Rebecca Horn / Cutting Hair & Oasis

Rebecca Horn

1974/75 Berlin (10 Nov. 1974 -- 28 Jan. 1975) -- Exercises in nine parts

"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."

In the first part of this final performance in the series, the actor Otto Sander reads out a passage of text. In the second part, Rebecca Horn cuts her hair. The simultaneity of her two hands' actions, the metallic clipping of scissors, and her resolute stare into the camera heighten the atmosphere of menace.

The Text of Otto Sander:
Tongues flickering, their heads move back and forth until the scaly skin beneath the throat is touching. The instant physical contact is established, they begin to entwine. The aggressive fighting dance of the two partners is characterized by a gradual, mutual loss of momentum and the beating against each other of their forebodies. The jerkily undulating bodies wind so tightly round each other that the two snakemen merge into a single body whose two heads move back and fro in parallel. The fight is decided when the stronger animal has pressed his opponent down against the floor.

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[Kye999Guy]

i want to do that!!

[se146np]

@Kye999Guy that's fairly dangerous xd

[irishgummybear]

@menenartista Not really. The only thing I know is that she was born in 1941 and she works in Paris and Germany. She's some kind of artist kind of like a female Andy Warhol maybe?

[menenartista]

@Kye999Guy yes

[menenartista]

@irishgummybear do you know something about the work of Rebecca Horn? or about her life?

[irishgummybear]

I don't understand this. Was this story about a sexual position and a beautiful women with a bad hair cut supposed to be art? I think I just saw Edward Scissor Hands if he were a red headed women? I love Germans, but you sure are freaky!

[Kye999Guy]

is she alive nw?

[Kye999Guy]

@se146np once.. b4 i die.. :D

ya if i do it, thats jst b4 my death.. :D anyone thr who will allow me?