Personal Context-Rebecca Horn is a German visual artist, who is famous for her body art, performance and installations -In her performance, she has made body-extensions to explore the equilibrium between body and space. Later on, she made kinetic sculptures to replace parts of the human body, which seem to have developed their own life -In Horn’s sculptural constructions for the body, she has undertaken the most systematic investigation of individual subjectivity -“Despite the sculptures’ medical imagery are deliberately clumsy and functionless, while other works attest to the unacknowledged affinities between humans, animals and machines” (Watling, 2012) Keeping Those Legs from Touching Each Other, 1974-5-In her piece, Keeping Those Legs from Touching Each Other, 1974-5, she has made two matching garments that are designed to be worn by two performers -Each of these garments is made from white bandage-like straps, which stretches from ones waist and hips down to their leg. One of the performers wear it around their left leg, and the other around the right -As there are powerful magnets that runs vertically down the outer part of each performer’s leg. As the two performers move together side by side, they have to try and stay apart from each other, despite that these magnets would repeatedly pull their legs together with a loud clacking sound -The original title of her work is ‘The Unfaithful Legs’, which suggests how one is unable to control their legs because of the intervening of the magnets AfterThoughts-In my own performance, I plan to interact with magnets. However, instead of just sticking two pieces of magnets together, I would like to play with three magnets, and act as the fourth piece, showcasing how four pieces of magnets could not work as two, and will be separated into smaller groups or another person left aside in the group
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Artist StatementOne’s clothing can reflect their character and mood. In particular, changes in their style of clothes and choice of colour correlates to changes in their relationship with closed and loved ones. Archives
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