Stelarc - Reclining Stickman

Art Gallery of South Australia | 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art | Monster Theatres

My third collaboration with Stelarc as technical director on a nine-metre exoskeleton robot, actuated by controls over the internet, culminating with a performance where the artist was attached to the Robot in the gallery for five hours. As always, an honour to work with Stelarc and help realise his vision.

Exhibited as part of the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Monster Theatres.

ROBOT ACCESS at https://recliningstickman.stelarc.org

STELARC performed five-hours continuously on
Saturday 29 Feb 2020, 11.30am - 4.30pm

Performance Documentation

STELARC: Reclining Stickman
https://recliningstickman.stelarc.org/

Reclining Stickman is an Online Interactive exhibit from 29 Feb - 8 Jun 2020.

Debut performance of Reclining Stickman by Stelarc at the 2020 Adelaide Biennial Of Australian Art: Monster Theatres @ AGSA Art Gallery of South Australia filmed on Saturday February 29th, 2020

STELARC performed for five-hours continuously on
Saturday 29 Feb 2020, 11.30am - 4.30pm

Reclining StickMan is a 9m long robot, actuated by pneumatic rubber muscles. Visitors at the AGSA can intuitively animate the robot from a control panel. At indicated periods, people online elsewhere can choreograph its movements and sounds. A background algorithm animates the robot intermittently if no-one intervenes, locally or remotely.

ROBOT ACCESS at https://recliningstickman.stelarc.org

Reclining Stickman will be streaming and in Exhibition from 29 Feb - 8 Jun 2020.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Wayne Michell, Ternay - Design Engineering
Mark Harrison, Festo - Pneumatic muscles and technology
AITI, Flinders University - Robot fabrication
Steve Berrick - Interactive software and electronics
Steven Alyian - Technical Coordination, Audio and Video Streaming
Video edit by Steven Alyian

Special thanks to Leigh Robb, Curator 2020 Biennial of Australian Art

Presented as part of the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres
https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/e...

Presented in association with the Adelaide Festival, and with generous support received from the Art Gallery of South Australia Biennial Ambassadors Program and Principal Donor The Balnaves Foundation.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

http://stelarc.org/
https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/