Watch An Orchestra Made Of Electrified Kitchen Knives Perform The Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive'

If you've been holding out for the day that the worlds of disco, science and culinary implements would meet at last, then hold out no longer, fair idiot, because UK-born, LA-based exploratory artist Neil Mendoza has got you covered.

The wild-haired creative has brought those three disparate realms together with his new piece, The Electric Knife Orchestra Presents Stayin' Alive, which rounds up 16 mean-looking kitchen knives - and one meat cleaver - and hooks them up to motors and electric currents and contraptions and magics its way to recreating the Bee Gees' iconic 1977 hit, Stayin' Alive. As if you even need another reason to watch this.

Mendoza doesn't just specialise in bringing to life our nightmares about the inevitable day that inanimate objects gain sentience and rise up to kill us all, though. Over a career that has seen his work exhibited at The Science Museum, The V&A, The Nottingham Playhouse, The Museum Of London and several other renowned institutions, the artist has consistently created engaging, memorable works for both commercial and personal purposes, including, among several others, Explosions Of Flavour - a video of sacks of herbs exploding in slow-motion set to piano music - and the wonderful madness of The Ponytron, which must be seen to be understood.

See Mendoza's full portfolio at his website.

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