Rebecca Horn's Finger Gloves

Today's Fine Art 4D workshop gave me the opportunity to carry out some of the more whimsical ideas I came up with. I particularly enjoyed working with film and capturing a sense of uncomfortable uncanniness through motion and sound. Rebecca Horn's Finger Gloves performance piece possesses a similar unnerving, sensory quality that excites me. I have come to realise my fascination with the audience response of feeling uncomfortable after having experienced a piece of artwork. While watching the video of Horn's performance, I found myself feeling both uneasy and enthralled at the same time. The way in which Horn has chosen one small unnerving feeling and exaggerated it using props translates very well into the form of video. I can tell that the length of each 'finger glove' has been carefully calculated so that the tips of each one lightly stratch the surrounding walls as she walks. It almost reminds me of the widely disliked sensation of dragging nails across a chalkboard.

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