Surgery
is used to repair or embellish the human body without anybody becoming
indignant about it. Far from it - it is seen as a sign that it is
now part of the free market economy which defines the standards
of beauty.
Orlan decided to use surgery in a very different way. For the sake
of Art. With her eyes wide open, her voice resolute, and her mind
fully conscious, during the operation, her body is connected to
a variety of interactive transmission networks - a combination of
cybernetics and biology.
This extremely risky stylistic exercise is a grandiose program of
mutation that the artist carries out on her own body in the operating
theater which is turned into an artist's workshop for the occasion.
This film is based on the evolution, the revolution of her morphology,
over the course of her performances. It reveals the original sensations
behind the artist's thoughts.
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