18 Astonishing Instances of Body Art

Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms are tattoos and body piercings. Other types include scarification, branding, subdermal implants, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.
It is also a sub-category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements. More extreme art can involve mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits.
In more recent times, the body has become a subject of much broader discussion and treatment than can be reduced to body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual bodies, among others.
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