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Works by Rebecca Horn:
Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Exercise 1: Scratching Both Walls at Once
Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Exercise 2: Twinkling Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Exercise 3: Feathers Dancing On Shoulders Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Exercise 4: Keeping Those Legs from Touching Each Other Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Exercise 5: Two Little Fish Remember a Dance Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Exercise 6: Rooms Encountering Each Other Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Exercise 7: The Jungle Sheds Her Skin Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Exercise 8: Cutting One’s Hair with Two Scissors at Once Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces: Execise 9: Epilogue Pencil Mask Cornucopia, Seance for Two Breasts The Dancing Cavalier Unicorn Finger Gloves Memorial Promenade (Buster's Bedroom) Paradise Widow White Body Fan
Rebecca Horn
«Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces»
«Sleeping underwater and seeing things that are happening far away» – this alternative title for the «Berlin-Exercises» illustrates the unexpectedly dreamlike and poetical dimension these seemingly documentary-style episodes possess. In eight exercises plus non-animated epilogue – hence the title «Berlin-Exercises in Nine Pieces» – the mis-en-scène of objects in an interior space serves Rebecca Horn as a way of investigating and perceiving internal states. These states are conveyed in constellations and sequences with a performance-like character that carries on from earlier works, particularly the outdoor ones. The title would seem to suggest that the city of Berlin constitutes an invisible foil, an ‹outside› perceptible only through the medium of mental processes in an empty room. The windows to the outside world are closed.
9. Epilogue
After the 8 «Berlin-Übungen» the following text is superimposed as an epilogue over the picture of the room, whose windows are now open: «When the woman and her lover lie on their sides, looking at each other, and she wraps her legs round his legs and the windows are open wide, it is the oasis.»
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