ABSTRACT
The current chapter makes a brief reference to the augmented body in performance from physical body extensions to wearables. The aim is that performers examine subjective mediated experience and explore its conceptual ramifications. We refer to transhumanism and posthumanism and are introduced to the term cyborg through the work of Donna Haraway and the art of pioneers Stelarc and Orlan. Performances introduced range from physical extensions of the body, to technological modifications to wearables that visualize data. Issues of race and gender, normality and monstrosity, the playful and the grotesque as well as ethical and social issues are challenges in the case studies examined. The activities explore mediated experiences of space, of movement and of relations.
