Artist Implants Ear on Arm

Posted by Alex in Tattoo, Etc. on September 5, 2007 at 11:39 pm


A major theme of Australian performance artist Stelarc is the concept that the human body is obsolete. As such, his past artwork included hanging himself on a flesh hook suspension, attaching electrodes that control his body and then connecting the control to the Internet so those who logged on can move his muscles at will, and saving his liposuctioned fat for an exhibition.

Now, he’s on to modifying the human body, starting with getting a lab-grown ear implanted on his forearm!

Link : Gallery Non-Linkjacked Flickr Photoset | Stelarc’s website [may have NSFW images] | Wikipedia Entry - Thanks Nikola!



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11 comments to "Artist Implants Ear on Arm"

  1. L
    September 5th, 2007 at 11:47 pm

    What a waste. Never mind accident victims who’ve been disfigured. Let’s put a perfectly good ear on some pretentious artist’s arm!

  2. johnald
    September 6th, 2007 at 12:26 am

    it’s not a real ear
    http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=stelarc+ear&m=text

  3. Britt
    September 6th, 2007 at 1:03 am

    That’s useful.

  4. fluff
    September 6th, 2007 at 1:34 am

    What a waste of perfectly good media space.

  5. ted
    September 6th, 2007 at 7:14 am

    I’d say not a real picture either.

  6. Mark
    September 6th, 2007 at 8:16 am

    Kind of the anti-Van Gogh.

  7. chrissy
    September 6th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    omg his website sucks! I feel like Im trying to navigate a geocities page in 1998.

  8. Gellner
    September 6th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    lol the flintstones had better webpages than this guy

  9. Chris
    September 6th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    WHAT? WHAT? WHAT DO YOU SAY?
    Oh, sorry I put long sleeves today…

  10. ben
    September 6th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    This guy was my art teacher at Yokohama International School when I was living in Japan as a kid. He’s a great guy (and really good at squash [racket game]).

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