{"id":74,"date":"2004-11-11T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:43:28","slug":"the-blad-artist-interviews-no-1-stelarc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/11\/the-blad-artist-interviews-no-1-stelarc.html","title":{"rendered":"The BLAD artist interviews, no.1: Stelarc"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of my humble contributions to Australia’s cultural conversation, I am pleased to share with you some of my exclusive interviews with leading contemporary artists in Australia over the years. <\/div>\n
Stelarc<\/a> first came to public attention as a contestant on the TV talent quest Pot of Gold<\/em> in 1978, performing “Jake the Peg” with a crude home-made cybernetic leg. Since then he has become renowned around the world for his art practice exploring the obsolescence of the human body as a physical subject, largely by trying to kill himself<\/a> in various<\/a> innovative<\/a> ways. This interview was conducted at the University of Melbourne in 1997.<\/div>\n
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BLAD: Hello.<\/div>\n
STELARC: Hi. Nice architraves!<\/div>\n
BLAD: Huh?<\/div>\n
STELARC: The mouldings are really huge in this place.<\/div>\n
BLAD: Yeah. Check out the ceiling rose in this room.<\/div>\n
STELARC: Wow. Hate to have to dust those things.
(laughs)<\/div>\n
BLAD: OK bye.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
Stelarc’s latest project, <\/em>My Big Fat Greek Virtual Head<\/a>, is on display in the <\/em>Chadstone Shopping Centre<\/em><\/a> Galleria until 11 December.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of my humble contributions to Australia’s cultural conversation, I am pleased to share with you some of my exclusive interviews with leading contemporary artists in Australia over the years. Stelarc first came to public attention as a contestant on the TV talent quest Pot of Gold in 1978, performing “Jake the Peg” with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}