Rebecca Horn's Concert For Anarchy, 1990:
Concert For Anarchy, 1990.Painted wood, metal and electronic components
sculpture.
After visiting the Tate Modern I discovered this scultpture by Rebbecca Horn called "Concert For Anarchy". The Sculpture has a mechanism within the piano which is timed to go off every two to three minutes, thrusting the keys out of the keyboard in a cacophonous shudder. The keys, ordinarily the point of tactile contact with the instrument, fan disarmingly out into space. At the same time, the piano’s lid falls open to reveal the instrument’s harp-like interior, the strings reverberating at random. This unexpected, violent act is followed between one and two minutes later by a retraction as the lid closes and the keys slide back into place, tunelessly creaking as they go.
sculpture.
After visiting the Tate Modern I discovered this scultpture by Rebbecca Horn called "Concert For Anarchy". The Sculpture has a mechanism within the piano which is timed to go off every two to three minutes, thrusting the keys out of the keyboard in a cacophonous shudder. The keys, ordinarily the point of tactile contact with the instrument, fan disarmingly out into space. At the same time, the piano’s lid falls open to reveal the instrument’s harp-like interior, the strings reverberating at random. This unexpected, violent act is followed between one and two minutes later by a retraction as the lid closes and the keys slide back into place, tunelessly creaking as they go.
