{"id":2606,"date":"2009-08-31T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/document\/stelarc-the-body-is-obsolete\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:42:41","slug":"stelarc-the-body-is-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/document\/stelarc-the-body-is-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"Stelarc &#8211; The Body is Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2606-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OKEfJRe4uys&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OKEfJRe4uys\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OKEfJRe4uys<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Stelarc has challenged the physical limits of the<br \/>human body with respect to technology. Perhaps best-known<br \/>for his controversial suspension performances, begun in 1976,<br \/>in which he suspends his body (which he invariably refers to as<br \/>\u2018the body\u2019) by cables attached to meat-hooks inserted in his<br \/>flesh, Stelarc has used electronic media in his artwork since the<br \/>mid-1970s. Indeed, these two aspects of his practice are<br \/>integrally related to his theories on the body\u2019s obsolescence.&#8221; book, page.39<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","artist":[104],"streams":[14],"keywords":[2268],"decade":[5543],"media":[5546],"class_list":["post-2606","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","artist-stelarc","streams-bodies-surrogates-emergent-systems","keywords-body","decade-1990s","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}