Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Body Artists and Cyborgs
2
Janine Antoni
b. 1964, Bahamas
ORLAN
Gnaw, 1992
b. 1947, France
Best known for
"The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan," a series of plastic surgery procedures designed to remake her body in the form of famous beautiful women in art.
A Cyborg Manifesto:
Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
"All her work questions body’s status concerning all the religious, political and cultural pressures which leave an imprint in fleshes, particularly the female ones. Her work uses all the scientific, technologic and medical discoveries by questioning them. She defends hybridization, tolerance and human rights through her nomad, mutant and shifting identities."
- from http://www.orlan.net
Vito Acconci
b 1940, USA
Performance works include "Seedbed" 1972 and "Following Piece" 1969
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190036953
goddess no want.
I can haz cyborg?
- Key Concepts:
- "No object is sacred..." pg 163
- Committed to Patriarchy, Irony, Intimacy, Perversity - 151
- Fractured Identities/Lost Identities
- A Matter of Fiction and Lived Experience
- Imagination and Material Reality -150
- Integrated Circuit
- Feminization of Labor
- Oppositional Consciousness/Women of Color
- Reproduction/Alienation
- Physical and non-Physical
- Feminist Science/Fiction
Gilbert and George
b. 1967 England
Chris Burden
Gilbert Proesch b. 1943 Italy
George Passmore b. 1942 England
b. 1946, USA
"We want Our Art to speak across the barriers of knowledge directly to People about their Life and not about their knowledge of art. The twentieth century has been cursed with an art that cannot be understood. The decadent artists stand for themselves and their chosen few, laughing at and dismissing the normal outsider. We say that puzzling, obscure and form-obsessed art is decadent and a cruel denial of the Life of People."
-From "What our Art Means" Gilbert and George 1986
From the cover of Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Harraway
Best known for "Transfixed" 1974 and "Shoot" 1971, both
involving extreme bodily feats.
Jackson Pollock
1912-1956, USA
Best known for highly physical painting style known
as "Action Painting"
"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well." - Jackson Pollock, My Painting 1956