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Categories: Action
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 Pencil Mask Cornucopia, Seance for Two Breasts The Dancing Cavalier Unicorn Finger Gloves Memorial Promenade (Buster's Bedroom) Paradise Widow
Rebecca Horn
«White Body Fan»
While Rebecca Horn's more recent work has been determined by a poetical deployment of mechanical constructions, this object – a metal construction measuring 300 cm in diameter – belongs to the film 'Performances II’, 1973, in which Rebecca Horn was preoccupied still with extending her own body into space. Besides the 'White Body Fan’, body extensions also figured in the performances 'Einhorn' ('Unicorn'), 'Kopf-Extension' ('Head Extension'), 'Bleistiftmaske' ('Pencil Mask'), 'Meine Hand kann fliegen' ('My Hand Can Fly'), 'Gavin', 'Hahnenmaske' (Cockfeather Mask'), 'Fingerhandschuhe' ('Finger Gloves') and 'Kakadu-Maske' ('Cockatoo Mask'). She produced a variation on this work with the action 'Mechanischer Körperfächer' ('Mechanical Body Fan') in 1974.
