Rebecca Horn

Review of Performances II, Video documentation of various performances, Rebecca Horn, as seen in exhibition “WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1970-1973, Article Art and the Imaginative promise, January 3, 2008

he study offers an example of the iconization of suffering towards the analysis of the Cult of the "abandoned souls" practiced in the so-called Fontanelle cemetery in Naples. The particularity of the Fontanelle cemetery is the fact that after the political unification of Italy, it becomes a place of a special cult of the skulls of the dead. The skulls were "adopted" by the Neapolitan population and kept in particular care. The Neapolitan cult of the skulls of the dead, called Culto delle anime pezzentelle, lasted the town until 1969. In that year the cult was abruptly interrupted by civil and ecclesiastical authorities. Relicts of the cult are still present among some of the city's elders. The symbolism of the cult was later picked up by renowned artists, such as Rebecca Horn, who was the author, of many installations in Naples and other towns referring to the skulls of the Fontanelle cemetery. Although it is a general opinion that the cult represents an iconization of suffering, very little has been done to understand the deep historical and cultural reasons for this suffering.

Abstract: The purpose of the research is to describe the creative process and mental transfer of creative drama activities in middle schools with a philosophy-based approach to art education. The theoretical analysis of the research problem is composed of thinkers who bring a psychological and sociological approach to aesthetics. A new approach is being developed on the usability of performance arts and creative drama activities as creative examples in art education courses in the context of basic philosophical thought systems and creative drama activities in art education by examining the discourses on art of the thinkers included in the sample of the research in comparison with each others. Performance art constitutes the aimed sampling of the research. In addition to putting the performance art as a demonstration; individual, original sense and perception studies can also be defined as transformation of the vital language into artistic action. Artists such as Rebecca Horn and Lygia Clark have challenged their work to reveal their awareness processes, to raise awareness, and questioned the language of communication between man and the environment. In the interpretation of findings, performance art is analyzed through creative drama activity through easy access case sampling.
The results obtained with the analysis in the relational study have also reached the conclusion that the use of performance art in art education determines the levels of social skills and perceptions related to perception. Within the context of creative drama activities, the work of different artists of performance art has an applicable quality in art education due to their being the expression of inner life into a shared dimension, being brought to the viewer (community) and the resultant relational solutions directing the experimental studies and this is of great importance.
Özet: Araştırmanın amacı; ortaokullarda yaratıcı drama etkinliklerinin sanat eğitiminde felsefe temelli yaklaşım ile birlikte yaratıcı edim sürecinin ve zihinsel aktarımlarının betimlenmesidir. Araştırma probleminin kuramsal çözümlemesini, estetiğe psikolojik ve sosyolojik yaklaşım getiren düşünürler oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmanın örnekleminde yer alan düşünürlerin sanat üzerine söylemleri birbirleriyle karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenerek, elde edilen temel felsefi düşünce sistemleri ile sanat eğitiminde yaratıcı drama etkinlikleri bağlamında performans sanatı ve yaratıcı drama etkinliklerinin sanat eğitimi derslerinde yaratıcı örneklem olarak kullanılabilirliği üzerine yeni bir yaklaşım geliştirilmektedir. Araştırmanın amaçlı örneklemini performans sanatı oluşturmaktadır. Performans sanatı bir gösteri gibi ortaya konulmasının yanında, bireysel, özgün duyum ve algı çalışmaları da yaşamsal dilin sanatsal eyleme dönüşmesi olarak tanımlanabilir. Örneğin, Rebecca Horn ve Lygia Clark gibi performans sanatçıları, çalışmalarını kendi bilinç süreçlerini tanıma, farkındalık geliştirme adına ortaya koymuş, insan ve çevre arasındaki iletişim dilini sorgulamışlardır. Bu bağlamda araştırmanın bulgularının yorumlanmasında kolay ulaşılabilir durum örneklemesi ile yaratıcı drama etkinliği kapsamında performans sanatı örneklemi analiz edilmektedir.
İlişkisel incelemede analizlerle de elde edilen verilerle performans sanatının sanat eğitiminde kullanımının sosyal beceri düzeylerine ve algılara ilişkin sonuç ilişkileri belirlediği sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Yaratıcı drama etkinlikleri kapsamında performas sanatının farklı sanatçılarının çalışmaları bu anlamda, içsel yaşantının dışavurumu ve paylaşımsal boyuta taşınması, izleyici (topluluk) karşısına çıkması ve bunun getirisi olan ilişkisel çözümlemelerin deneysel çalışmaları yönlendirmesi sanat eğitiminde kullanılabilir bir niteliğe sahiptir ve büyük önem taşır.

First Prize for Innovative Research and Presentation Delivery for “Auri Sacra Fames: gold in contemporary art,” awarded by the Case Western Reserve University Friends of Art at the 39th Annual Cleveland Symposium, “Splendor: Exploring Value in the History of Art,” October 2013.

Gold's representational capacity is dual: it can symbolize spirituality, transcendence and magic and also the exact opposite, that is, monetary value. Contemporary artists regard this highly charged tradition somewhat ambiguously. This paper provides a general introduction to what is perhaps the most hotly-debated concept in contemporary art: that of value. Through a tentative analysis of the definition of value, within an interdisciplinary  framework (anthropological, philosophical and sociological), this study discusses the perceived social and economic nature of value through the introduction of gold ingots in contemporary art from 1959 until the present.

Estudo de caso da obra " Tocando as paredes com as duas mãos simultaneamente " da artista Rebecca Horn. Estabelecimento de relações com teorias sobre corpo e percepção espacial através de análise da obra e de seu processo de criação dentro da poética e contexto pessoal da artista, com metodologia de trabalho analítica e comparativa.