TEKKEN TORTURE TOURNAMENT

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artist: Eddo Stern

inception: 2001

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During the TEKKEN TORTURE TOURNAMENT performance, willing participants received bracing but non-lethal electrical shocks in correspondence to the injuries sustained by their onscreen avatars in the popular fighting game, TEKKEN 3.

attributed to: Rhizome staff

inception: 2021

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game performance/custom hardware
(Eddo Stern, Mark Allen)
During the Tekken Torture Tournament performance, 32 willing participants received bracing but non-lethal electrical shocks in correspondence to the injuries sustained by their onscreen avatars. Players wore shocking arm straps wired through a hardware/software hack of the world’s most popular fighting Playstation game TEKKEN 3.
LINKS:
Official c-level Tekken Tourture Tournament Page - http://www.c-level.cc/tekken1.html
TTT release form - http://www.c-level.cc/tekken/legal.html
PERFORMANCES:
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
C-level, Los Angeles, CA
Outfest, Platinum Oasis, Los Angeles, CA
Kent Explora,Tel-Aviv, Israel
Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide, Australia
The Kitchen, New York, NY
REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA

attributed to: Eddo Stern

inception: 17 November 2004

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artist: Eddo Stern

title: TEKKEN TORTURE TOURNAMENT

inception: 2001

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access URL: http://www.eddostern.com/tekken_torture_tournament.html

inception: 2001

associated with: Eddo Stern

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access URL: http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/28758/www.eddostern.com/tekken_torture_tournament.html

inception: 17 November 2004

generated by: cloning

associated with: Rhizome staff