Orlan

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

0.3435

Gender

Female

Birthday

30-May-1947

Age

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Saint-Étienne, Loire, France

Also Known As
  • Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte
  • Mireille Porte

Orlan

Biography

ORLAN is a French contemporary artist best known for her work with plastic surgery in the early to mid-1990s. ORLAN is known as a pioneer of carnal art, a form of self-portraiture that utilizes body modification to distort one's appearance.


Credits

Cinématon XV Cinématon XV (1981) Character: N°149
Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Don Juan Don Juan (1980) Character: N/A
Venice will always be the city of romantic conquests.
Opération Opéra Opération Opéra (1991) Character: N/A
The 5th operation-surgical-performance called Operation-Opera took place on July 06, 1991 in Paris. During this operation, ORLAN was operated by Dr. Chérif Kamel Zahar and costumed by the designer Franck Sorbier. During the performance, the artist read “Le Tiers Instruit” by Michel Serres.
Orlan, carnal art Orlan, carnal art (2001) Character: self
A documentary covering the rebirth of St.Orlan from 1991 through most of the decade.
Opération réussie n. x Opération réussie n. x (1992) Character: self
Performance artist ORLAN undergoes one in a series of surgeries that would give her “the chin of Sandro Botticelli’s Venus in The Birth of Venus, the nose of Francois Pascal Simon Gerard’s Psyche in Le premier baisser de l’amour a Psyche, the eyes of Diana in the sculpture Diane chasseresse, the lips of Gustave Moreau’s Europa in L’enlevement d’Europe and the brow of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa to draw attention to received Western notions of beauty and femininity.
Omniprésence Omniprésence (1994) Character: self
A documentary edited from ORLAN's seventh surgery in the The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN series which aired live, vis satellite from New York in 1993.
Synthetic Pleasures Synthetic Pleasures (1995) Character: Self
Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and their influence on our culture as we approach the 21st century. It takes off from the idea that mankind's effort to tap the power of Nature has been so successful that a new world is suddenly emerging, an artificial reality. Virtual Reality, digital and biotechnology, plastic surgery and mood-altering drugs promise seemingly unlimited powers to our bodies, and ourselves. This film presents the implications of having access to such power as we all scramble to inhabit our latest science fictions.



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