There are many ways in which we change our bodies to decorate or make a visual statement. One of these methods is tattoos and scarification. Tattoing skin has been around for hundreds of years, for such uses as marking what tribe you are in to just making a statement. Maori men and women created a type of body art called Ta moko. Ta Moko is the permanent body and face marking by Maori, the indigenous people of New Zeland. It is distinct from normal inked tattoos in that the skin was carved by chisels rather than punctured. This left the skin with grooves, rather than a smooth surface.
The Yakuza, or the Japanese mafia used unique tattoos to distinguish who was in their gang.
There are also non permanent ways of decorating such as body painting, which is just the simple method of using paint onto the skin. It gives the same effect as a tattoo without the permanent effects.
Another form of body decoration is body reshaping. This is when silicon implants are inserted under the skin in a specific shape or form and they stick out from under the skin. People are beginning to insert silicon into their two dimensional tattoos, to add another dimension to them.
Dr Gunther Von Hagens is a contreversial artist/scientist who elbams bodys and reforms the bodys in whatever pose he wants. He does this by replacing the bodily fluids with plastic essentially preserving the skin and organs. Von Hagens work is seen as very contreversial as it is not quite understood whether it is seen as art or science. It can percieved as a sick joke, or an eye opening look into the way the body works and moves.
Performance artists also experiment with the body as a place for art such as Marina Abramovic.
In one of her performances she explored elements of ritual and gesture using ten knives and a tape recorder. In this performance she was experimenting with the physicla andmental boundaries of the body.
ORLAN is another female performace artist that in her earlier work began a series of plastic surgeries in the course of which the she started to morph herself.
The Yakuza, or the Japanese mafia used unique tattoos to distinguish who was in their gang.
There are also non permanent ways of decorating such as body painting, which is just the simple method of using paint onto the skin. It gives the same effect as a tattoo without the permanent effects.
Another form of body decoration is body reshaping. This is when silicon implants are inserted under the skin in a specific shape or form and they stick out from under the skin. People are beginning to insert silicon into their two dimensional tattoos, to add another dimension to them.
Dr Gunther Von Hagens is a contreversial artist/scientist who elbams bodys and reforms the bodys in whatever pose he wants. He does this by replacing the bodily fluids with plastic essentially preserving the skin and organs. Von Hagens work is seen as very contreversial as it is not quite understood whether it is seen as art or science. It can percieved as a sick joke, or an eye opening look into the way the body works and moves.
Performance artists also experiment with the body as a place for art such as Marina Abramovic.
In one of her performances she explored elements of ritual and gesture using ten knives and a tape recorder. In this performance she was experimenting with the physicla andmental boundaries of the body.
ORLAN is another female performace artist that in her earlier work began a series of plastic surgeries in the course of which the she started to morph herself.
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