Horizontal Rain
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- Horizontal Rain
- 1975
- b&w photograph
- 40,5 × 50,7 cm
The performance "Horizontal Rain" or "Horizontal Seed" is the second element of a complex performative structure entitled "Gradually Going Tornado." Staged for the first time in 1971 at the Edinburgh Festival, Horizontal Rain was described by Neagu as human “communication on a horizontal level,” suggesting the horizontal representation of an interconnected social structure. At the center of his performative ritual he placed the Subject-Generator, a prototype-Hyphen, integrated into the action. The artist wore an “anthropocosmos man suit” with numerous small, transparent pockets, moving on roller-skates towards a big wall against which he threw walnuts from a white bag (a metaphor for horizontal rain). If a walnut cracked, the artist would marked a Yes with charcoal on the wall, and when it didn’t, he marked a No. Yes-No determined the construction of a grid in which the hyphen became the symbolic anchor between people. A.Se.