ORLAN is a French performance artist born as Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte who reborn herself as ORLAN in 1971. She is known for works like The Reincarnation of Saint-Orlan from 1990-1993 where she used plastic surgery to modify her facial features to resemble famous artworks as a commentary on cultural standards of beauty. Daito Manabe is a Japanese performance artist who links his body to others through electric stimulation in response to music, creating temporary body modifications through self-inflicted pain. Both artists view the body as a medium and focus on the process over the final product while relinquishing control and viewing the body as a "body-machine".

1. ORLAN & Daito Manabe

2. ORLAN
• Born: Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte (1947)
• Reborn: ORLAN (1971)

3. Carnal Art

4. The Reincarnation of Saint-Orlan 1990-1993

5. Francois Boucher's Europa

6. Mona Lisa

7. Botticelli's Venus

8. Daito Manabe
Link to 4 person
Link to 36 people

9. ORLAN & Daito Manabe compared
ORLAN
• Permanent
• Inflicted by
others
• Audience
participation
• Plastic Surgery
BOTH
• Painless
• Durational
performance
• Body as medium
• Process over product
• No control
• “Body-machine”
DAITO MANABE
• Temporary
• Self inflicted with
others
• Audience
reaction
• Electric Stimulis
with music