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1973

Head Sculpture

Performance documentation
Tel Aviv, Israel

Observational

Collection · 16 items
Sub-collection

performance art

Sub-collection · 38 items

Spectacle

Collection · 9 items
Sub-collection

Wearables and Tools

Sub-collection · 36 items

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Observational

Collection · 16 items
Sub-collection

performance art

Sub-collection · 38 items

Spectacle

Collection · 9 items
Sub-collection

Wearables and Tools

Sub-collection · 36 items

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Walking piece

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VALIE EXPORT Peter Weibel
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Walking the Cabbage

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Head Sculpture, a performance by Efrat Natan, used a T-shaped headpiece worn while walking in Tel Aviv after Independence Day to restrict vision and draw attention, questioning belonging, conformity, and militarized urban space through bodily limitation.

Head Sculpture took place in Tel Aviv the morning after the Israel Independence Day military parade and consisted of a T-shaped sculpture that sat over the walker’s head, creating a very specific and narrowed point of view to the front and two sides. This limited the sight of the walker and also drew a great deal of attention to Natan due to the scale of the sculpture, which would have stood out as irregular on the busy urban corner of Frishman and Dizengoff streets. The reduction of vision poses conceptual questions about belonging and nonconforming, which further resonated with the timing of the piece after the military parade.

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MUELLER, Ellen. Walking as artistic practice. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023.

APA style reference

Natan, E. (1973). Head Sculpture. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/head-sculpture/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

apostlahästar

Swedish word for feet. Translated it means “horses of the apostles” referring to the apostles traveling on foot.

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