TIL Survival Research Laboratories is a performance art group that pioneered large scale machine performances. They put on noisy, violent, and destructive shows that can be very dangerous to audiences
Mark Pauline is an undisputed mastermind when it comes to sticking it to the man. For the past thirty years, he's been mesmerizing audiences and machinophiles around the world with his terrifying and satirical machine-based performances. Offering an alternative outlet for would-be war machines and their engineers, Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is a performance art group that re-appropriates these tools of weaponized industry into objects of pure entertainment. Their shows are a cacophonous melee of fast spinning parts, large projectiles, and explosions... did we mention the flame hurricane? They made a flame hurricane.
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Dr. Octopus
I really hoped nobody commented that, I would have done it. Octoavius
So cool. Haven't thought about this collective in ages
https://youtube.com/@survivalresearchlabs?si=h0WsVT6Dht6HGyAE there youtube channel as well. Not very active though.
Horizon Zero Dawn vibe!