Orlan and biology based art

I first heard of Orlan a few years ago, when I read an article in Le Monde about how she was suing Lady Gaga for plagiarism.  I came across her again in Arthur Miller's Colliding Worlds, a book about where science and art meet.  She is a French artist.  She has worked quite extensively, but what she is most known for are plastic surgeries she underwent in order to achieve the male artist's ideal of female beauty.  The result of these surgeries is that she will have: the chine of Botticelli's Venus, the nose of Jean-Leon Gerome's Psyche, the lips of Boucher's Europa, the eyes of Diana from a 16th century French painting, and the forehead of the Mona Lisa.

Now these surgeries have been filmed and broadcast to the world.  She was awake for the surgeries, although on some pretty good pain killers.  Probably the most interesting though is the Harlequin Coat, which is a prototype for a tech living skin coat.  Some of the skin is from her own skin cells, and some from people of other races, and completely different species of animals, which are combined for the project.  I believe that she did this project at Symbiotica in Australia.   

This is a link to Symbiotica's blurb about Orlan.

http://www.stillliving.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/pages/artists/orlan.htm


This is an interview with Orlan.  Maybe I should add a warning that they do show a bit of a surgery in this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ1Ph-Pprj4