Orlan
Birthday: 1947-05-30
Place of Birth: Saint-Étienne, Loire, France
Biography: ORLAN is a French contemporary artist best known for her work with plastic surgery in the early to mid-1990s. ORLAN is known as a pioneer of carnal art, a form of self-portraiture that utilizes body modification to distort one's appearance.
Movies
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
Inverting the form, style and time frame of commercial television advertising, Logue has produced a ...
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Mise en scène pour un grand fiat
Post modern and baroque as hell... good and bad taste without synthesis... semblance and false prete...
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Orlan, carnal art
A documentary covering the rebirth of St.Orlan from 1991 through most of the decade....
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Successful Operation
Performance artist ORLAN undergoes one in a series of surgeries that would give her “the chin of San...
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Omniprésence
A documentary edited from ORLAN's seventh surgery in the The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN series wh...
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Synthetic Pleasures
Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and t...
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Tangible Striptease (en nanoséquences), une performance d’ORLAN et Mael le Mée
The philosophical notion of "self," which first appeared more than four hundred years ago in John Lo...
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