Rebecca Horn / performances and films
Projection of Rebecca Horn's performances and films
Cinema Udarnik, Grajski trg 1
Tuesday, 6 November 2012ĐŽ
guest: prof. Dušan Zidar, Faculty of Education, University of Maribor
Before the closing of the exhibition Maribor Project / Rebecca Horn & Guests Rebecca Horn's performances, films and documentary films will be presented.
10.00 projection of Performances 2 and Berlin Exercises
Performances 2 (1973) present nine performances: Unicorn, Head Extension, White Body Fan, Finger Gloves, Feather Finger, Gavin, Cockfeather Mask, Pencil Mask, Cockatoo Mask. Berlin (10 Nov. 1974 – 28 Jan. 1975) – Exercises in nine parts include eight performances: Dreaming under water of things afar, documentation of eight performances with an epilogue: Touching the walls with both hands simultaneously, Blinking, Feathers dance on the shoulders, Keeping hold of those unfaithful legs, Two little fish remember a dance, Rooms meet in mirrors, Shedding skin between moist tongue leaves, Cutting one’s hair with two pairs of scissors simultaneously, When a woman and her lover lie on one side looking at each other; and she twines her legs around the man’s legs with the window wide open, it is the oasis. After the projection Dušan Zidar will talk about Rebecca Horn's work from early period.
18.00 projection of Cutting through the past
A documentary by Rebecca Horn for the retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1993), with a conversation between Donald Sutherland and Rebecca Horn.
19.00 projection of Der Eintänzer and La Ferdinanda
Der Eintänzer is first feature film by Rebecca Horn with David Warrilow, Timothy Baum, Geta Konstantinescu, Elisabeth and Kathleen Martin. One of the characteristics of Rebecca Horn's films are her artworks, presented in her films, such as feather objects, ostrich eggs, wheel chairs, strait-jackets and geological hammers. Objects are used by film characters to satisfy their needs and innocent curiosity and they set an imaginary museum of Rebecca Horn's works. Rebecca Horn's second feature film La Ferdinanda: Sonata for a Medici Villa (1981) with Valentina Cortese, Rita Poelvoorde, Javier Escriba and David Warrilow.
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