JOLT Arts: Stelarc – Antipodean Apparatus
9 July @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm AEST

You were thinking about how you never see robots in Australia, even though China has so many. JOLT has heard your prayers. Having put away the meat hooks and body suspensions, Stelarc now encases himself in machinery and becomes symbiotic with the next stage of human evolution: Cyborg. This is how Stelarc traverses the world and makes history: Australia’s leading performance artist. The body as mechanised apparatus.
Hullick has built robotic sound machines that represent some other futurist pathway born from the industrial revolution: violins have never been so redivined. As separate acts, Hullick, and neurodiverse ensemble The Amplified Elephants, build anciently modern sound worlds from these creation-augmenting machines. There is beauty, wonder and brilliance, waiting for you to reach out.
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