Stelarc talk at Scott Livesey Gallery this afternoon

Stelarc gave an informal talk this afternoon about his recent work. I was impressed by the exquisite nine casts of his arm with Extra Ear (3 glass/3 silver/3 copper), but I was particularly taken with the large scale digital image of his stretched facial 'skin' that was positioned almost flat on the gallery floor. I felt that I could almost step into this strange, almost bizzare landscape, which was simultaneously human and yet not human, familiar and uncanny. Stelarc used a similar image which was reproduced in Meanjin: Portrait of the Artists, however this one was immense & almost cinematic. His ears, which can be seen front on could not be captured in this photograph, but you get the general idea!