Back CoverBody Probe, the follow-up to the now acclaimed, club-based book: Torture Garden, presents an eclectic mix of interviews (including a fascinating interview with Nick Knight discussing his collaborations with Alexander McQueen), features and striking images. Exploring how technology and the human body are becoming increasingly entwined as we enter the 21st century, Body Probe provides a graphic, penetrative and confrontational insight into the work of these leading international artists.
Nick Knight, the Chapman Brothers, E.Garbs, David Cronenberg, Hermann Nitsch, Orlan, Stelarc, Ron Athey, Franko B, Della Grace and Alex Binnie. Individually and collectively their work represents the cutting edge of art, design, performance, photography and film, as they push the boundaries of the human body to the extremes of mutation, self-mutilation and body customizing.
Features include: Fashion mutation; Alien abduction; the Cybernetic Body; Robot Art; Sex in Space; Medical Fetishism; Sadomasochism in Art; Body Customizing Extremes; Virtual Bodies, and Post-Fetish Fashion.
Body Probe now reconfirms the Torture Garden's position at the cutting edge of the fetish, body art, and cyber technology scene. It contains over 100 black and white photographs, and over 50 full-colour plates.
Author
David Wood formed Torture Garden as a Fetish Club in October 1990, together with Alan Pelling. Prior to starting Torture Garden he specialised in conceptual art & film.
Contents
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| 1. The New Flash (Mark Bennet) |
| 2. Robot Artists (Dr. Rachel Armstrong) |
| 3. Towards the Medical (Jack Sargeant) |
| 4. Nick Knight Interview (David Wood) |
| 5. Stelarc Interview (Mark Bennet) |
| 6. Sex in Space (Dr. Rachel Armstrong) |
| 7. Breaking Out of the Reality Asylum (Paul Sakoilsky) |
| 8. Franko B. Interview: Blood, Bravery & Beauty (Robert Ayers) |
| 9. Mark E. Garbs & Frank Van Saper Interview (Mark Bennet) |
| 10. SM Art - More Than a Matter of Taste (Gray Watson) |
| 11. The Self Made Freak - Hybridizations and Bodies in Transition (Betti Marenko) |
| 12. Alex Binnie Interview (Betti Marenko) |
| 13. Ron Athey Interview (David Wood) |
| 14. David Cronenberg - Even Dying Is an Act of Eroticism (David Flint) |
| 15. Alien Abduction and Fetishism (Dr. Rachel Armstrong) |
| 16. Fashion and Body Mutation (David Wood) |
| 17. Cyborg Sex (Dr. Rachel Armstrong) |
| 18. Jake and Dinos Make Monsters/Fuckface (Dr. Rachel Armstrong, Jake Chapman) |
| 19. Orlan Interview - Courage, Complexity & Conviction (Robert Ayers) |
| 20. Gender Chameleon/Del LaGrace Volcano (Julie Weir) |
| 21. Virtual Mentalities, Virtual Physicalities (Trudy Barber) |
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Reviews at Amazon (4.5 stars, 4 reviews)
Yes “… an amazing collection of interviews and essays of radical performance art, s & m culture, cyborgs, and the films of David Cronenberg, among many other interesting things…” … more
Yes “… contains interviews, essays, and art from some of the most cutting edge body artists, authors, and fringe culture critics… a book for those who think without boundaries…” … more
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Other Reviews
From the publisher:
“This fascinating volume of essays and images offers a real primer of cutting-edge information about today's cyber-fetish scene... Body Probe is exciting, lively and extremely well-designed…” - Headpress
“Wierd, wonderful and grotesque...(Body Probe) is a glimpse into the fetish psyche… a fitting opening tome for the new Millennium.” - Skin Two