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extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the
body to its physical limits. For example, one of Marina Abramovic’s works involved dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, while one of Dennis Oppenheim’s better-known works saw him lying in the sunlight with a book on his chest, until his skin, excluding that covered by the book, was badly sunburned. It can even consist of the arrangement and dissection of preserved bodies in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the plastinated bodies used in the travelling
Body Worlds exhibit.
Body art is also a sub-category of performance
art, in which
artists use or abuse their own
body to make their particular statements.
In more recent times,
body became a subject of much broader discussions and treatments that cannot be reduced to the
body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual
body etc. Scientific research in this area, for example that by Kevin Warwick, can be considered in this artistic vein.
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