{"id":116,"date":"2009-07-17T07:53:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/epizoo\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T10:04:06","slug":"epizoo-3","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/epizoo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Epizoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marcel.li%20Antunez%20Roca.Epizoo.1994_B\"In Epizoo<\/em> (1995), Catalonian artist Marcel.L\u00ed Ant\u00fanez Roca explores the complex layers of control and authority with respect to the cyborgian body and electronic systems. By activating motorized devices, viewers manipulated Roca\u2019s nose, mouth, ears, glutea and pectoral muscles, causing bizarre contortions.\u00a0 Like the unwitting subjects in psychologist Stanley Milgram\u2019s 1974 study Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (sixty-five percent of those tested agreed to mete out the maximum punishment of 450 volts, several ticks beyond the indication, \u2018DANGER: SEVERE SHOCK\u2019), so the audience of Epizoo<\/em> was confronted with taking responsibility for its actions and the effects they caused on the performer, who was at their mercy.<\/p>\n

\"Yoko%20Ono%20Cut%20Piece%20Performance%2\"\"Abramovic%20Rhythm%200%2C%201974%20.jpg\"In the tradition of Yoko Ono\u2019s Cut Piece<\/em> (1966, far left) and Marina Abramovic\u2019s Rhythm 0<\/em> (1974, left), the artist submitted his body to the whims of the audience.<\/p>\n

The videos of Epizoo <\/em>below shows how the work explores the relationship between human body and technology, where the audience can interact with human body by punishing or pleasuring it. There are many external devices attached to the artist\u00b4s body so that the user can control them. The individual part of the body will react according to the user’s input.<\/p>\n

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