“May the Horse Live in me” by Art Orienté Objet received the Golden Nica in the Hybrid Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2011.
The performance _May the Horse Live in Me_ is an attempt at “bioart” and extreme body art in which the animal foreign body, here the horse, is hybridized with the human body by means of an injection of horse blood (plasma).
About Art Orienté Objet
Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin (FR) came together in 1991 to form “Art Orienté Objet”. In a collaboration that resembles that between a playwright and a stage director who are in a constant dialogue, they are fascinated by the sciences of life in…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.