Tabar, Ive: Europe III [close-up view]

Tabar, Ive: Europe III [close-up view]

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Title Europe III [close-up view]
Type Performance, Body-art / Live-art, Perseverance performance
Date 19 November 2003
Venue Kapelica Gallery
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Kapelica Gallery
Format 720x576 pxl
Duration 10' 42"
URL www.kapelica.org/index_en.html#event=535
Registration number KAP-2003-PERF-136
Number of works in a group 4

Synopsis

In the performance with subtitle Fingernail Tabar problematises the effect of otherwise completely legitimate, the majority decision of Slovenian citizens, that Slovenia becomes a part of the European Union. The unbearable predominance of the majority over an anonymous individual Tabar symbolizes with an irritant feeling of pulling off his fingernails. The performance consists of ambulatory procedure of undermining a fingernail (Ablatio – separating the fingernail from the skin at the end of the finger) which he pulls off with surgical scissors and with a needle, on which there is the European Flag, fixates it on the place of a fingernail on chimera composed from national marketing archetype – endemic proteus which in the caudal part changes into the cast of a finger.

Sodelujejo

Collaboration Vasja Kokelj, Dr. Gregor Ravnikar, Andrej Jakomin, Vanja Mervič, Robi Hrvatin - Kuki, Darko Čačić

Artist, artistic group

Group of artworks

Tabar Ive, Europe IV [edited recording], Ljubljana, 19 November 2003, 11' 55"
Tabar Ive, Europe III [edited recording], Ljubljana, 19 November 2003, 06' 10"
Tabar Ive, Europe II [edited recording], Koper / Capodistria, 19 November 2003
Tabar Ive, Europa I [edited recording], Ljubljana, 19 November 2003, 10' 20"

Subworks

Tabar Ive, Europe III [close-up view], Ljubljana, 19 November 2003, 10' 42"
Tabar Ive, Europe III [unedited view], Ljubljana, 19 November 2003, 57' 00"
Tabar Ive, Europe III [edited recording], Ljubljana, 19 November 2003, 06' 10"

Production

Venue

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