Orlan has become a media sensation in Europe. I like her work and understand her thoughts behind her actions. She has no shame, and she is honest from the beginning. Although her shows are in your face, they are thought provoking. Using her body as the main text/subject/vehicle in her work, has made it more interesting to me. He hybridization of sculpture and body via digital format is something I might look into for my project in class.
Some thoughts that came to mind while researching this topic were of self image and identity. People always make a decision about how they look or like to present themselves to other people. Taking into consideration that inaction is an action itself. Everyone has their own way of portraying themselves on a regular basis. It seems that these people/artists all want to transcend their original body blueprint to be different then the rest for social awareness, whether it be political or psychosocial. Stelarc with his suspensions, implants and Virtual Reality processes has lent him to learn more about his personal relationship to the physical world.
•interesting conversation I had with a classmate was how someone that has a specific hairstyle, gets caste to a specific group sometimes. Stereotyped if you may, and inadvertently thought of as a certain kind of person. A person fights stigma both negative and positive traits that really have nothing to do with the person sometimes based on just a hairstyle. A person maybe once thought the hair would make them different, but in doing so, made them part of another group. Or at least a part of a group, of people trying to be different, which logically just makes them part of another group.
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