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Instead of thematizing this abuse set up by the 'normal' majority as a paradigm for disabled, unwhole bodies, we will try to indicate how this paradigm collapses if we equip, extend, improve... the 'normal' body with technological prostheses. We will describe several artistic projects where artists equip their body with additional functionalities – usually electronic or mechanical add-ons – which add new functionalities to existing ones. They enable the artists to expand the potentials of their expression and to attain a clear expressive advantage over the normal body. We could say that from the standpoint of productivity and efficiency, the category of disability has thus been expanded to include what was previously understood to be a normal body, thus revealing bodily disability as an ideologically and historically obsolete paradigm. The method of supplement, that old post-structuralist trick, proves to be well in place in this discourse.



















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