ARBEIT AM FLEISCH addresses the transformation of the body in the digital age but also encourages visitors to reflect on and question the ethical and philosophical implications of an increasingly networked world.

Viewers are invited to question existing notions of identity and difference, thereby also taking a look at the history of the Vienna Actionists. Feuerstein draws on their provocative and transgressive approaches with similar themes such as corporeality, identity and the crossing of boundaries between art and life.

For example, for the Biophily project in 1996, he married a rubber tree in India to create a transgenic organism. This provocative action demonstrates Feuerstein’s innovative exploration of the boundaries of the human body and nature, as well as ritual practices. 31 years after Rudolf Schwarzkogler carried out his first action Wedding (1965), in which he acted like a shaman or magician and worked on various symbolically charged objects in order to then perform a kind of “mystical” wedding with a bride.