Obsolete Body Suspensions Stelarc 1st Edition Signed by Stelarc
Stelarc; Paffrath, James D (ed)
$950.00
Edition: Signed 1st Edition
Date Published: 1984
Illustrator: profusely illustrated
Size: 4to
Scarce Stelarc publication; images in colour and b&w of various Stelarc performance art pieces, all involving the suspension of the naked body in space held by hooks attached to cord and hooked into the artist’s skin; Event for Clone Suspension Maki Gallery Tokyo 1982, Moving/Modifying Suspension for Obsolete Body Espace DBD Los Angeles 1982, Trajectory Ibaraki Kenmin Bunka Centre 1983, Tilted/Twisting Event for Cone Configuration Tamura Gallery 1980, Event for Obsolete Body La Mama Melbourne 1980, and many more; various authors, including extracts from Japanese art journals; compiled and edited by James D Paffrath (with the artist); Signed in black texta by Stelarc to translucent prelims page; Very Good and clean throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, with minor loss to head of spine.



