In my work "Conduit" I presented a basic fantasy of everyone's, to pee off a skyscraper. While this is a crazy and often considered offensive idea, sometimes it is those notions that free the mind in a new way.
Stelarc: I hope that people are offended by my art. I hope that in a way people are offended at the way that science has made the human body obsolete. I want viewers to feel and think when they see me hanging from flesh hooks or be enraged when they see my "Third Ear" for perhapes it will reawaken and reanimate what seems to be a dead society.
Question 3: Where do you see art and society moving in the future?
Stelarc: While I can't really speak for art in general, I fear that society is moving further and further...
It seems to me that more and more emphasis is placed on how mechanical everything is and less emphasis on its actual form and beauty.
Janine Antoni: I would have to agree. That is why I try to incorporate some of the most basic human practices into my work, to remind others that there is still form and beauty in this world regardless of knowledge. That people can still dream and fantasize and live outside of science and reality. In my work "Moor" I try to help the viewers understand that we all have fragments of objects in our life that hold importance and value and that those pieces form a sort of umbilical cord to our lives. If this cord is cut or the value forgotten, then there is no stability remaining.
