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Ive Tabar’s Political Body Art Performances

Abstract This article is an attempt to define a new paradigm of body use in the medical performances of the Slovenian body artist Ive Tabar. By profession Tabar is a medical technician. Between 1999 and 2007 he enacted four political body art performances in the Kapelica gallery in Ljubljana and Loža in Koper entitled Evropa I, II, III and IV. At first sight these were body art performances of ‘the older type’, in which the body is the site of the performance and which Tabar invasively subjected to various medical instruments and processes. But in actual fact Tabar has enacted a crucial shift in his performative practice related to his attitude to pain: instead of endorsing pain as an ontological condition of the body art practice, he offers us the body as a tool for the political message of the performance.