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Most people believe their capacity to remember can be much better. So do I, in fact I want to take the idea a few steps further; I’m going to try and acquire a genius memory.

Remembrandt – The Memory Guy from John Doggett-Williams on Vimeo.

Confronting, fascinating, transcendent, profound, horrifying,  courageous, empathetic, which of the above accurately describes Stelarc’s 26th Suspension performance at the Scott Livesey Gallery in Melbourne? With 16 shark hooks piercing his back, elbows, and legs Stelarc was supported by wire cables and cranked high above an oversize marquette of his own arm (with embedded third ear). Is it body art/sculpture? Or something more or less? Any expression of the excessive physical pain he was experiencing may have unleashed the near palpable anxiety among the audience of 40 present.

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