, All New Gen (1994)
Avatar Body Collision, Screen Save Her (2002)
Anita Ponton, Unspool (2003)
SubRosa, SmartMom (1997) U-Gen-A-Chix: Why are Women like Chicken? (2008)
QUEER-TECH PERFORMANCE
GENDERFUCKING IN (CYBER)SPACE
Micha Cárdenas, Becoming Dragon (2008)
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Breaking Sex (1999–2007)
Suka Off, tranSfera 1.2 (2011)
Darina Alster, Bianca Braselli (2009)
ETHNO-TECHNO PERFORMANCE
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Mexterminator (1997-1999)
ETHNOCYBORGS
La Pocha Nostra, Corpo/Ilicito the posthuman society 6.9 (2009)
PERFORMANCE OF COMPANION SPECIES
NATURE-CULTURE INTERFACE
Art Orienté Objet, May the horse live in me (2011)
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Interactive Plant Growing (1992–97)
Eduardo Kac, Genesis (1999)
Critical Art Ensemble, Cult of the New Eve (2000)
MANIPULATED BODIES
PERFORMING THE TECHNO(BIO)POWER
Institute of Artificial Art, Arthur and the Solenoids (1997)
The Centre for Metahuman Exploration (CME), Absentee Ballot (1996).
CME, Project Paradise (1998)
Stelarc, Ping Body (1996)
Marcel-lí Antúnez Roca, Epizoo (1994)
Wafaa Bilal, Domestic Tension (2007)
Wafaa Bilal, 3rdi(2010–2011)
BODIES UNDER SURVEILLANCE
Stelarc Stomach Sculpture (1993)
Paul Vanouse, Items 1-2,000: A Corpus of Knowledge on the Rationalized Subject (1996)
Máša Dudziaková, QRbodies (2012)
Paul Vanouse & Kerry Sheehan, Suspect Inversion Center (2011)
SUPERBODIES?
Neil Harbisson, Eyeborg (2004)
Stelarc, Ear on Arm (1996 - 2012)
Stahl Stenslie Sensless (1996)
SNEAKY ®EVOLUTION..?