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Melentie Pandilovski has a Conversation with Stelarc
Stelarc is a Cyprus-born Australian Performance Artist, whose projects and performances explore alternative anatomical architectures. Centred on the concept that the body is obsolete, he interrogates issues of aliveness, embodiment and agency in hybrid human-machine systems. His earlier performances included 27 body suspensions, performing with a Third Hand, an Extended Arm and a six-legged walking robot. His split-body performances choreograph improvised, involuntary and programmed bodily and machine motions. He has increasingly incorporated remote interaction and actuation of his body online. He has inserted a sculpture inside his stomach and has had an ear surgically constructed on his arm.
His most recent interactive installation is an Anthropomorphic Machine for the SWARM exhibition at the new Science Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr Melentie Pandilovski is an Executive & Artistic Director who has curated over 200 projects. He is the Founder & Principal of Pandilovski Cultural Futures| Cultural Strategy, Contemporary Art & Art–Technology Advisory, based in Melbourne, Australia. His roles include: Creative Producer at JOLT Arts (Melbourne); Director of Riddoch Art Gallery (Mount Gambier, S.A.); Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre (Winnipeg, Canada); Director of the Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide, South Australia); Director of the Contemporary Art Center and Curator of SEAFair in Skopje, Macedonia. He was Editor of Art in the Biotech Era; Marshall McLuhan and Vilém Flusser’s Communication and Aesthetic Theories Revisited. He published Perspectives on Living and Thinking Vectors of the Anthropocene, Found Sci; Arts & Science – the Intersection (re)engineered in: Wiley Blackwell; The Phenomenology of (Non)Habitual Spaces for the Bioarts in Catalyst Book Series (2017).
