Maimed Artist

Name: Maimed Artist
Director: Nick Gorski
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1984-08-27
Duration: 22 min
Cast: Mark Pauline, Matt Heckert, Eric Werner

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Directed by Nick Gorski

Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories. As the Title suggests, Pauline lost most of one hand during experimentation. 'Maimed Artist' explores the often destructive world of such performance art, where there is a fine line between entertainment and insanity.

sculptureperformance artmachineindustrialkinetic sculptureviolencesurvival research laboratoriesmachine performance