Perhaps the story of the umbilical cord is the return towards life, it is like a need to attach oneself to something, it is the searching for a father-mother-son tie
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Perhaps the story of the umbilical cord is the return towards life, it is like a need to attach oneself to something, it is the searching for a father-mother-son tie
Learning to live with AIDS is…to take over ideas like help, solidarity, love or devotion
“Good medicine is about more than a set of technical decisions or interventions involving drugs, operations and tests. It demands identification with another’s suffering, moral deliberation, wisdom and insight. The arts can illuminate this view of medicine. But it is not enough to expose doctors training in medical schools to the humanities, and there’s […]
In the context of SpaceBaby, a parallel was drawn between shiftworkers and astronauts on long haul space missions.
Hatoum highlights the invasive tendencies of medical technologies, graphically displaying their ‘ultimate violation of the human body’
Artist: Marina Abramović Condensed Biography: Abramović is a performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. In her art practice she mainly explores themes of pain, physical resistance and relationships between bodies. Works include sculpture, video, installation and performance. Location: New York, United States Artwork: Rhythm 2 (1974) Genre: performance art, conceptual art Description: […]
Artist: Hotel Pro Forma Condensed Biography: Hotel Pro Forma is an artistic production company that, using a visual and musical form of theatre, illustrates large issues, seen from new angles and in new ways. Beautiful and sublime are words often applied to the works. Hotel Pro Forma was started by the visual artist Kirsten Dehlholm […]
Artist: Hotel Pro Forma Condensed Biography: Hotel Pro Forma is an artistic production company that, using a visual and musical form of theatre, illustrates large issues, seen from new angles and in new ways. Beautiful and sublime are words often applied to the works. Hotel Pro Forma was started by the visual artist Kirsten Dehlholm […]
Artist: Hotel Pro Forma Condensed Biography: Hotel Pro Forma is an international laboratory of visual music performance and installations… …The structure of the work is strongly anchored in music, visual arts and architecture and does not follow traditional theatrical structures. Instead the work presents visual and musical universes that investigate universal subjects such as evolution, […]
Artist: Ivo Dimchev Condensed Biography: Ivo Dimchev /1976/ is a choreographer and performer from Bulgaria. His work is extreme and colourful mixture of performance art, dance, theater, music, drawings and photography. Dimchev is author of more than 30 performances. He has received numerous international awards for dance and theater and has presented his work all over Europe, South […]