Pierre-RE-ponce

Art<-> Masochisme quel est la différence?

Réponse d'un commnentaire sur facebook.

http://panbrainpan.braindead.ca/2010/10/marauding-comment-re-artist-presents.html

Tu connais bien les exploits de Picasso, et Duchamp et « Van Gogh », pour ne pas dire Michelangelo.Comme eux Stelarc fait un choix personnel ! ? ;)

Mais, sérieusement, il est certain que Selarc recherche à choqué sont auditoire. Je dirais même que je suis d'accord avec toi. C'est une expression, mais est-ce une expression « Artistique? » ou est-ce un rapprochement... que j’ai toujours cru être un peut… si je peux me permettre « étiré »?.>

Or il y a une certaine esthétique dans ces tableaux, comme et autres voir le Site de l'artiste Stelarc.

Il faut ce questionné "et si cette œuvre avait été une toile, n’aurions-nous pas trouvé des parallèles avec Dali ou Magritte?"


Mais je crois que c’est important de noter que Stelarc (masochiste comme il est) n’est pas le premier a s’hameçonné pour une expression (artistique),
voir le festival Thaipusham :
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/travel/thaipusam-festival-in-malaysia/20090505-asyp.html?selectedImage=14 

or s’en est un qui a été reconnu par MIT.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10458&ttype=2

Alors le constat me dit seulement que ces ouvres sont plutôt une expression technologique ce qui est de plus en plus courant de nos jour. Qu’il a débuté sa carrière durant les années 60 est encore plus importante car ceci fait de lui un avanguardiste de l'art et la techologie.

D’ailleurs c’est pourquoi j’ai élargi ma thèse sur mon Blogue.

http://panbrainpan.braindead.ca/2010/10/marauding-comment-re-artist-presents.html

Pour l’instant je te laisse avec une nouvelle pensée.

Marauding comment - Re: Artist presents third ear... Concordia University

“Resulting” interconnectivity.

A funny thing happened to me on my way to ordering books on-line for one of my daughter's. As I searched for her books on Vox Voice and Acting Methods on Concordia’s Website,

Stelac

I stumbled onto this blurb about a visiting artist named Stelarc. My first impression was “holy shit is that an ear on his arm!” and after further Googlerches and youerches and otherches, it quickly occurred to me that he was (is) in some way acting “McLuhan” – or in part enacting the philosophers’ theories on medium,
expression and extension.

Neet, I thought.  Now that is dedicated philosophic actualization. That is Art_ifice. The clip below is one of his more poignant actions (keeping in mind that mortification using hooks is a traditional expression of devotion in some cultural settings such as in the some Hindu religious festivals) however the "Ear Arm" and projected voice project, is for a lack of a better term freak-E=MC² Artistry.

This is humanity at its dissociative best. That is, its "gift" to remove itself from nature and create aspects of its existence as an exegesis about itself, its temple, its nature – if not a criticism of nature as a whole considering our navel gazing tendencies.

^{© T}omas Benedikovic/Getty

This and other performances and manifestations of Stelarc’s body of work (if you will pardon the blatantly unfortunate pun*) is a more benign expression of our tendency to expand ourselves into the universe.

More malevolent expressions could simply be our knack to “create” destruction without even a thought. For instance the recent toxic spill in Hungary was as esthetically striking as it was morose and deadly, or even to make a nastier yet important aside, our emminently dangerous Canadian© "slick black and visible from the sky tar-sands open reservoirs" version. The later being a direct consequence of our need to express ourselves further and outwardly, mechanically.

Please de not interpret by my meandering thoughts that I draw a parallel between Stelarc’s work and environmental degradation.  In fact it is more matter of comparing and contrasting positive expressions of human expression through its exegesis vs. the total and utter lack of critical reflection. Stelarc’s expresses and questions through his work. It makes you ponder creation and destruction and while it affecting only the person expressing the through.  You empathize the thought and the philosophy
that is expressed.

* Please note that I make no excuses for my puns are for fun.










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