I saw the man with 3 ears (Stelios Arcadiou) when I was watching this morning to start with i thought he must be growing it for a friend that was missing an ear but then he said it was performance art. The hosts asked him how it was art how is it asthetically pleasing or meaningfull in anyway. He said that Art was an escape from the mundane which I thought was an interesting quote. It is like the opposite of the artistic stereotype of cutting off your own ear because he is growing a new one it has the same element of attention seeking though, look at me i'm growing a new ear! He said it took him 10 years to pursuade a surgeon to actually put it in his arm. He said he is planning to install transmitters in his new ear , so people listen to what he's hearing online. This is very wierd its like the whole world is listening through his arm he says his work is about virtual reality.
Thursday, 7 May 2009
I saw the man with 3 ears (Stelios Arcadiou) when I was watching this morning to start with i thought he must be growing it for a friend that was missing an ear but then he said it was performance art. The hosts asked him how it was art how is it asthetically pleasing or meaningfull in anyway. He said that Art was an escape from the mundane which I thought was an interesting quote. It is like the opposite of the artistic stereotype of cutting off your own ear because he is growing a new one it has the same element of attention seeking though, look at me i'm growing a new ear! He said it took him 10 years to pursuade a surgeon to actually put it in his arm. He said he is planning to install transmitters in his new ear , so people listen to what he's hearing online. This is very wierd its like the whole world is listening through his arm he says his work is about virtual reality.
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His work also relates back in time to an earlier role that artist type figures played in society. The shaman figure as cited by Jung was sometimes the centre of painful transformation rituals, Beuys used the shaman as a model for how the artist could operate within contemporary society. Perhaps Stelarc is simply returning to a historic role which is designed to prepare the ground for change which we will all have to face at some time.
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