Schlagworte-Archive: Operating Theatre / Operationstheater

Theatre Studies

Theatre Studies

Vienna – Fieldwork at the operating theatre of plastic and reconstructive surgery

The studies during nerve and muscle transplantation in plastic and reconstructive surgery are continued at General Hospital / Medical University Vienna (MUV). A theatre metaphor is used to explore the perception of the Leib (living body) and its features in this particular biomedical field.

Photograph: Christina Lammer, 2011

Operating Theatre

Operating Theatre

FEATURES – Art + Medicine Dialogues 3raum Anatomietheater Vienna, October 2010 With the help of a video camera (on a tripod), a ‘nonhuman wittness’, so to say, during surgical operations and other situations, which I try to grasp, sensory details can be captured, an atmosphere in a particular moment or unexpected things, examples of normalcy… Continue Reading