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Performing Surgery: Exploring Gestures in the Operating Theater

In my arts-based research Performing Surgery (2015-2018) I investigate the gestures of surgeons. For this I attend different types of surgeries with a digital or a 16 mm camera. This article will present scenes of a 16 mm series of black and white short movies lasting four minutes with the title Mat...

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Julkaisussa:	URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces,
Päätekijä:	Lammer, Christina
Aineistotyyppi:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Kieli:	Anglais
Julkaistu:	Interfaces 2020
Aiheet:	langage du corps perception film ethnographie des sens chirurgie body language sensory ethnography surgery
Linkit:	Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_600 https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.600 urn:doi:10.4000/interfaces.600 en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/600 2020-12-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/h4gs https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Performing Surgery: Exploring Gestures in the Operating Theater Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces Lammer, Christina langage du corps perception film ethnographie des sens chirurgie body language perception film sensory ethnography surgery In my arts-based research Performing Surgery (2015-2018) I investigate the gestures of surgeons. For this I attend different types of surgeries with a digital or a 16 mm camera. This article will present scenes of a 16 mm series of black and white short movies lasting four minutes with the title Matters of the Heart I-VI of a heart surgery, an operation on the pancreas, an intervention on the blood flow, a surgery of the spine, a reconstruction of the eyelid after facial palsy and a brain surgery. I am particularly interested in the aesthetic aspects of surgery. How do surgeons connect with the bodies of their patients while operating on them? I suggest an approach that brings together art and surgery as parallel stories. Inspired by Jacques Derrida’s essay Mémoires d’aveugle. L’autoportrait et autres ruines (1990), by Jean-Luc Nancy’s texts L’Intrus (1999) and Le Plaisir au dessin (2009), I develop close-up images of the surgical act. In the recordings of surgeons’ hands performing intricate maneuvers during operations I address the humane dimensions of surgery. Thus I regard the medical ‘operating theater’ as a site of empathy, tenderness, intimacy and sensibility where the harmonious orchestration of hands generates the focus of attention. Since I do not like the manipulations on analogue film material in the editing room, the 16 mm movies are all done ‘in the camera’ while watching the surgeries. The idea behind this concept: In terms of the material body of the film – I do not use the knife, only the imaginary one. Lors de mon projet de recherche Performing surgery (2015-2018), j’ai étudié les gestes des chirurgiens. Pour ce faire, j’ai assisté à différents types d’opérations chirurgicales enregistrées à l’aide d’une caméra 16 mm ou numérique. Cet article présente des extraits d’une série 16mm en noir et blanc de courts métrages de 4 minutes, intitulée Matters of the Heart I-VI, dans lesquels on voit une opération du cœur, une opération sur le pancréas, une intervention sur le système circulatoire, une sur la colonne vertébrale, la reconstruction d’une paupière à la suite d’une paralysie faciale et une opération sur le cerveau. Quelles relations les chirurgiens entretiennent-ils avec le corps de leurs patients pendant l’acte chirurgical ? Je propose une approche qui relie art et chirurgie en tant que récits parallèles. Inspirée par l’essai de Jacques Derrida Mémoires d’aveugle. L’autoportrait et autres ruines (1990), et les textes de Jean-Luc Nancy L’Intrus (1999) et Le Plaisir au dessin (2009), je me concentre sur des gros plans de la pratique chirurgicale. En montrant les mains des chirurgiens occupées à leurs tâches minutieuses, je dévoile la dimension humaine de la chirurgie. Ainsi, je montre le bloc opératoire comme un lieu empathique, tendre, intime et sensible, un théâtre où jouent, comme dans un concert harmonieux, les mains sur lesquelles se portent toute l’attention. Comme je n’aime pas manipuler en salle de montage des pellicules analogiques, les films sont tous pris ‘in camera’ lors de l’observation. L’idée qui préside à cette décision et de ne pas faire de coupure, sinon imaginaire.
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topic	langage du corps perception film ethnographie des sens chirurgie body language perception film sensory ethnography surgery
spellingShingle	langage du corps perception film ethnographie des sens chirurgie body language perception film sensory ethnography surgery Lammer, Christina Performing Surgery: Exploring Gestures in the Operating Theater
description	In my arts-based research Performing Surgery (2015-2018) I investigate the gestures of surgeons. For this I attend different types of surgeries with a digital or a 16 mm camera. This article will present scenes of a 16 mm series of black and white short movies lasting four minutes with the title Matters of the Heart I-VI of a heart surgery, an operation on the pancreas, an intervention on the blood flow, a surgery of the spine, a reconstruction of the eyelid after facial palsy and a brain surgery. I am particularly interested in the aesthetic aspects of surgery. How do surgeons connect with the bodies of their patients while operating on them? I suggest an approach that brings together art and surgery as parallel stories. Inspired by Jacques Derrida’s essay Mémoires d’aveugle. L’autoportrait et autres ruines (1990), by Jean-Luc Nancy’s texts L’Intrus (1999) and Le Plaisir au dessin (2009), I develop close-up images of the surgical act. In the recordings of surgeons’ hands performing intricate maneuvers during operations I address the humane dimensions of surgery. Thus I regard the medical ‘operating theater’ as a site of empathy, tenderness, intimacy and sensibility where the harmonious orchestration of hands generates the focus of attention. Since I do not like the manipulations on analogue film material in the editing room, the 16 mm movies are all done ‘in the camera’ while watching the surgeries. The idea behind this concept: In terms of the material body of the film – I do not use the knife, only the imaginary one.
author	Lammer, Christina
author_facet	Lammer, Christina
author_sort	Lammer, Christina
title	Performing Surgery: Exploring Gestures in the Operating Theater
title_short	Performing Surgery: Exploring Gestures in the Operating Theater
title_full	Performing Surgery: Exploring Gestures in the Operating Theater
title_fullStr	Performing Surgery: Exploring Gestures in the Operating Theater
title_full_unstemmed	Performing Surgery: Exploring Gestures in the Operating Theater
title_sort	performing surgery: exploring gestures in the operating theater
publisher	Interfaces
publishDate	2020
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