August 20th, 2009
Melbourne’s Stelarc
Australia is a perfect vacation spot with the perfect boutique hotel. Melbourne is one of Australia’s most fascinating cities, as the cultural hub of the continent, offering an endless array of daytime diversions and nighttime entertainments. A stay in our boutique hotels here will be endlessly decadent and refreshing, offering amenities that no other hotel could possibly offer. Boutique hotels here will have the same hospitality and convenience as other hotels, but also offer a remarkably distinctive sense of style and design, and also very unique extras. Dining with cuisine offered by world-class chefs, excellent exercise facilities, and technological connectivity are all here. But there is much, much more, and it really has to be experienced to be believed. Guests will find themselves relaxed and refreshed, and ready to enjoy the great city here.
Melbourne has plenty to offer for every member of the family. Museums and galleries, attractions and exhibits, and sight seeing tours are just part of what’s in store. There is also excellent shopping, fantastic restaurants, and a superb nightlife that will make Melbourne shine in your memory for years to come. There are also a number of local celebrities, whose legacies are found in the local art scene, and one celebrity is the cyber-genius Stelarc. A performance artist whose work is unparalleled, Stelarc has achieved international fame in digital, academic, and artistic circles, based on his innovation and also his eccentricities. Stelarc’s work revolves around the idea of a post-biological post-human, posing that we are living in a hyper-technological age.
Some of his early experiments were based on pushing physical limits to the extreme, suspending himself from hooks for over 25 different performances, and testing himself in other endurance actions. He is more famous, however, for different experiments in body modification. Most recently, Stelarc has had an ear implanted in his forearm, with a bluetooth microphone insterted. These kinds of alterations are certainly interesting news, but his more revolutionary work comes from pressing the limits of the distance between viewer and performer. In one action, he had himself connected to a machine that could control his movements, and allowed his online audience to connect virtually and operate the machine. This meant that audiences could conceivably control his body at distances, blurring the line between art and life.
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