[NetBehaviour] Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves

[Alan Sondheim]

For a second forgetting D/G, it seems to me that if it were shamanic, it 
would in fact be a form of becoming-animal; I've read a fair amount into 
Inuit and Native American shamanism at times, and this is paramount. But 
the artist is working within the art-world, and the real content of the 
piece it seems to me is one of risk - a foreign blood presenced within 
what we assume is a natural order of fluidity. What I miss btw in Stelarc 
is precisely the shamanic, the becoming - it's attachments, no matter how 
organic, and while he puts his body at risk (as does the artist here), the 
mind is busy with the theorization of prosthesis. In this way, it's kind 
of a 19th-century approach: to become-X means to combine (human, X) in a 
formal manner...

Anyway, when one speaks of 'rigor,' I do think of the long and endless 
philosophical discourse on scientific experimentation; I tend not to think 
of exempla. But that's probably just me.

- was going to make a pun about hoarse blood, too much speaking and 
theorizing... but thought better of it .. but then . -

- alan

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