Ken Blackburn

Artist

A 2 hour multi-media performance held in Ottawa, Canada, in 1994 as part of the Body Obsolete exhibition (SAW). No visual documentation exists, except for a few rehearsal photos (of body projections) such as those shown above. In opposition to the stance that technology is rendering the body 'obsolete', this performance states the opposite - that in fact, technology slowly exposes the body for the perfection it is, as we come to acknowledge the limitations, frustrations, pains, joys, emotions... that linger as ghosts in the machine... the body ever-present (and perfect in its failure) behind the scenes of technological experience.

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