The Torso was a celebration of the amazing work machines which are still in use on the Russian scrapyard Bto Met: Especially interesting was the twelve meter tall wooden tower on rails.Meant for brute crushing, it houses an immense metal weight which simply falls from this height onto the scrap. A fascinating and raw system to flatten cast metal parts.
The group made a solid metal torso which was lowered by a magnetic crane into the crushing ditch. Then the wooden tower drove over the ditch. Falling from ten meters in height, the two-ton iron globe crushed the torso completely. The whole performance was accompanied by the stunning sounds of the machines.
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Machine Performance, torso
Eurokon, scrapyard Bto Met, Yekaterinburg 1996 | Linda Herzog
Machine Performance, torso crushed
Eurokon, scrapyard Bto Met, Yekaterinburg 1996 | Linda Herzog
Machine Performance, sketch
Eurokon, scrapyard Bto Met, Yekaterinburg 1996
Machine Performance, torso
Eurokon, scrapyard Bto Met, Yekaterinburg 1996
Machine Performance, torso
Eurokon, scrapyard Bto Met, Yekaterinburg 1996
Machine Performance, the main actor
Eurokon, scrapyard Bto Met, Yekaterinburg 1996
Machine Performance, the metal globe
Eurokon, scrapyard Bto Met, Yekaterinburg 1996
Machine Performance, magnetic crane
Eurokon, scrapyard Bto Met, Yekaterinburg 1996
Machine Performance, torso gets lowered into the crushing ditch
