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This is my Body, This is my Software: between Western and |
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You are cordially invited to a public lecture by
ORLAN
"This is my Body, This is my Software: between Western and non-Western Cultures"
Thursday 24 July, 2007 at 6pm
Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA
"ORLAN is undoubtedly a mutant of the body-cult era"
Bernard Blistene, A conversation ...in ORLAN on Carnal Art, Flammarion, 2004
The internationally renown French artist ORLAN has been active in photography, video, sculpture, installations and performance since 1965. She wrote the Carnal Art manifesto, and from 1990 to 1993 she conducted her series of nine surgery-performances, which involved a series of plastic surgeries. These were filmed and broadcast in institutions throughout the world, among which the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. She lives and works between Los Angeles, New York and Paris and is Professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts Paris-Cergy. A retrospective was organised at the Modern Art Museum of Saint-Etienne, her native city in 2007, on the occasion of her 60th birthday.
ORLAN recently completed a one year position as a researcher at the Getty Institute and is currently an artist in residence at SymbioticA : the art and science collaborative research laboratory in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia. Her project at SymbioticA, "The Harlequin's Coat", will be created with skin cells cultivated in vitro, taken from ORLAN and from people with various skin colour and origin.
ORLAN is hosted by SymbioticA and supported by the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, the Faculty of Art, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Institute of Advanced Studies at The University of Western Australia. ORLAN's flight is sponsored by Alliance Francais de Perth and The French Embassy in Australia.
ORLAN will conduct further lectures in August for students and will exhibit at the Holmes a Court Gallery and in the SymbioticA exhibition "Still,Living" at The Bakery ARTRAGE complex during BEAP2007
www.orlan.net
www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
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