Science Fiction in Performance Art

Science fiction spans several media: not only books, movies, or television. Art is also an important manifestation of science fiction. Several contemporary and moder artists have exposed their art in order to let people witness a different view on art. In this case, and if we talk about science fiction, there are people whose work is explicitly a manifesto of how the world is constantly evolving into a more sofisticate and technological status: something that we already know by movies, for example.

Art can be read in heaps of ways. What is beautiful for one person, can be grotesque for the other person. It all depends in how you contemplate art and how you get to understand its meaning. This way, some artists and their performance can be read as science fiction in modern art.

Some of them work and act as a means to react against established orders or issues that need to be questioned. For example, British performance artist Alice Newstead protested against the use and consumption of shark fins inside LUSH cosmetics in San Francisco, USA. 

Alice stayed suspended for several hours on August 24, 2011. She was using the art of body suspension to show how sharks are slaughtered and hung in order to obtain their fins. She used blueish and greenish colors to emulate the environment in which sharks normally live when they are free. Her legs were covered by a blanket that represented the shark fin. She somehow looked like a half-human, half-shark lady, similar to those humanoid creatures that we know through science fiction movies; like that half-animal, half-human creature from Vincenzo Natali's 2009 movie Splice:

Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 2009)

Here are some other pictures of Alice Newstead and her several performances:

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