Tabar, Ive: Europe IV [preparations and performance]

Tabar, Ive: Europe IV [preparations and performance]

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Title Europe IV [preparations and performance]
Type Performance, Body-art / Live-art, Perseverance performance
Date 1 March 2007
Venue Kapelica Gallery
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Kapelica Gallery
Language Slovene
Format 1920x1080
Duration 27' 08"
URL http://www.kapelica.org/index_en.html#event=636
Registration number KAP-2007-PERF-138
Number of works in a group 4

Synopsis

Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an academic background, it can be said that his artistic discourse emerged from practice - his dexterity in the handling of materials and tools. Ive is a male nurse at the intensive care unit of the Izola Hospital, where he constantly faces situations where the boundary between life and death is barely perceptible, and this is the quintessence of his artistic exploration. In his performances Ive uses medical knowledge and tools in an explicit and extreme artistic expression to underline the poignancy of the content or narrative. He has complete mastery of the medical tools that he works with and of his body, which he uses in and for performances, so medical expertise is never a concern.

 

Ive’s performances are either politically charged or more intimate. In any case their difficult aesthetic demands a keen sense of the medical environment (the artist’s professional background) and an understanding of the depersonalised emotions of doctors, who are required by medical ethics to sideline empathy to the patient in order to keep a steady hand.

Sodelujejo

Collaboration Vasja Kokelj, Dr. Gregor Ravnikar, Vanja Mervič, Robi Hrvatin - Kuki

Artist, artistic group

Group of artworks

Tabar Ive, Europe IV [edited recording], Ljubljana, 1 March 2007, 11' 55"
Tabar Ive, Europe III [edited recording], Ljubljana, 1 March 2007, 06' 10"
Tabar Ive, Europe II [edited recording], Koper / Capodistria, 1 March 2007
Tabar Ive, Europa I [edited recording], Ljubljana, 1 March 2007, 10' 20"

Subworks

Tabar Ive, Europe IV [preparations and performance], Ljubljana, 1 March 2007, 27' 08"
Tabar Ive, Europe IV [edited recording], Ljubljana, 1 March 2007, 11' 55"
Krpan Jurij; Tabar Ive, Europe IV [curator's statement], Ljubljana, 1 March 2007, 08' 43"
Tabar Ive, Europe IV [front view], Ljubljana, 1 March 2007, 11' 57"

Production

Venue

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Tabar Ive, El-en-i [unedited recording], Ljubljana, 10 December 1998, 14' 38"