Performance as Guerrilla Ontology
The Case of Stelarc
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5010932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Fleming (0000-0002-0178-1676, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 95-109 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x02008003005 |
| OpenAlex | W2028499165 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This article examines the work of the Australian performance artist, Stelarc, in terms of philosophies of mind and body. It argues that Stelarc's work can profitably be seen as a kind of performative `research' into the body; Stelarc's actions take the form of a hypothetical or speculative ontology which does not operate in order to represent possibility but to enact possibilities in real time and space. His work is compared with and shown to have some resonances with recent cybernetic and systems theories of cognition, in which cognition is figured as a form of `enaction'. This being so, Stelarc's performances suggest an exemplary mode in which `hypotheses' about alternative corporeal existences may be creatively entertained
Citizen journalism · Cognition · Cognitive science · Cybernetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human–computer interaction · Ontology · Performative utterance · Sociology · Computer Science · Design Education and Practice · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Engineering · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
Selected philosophical writings.
Cartesian Meditations
Existence
How We Became Posthuman
By Means of Performance
Descartes
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Autopoiesis and Cognition
Interviewed by Martin Thomas
Parasite Visions
Phenomenology of Perception
Mind and nature
The Embodied Mind
An Order of Pure Decision
Prosthetics, Robotics and Remote Existence
Introduction to Systems Philosophy
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
From Ritual to Theatre
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |