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• 1 Derrick de Kerckhove // Dec 15, 2006 at 10:16 am

  In your performances, the use of the body in an expanded and hybrid fashion allows you to subvert social and cultural codes. What does the hacking of a body signify to you?

• 2 Marcel Antunez // Jan 11, 2007 at 9:15 am

  Body and mind are one. Culture is a consequence of biological
  evolution. One could say that culture is a biological process. Our
  biological reality expands thanks to an exclusive facility of our species,
  abstract intelligence, which gives way to language. The use of computers is language. The expanded and hybrid body is an amplified body because of language. Language is a transcription of reality and in a certain way is also its prosthesis. The biological body expands through cultural prosthesis, in my case mechanical exoskeletons, dress-skeletons, system-turgies, etc. The hacking of a body could happen in its cultural prosthetic environment. Despite this, there’s something more than prosthesis, genetics, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, which for example affect our interior being, and in the case of genetics, affect our future formation. I tend to think that these technologies were formulated when the respect and improvement of the body began. Not so much over the capricious or accidental creation of monsters, which has an ephemeral duration and has no secondary consequences. Today I’m a mermaid, tomorrow
  I’m a centaur, for example. I suppose that Hacking (which for me is a
  synonym of creating) new bodies, if done in such a way that permits
  reversibility and with no side effects, would be very welcome!