2020 Online Art Exhibitions

I'm still struggling to get my head around this.


...went to all that trouble and it's alive but deaf.

wanderlust wrote:I'm still struggling to get my head around this.


...went to all that trouble and it's alive but deaf.

This is Butlers father in-law, from On the Buses? Olives Dad.

wanderlust wrote:I'm still struggling to get my head around this.


...went to all that trouble and it's alive but deaf.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/stelarc-ear-arm-art/index.html

It's gruesomely fascinating and strangely beautiful, but is an ear on an arm art?
Stelarc, the award-winning Australian performance artist who has grown a third ear on his arm for art's sake, believes it is. And as he pursues further surgeries to install a Wi-Fi connected microphone that will allow people anywhere in the world to listen to what he hears, he hopes he can convince others of his vision.
"It's when art is surprising that it becomes interesting," Stelarc, told CNN. "Because it's generating that anxiety, that uncertainty and that ambivalence and reaction that makes the body re-examine the world."
Part surgical, part human, Stelarc's ear was first constructed using a frame made out of biocompatible material that's commonly used in plastic surgery. Once securely transplanted into his arm, the artist's own tissue and blood vessels morphed with the material and the ear is now a living, feeling, functioning part of his body.

Although it can't yet hear, Stelarc now plans to use his own stem cells to develop a proper external ear lobe before implanting a Wi-Fi enabled microphone. Once connected, this microphone will be permanently activated so people across the globe will be able to 'tune in' to him 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

What a tit.

gloswhite wrote:What a tit.

Compared to some of the others in post 20, he's relatively sane.

sunlight wrote:

A hell of a drop there Sunlight.

I could think of a few people I could push off the edge.

It is a peaceful scene. I can hear it roaring.

sunlight wrote:It is a peaceful scene. I can hear it roaring.

To be fair there is nothing better than the sound of water for relaxing.

I have been tempted to buy one of those indoor mini waterfalls for the peace and tranquility they bring.

I agree. The sound of water is bliss. I often play recordings of streams, in my house, and it brings peace and quiet, and a sense of well being. Living in the present moment, and forgetting about the past, and the future.

karlypants wrote:

To be fair there is nothing better than the sound of water for relaxing.

I have been tempted to buy one of those indoor mini waterfalls for the peace and tranquility they bring.

Just turn a tap on.

Cajunboy wrote:
Just turn a tap on.

I just play this. Great for reading.

Cajunboy wrote:

karlypants wrote:

To be fair there is nothing better than the sound of water for relaxing.

I have been tempted to buy one of those indoor mini waterfalls for the peace and tranquility they bring.

Just turn a tap on.

Far too costly that!

Bankers in Action, 1962, by Remedios Varo, para-surrealist painter and anarchist.

Four minutes video - but well worth watching.

Yes, I enjoyed watching that. He was correct when he says you have to witness it all on your own. We get so bogged down in the mundane world of wage slavery that we drift right off the path and forget about the infininately beautiful world out there.
Some great scenery there. Well done to him.
Tell the middle class that us working class are not all chips and curry eating plebeians whom hit the booze the moment we finish work.

This painting is called " Truth coming out of her Well to shame mankind " by Jean-Leon Gérome.