Tabar, Ive: Intubation [edited]

Tabar, Ive: Intubation [edited]

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Title Intubation [edited]
Type Performance, Body-art / Live-art, Perseverance performance
Date 11 December 1997
Venue Kapelica Gallery
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Kapelica Gallery
Format 720x576 pxl
Duration 02' 11"
URL http://www.kapelica.org/index_si.html#event=363
Registration number KAP-1997-PERF-195

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. 

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Collaboration Dr. Vladimir Stanković, Vesna Ličan, Vida Mrkajić, Mojca Arnuga, Bernarda Udovič, Danijela Rihter, Nadica Jankulović

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