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Categories: Action
Keywords: Object | Self-Portrait
Works by Rebecca Horn:
Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces
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 Cornucopia, Seance for Two Breasts The Dancing Cavalier Unicorn Finger Gloves Memorial Promenade (Buster's Bedroom) Paradise Widow White Body Fan
Rebecca Horn
«Pencil Mask»
While Rebecca Horn's more recent work has been determined by a poetical deployment of mechanical constructions, this object belongs to 'Performances II' (1973), a film in which Rebecca Horn was preoccupied still with extending her own body into space. Besides the 'Pencil Mask', body extensions also figured in the performances 'Einhorn' ('Unicorn'), 'Kopf-Extension' ('Head Extension'), 'Weißer Körperfächer' ('White Body Fan'), 'Meine Hand kann fliegen' ('My Hand Can Fly'), 'Gavin', 'Hahnenmaske' (Cockfeather Mask'), 'Fingerhandschuhe' ('Finger Gloves') and 'Kakadu-Maske' ('Cockatoo Mask').
