This is her piece is titled "Arm Extension"(1968) And uses fabric wood and metal to keep the form.
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=25&searchid=9468
Finger Gloves 1972
Fingerhandschuhe
Wood, fabric and metal
sculpture
"Ideas of touch and sensory awareness are explored in this work. Horn has described how wearing these gloves altered her relationship with her surroundings, so that distant objects came within her reach: ‘the finger gloves are light. I can move them without any effort. Feel, touch, grasp anything, but keeping a certain distance from the objects. The lever-action of the lengthened fingers intensifies the various sense-data of the hand; ...I feel me touching, I see me grasping, I control the distance between me and the objects.’ Implicit in the work is the idea that touching makes possible an intimacy between our own body and those of others."
This notion of creating extra senses is something that fascinates me, not only does it enhance the appearance, but due to its location it enhances the senses connected to the device... in this case, the fingertips. This device brings the distance closer, while all the time these items are out of reach as the practicality of the device is almost unusable.
This side not really that relevant to my side of body extension as mine was more practical based, well it had to be to fit into context of my work. Rebecca Horn has been in the field of sculpture for over 40 years and has had a few dabbles in body extension. But the pieces are to be based on their artistic merit over ability to successfully implement a body extension.
I guess when you think about it there is a lot of body extension going about today.
Getting fake nails to hair extensions all the way to piercings, these are a form of bod yextension and each comes with extra sensory action, sometimes sensitivity to an area and other times an extension of touch or weight.
The environment in which pieces are used also have detrimental effects on the piece and the experience for the user.
I think that the clever use of extra sensory can be heightened by countering with the removal of another, for example the finger gloves could
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/berlin-uebungen/video/1/
This video is the finger gloves in use and scraping two walls at one time. Interesting, sound is as weird as it probably felt on your fingertips.
The notion of extra sensory body extension frightens me a little, because it can also be created to give the user negative sensory damage, and this could be implemented in pain. But I guess my argument is flawed because anything could be adapted in this way.
This notion of creating extra senses is something that fascinates me, not only does it enhance the appearance, but due to its location it enhances the senses connected to the device... in this case, the fingertips. This device brings the distance closer, while all the time these items are out of reach as the practicality of the device is almost unusable.
This side not really that relevant to my side of body extension as mine was more practical based, well it had to be to fit into context of my work. Rebecca Horn has been in the field of sculpture for over 40 years and has had a few dabbles in body extension. But the pieces are to be based on their artistic merit over ability to successfully implement a body extension.
I guess when you think about it there is a lot of body extension going about today.
Getting fake nails to hair extensions all the way to piercings, these are a form of bod yextension and each comes with extra sensory action, sometimes sensitivity to an area and other times an extension of touch or weight.
The environment in which pieces are used also have detrimental effects on the piece and the experience for the user.
I think that the clever use of extra sensory can be heightened by countering with the removal of another, for example the finger gloves could
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/berlin-uebungen/video/1/
This video is the finger gloves in use and scraping two walls at one time. Interesting, sound is as weird as it probably felt on your fingertips.
The notion of extra sensory body extension frightens me a little, because it can also be created to give the user negative sensory damage, and this could be implemented in pain. But I guess my argument is flawed because anything could be adapted in this way.
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