Photographs by Yasuhiro Yoshioka
John Cage’s Music Walk 1958, 9 October 1962, printed 2024
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Performed by John Cage, David Tudor, Yoko Ono and Toshirō Mayuzumi (left to right) at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Sogetsu Contemporary Series 17: John Cage and David Tudor, 9–10 October 1962, printed 2024
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Yoko Ono (foreground), John Cage, Yūji Takahashi, Toshi Ichiyanagi and unidentified (left to right) performing at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Sogetsu Contemporary Series 18: John Cage and David Tudor, 12 October 1962, printed 2024
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Yoko Ono performing at Kyoto Kaikan Second Hall - John Cage, Yoko Ono, David Tudor and Kenji Kobayashi (left to right), October 1962, printed 2024
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
From the exhibition
Yoko Ono Music of the Mind
(February – September 2024)
Yoko Ono is a trailblazer of early conceptual and participatory art, film and performance, a celebrated musician, and a formidable campaigner for world peace. Developing her practice in the United States, Japan and the UK, ideas are central to her art, often expressed in poetic, humorous, profound and radical ways.
Spanning more than seven decades, YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND is the UK’s largest exhibition celebrating key moments in Ono’s groundbreaking, influential and multidisciplinary career, from the mid-1950s to now – including her years in London where she met her future husband and longtime collaborator John Lennon.
The show traces the development of her practice and explores some of Ono’s most talked about and powerful artworks and performances. This includes Cut Piece (1964), where people were invited to cut off her clothing, to her banned Film No.4 (Bottoms) (1966-67) which she created as a ‘petition for peace’. Visitors are invited to take part in both simple acts of the imagination and active encounters with Ono’s works, such as Wish Trees for London, where visitors can contribute personal wishes for peace.
Audiences will discover over 200 works including instruction pieces, scores, installations, films, music and photography. The exhibition reveals a groundbreaking approach to language, art and participation that continues to speak to the present moment.
[*Tate Modern]
Taken in the Tate Modern
Photographs by Yasuhiro Yoshioka
John Cage’s Music Walk 1958, 9 October 1962, printed 2024
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Performed by John Cage, David Tudor, Yoko Ono and Toshirō Mayuzumi (left to right) at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Sogetsu Contemporary Series 17: John Cage and David Tudor, 9–10 October 1962, printed 2024
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Yoko Ono (foreground), John Cage, Yūji Takahashi, Toshi Ichiyanagi and unidentified (left to right) performing at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Sogetsu Contemporary Series 18: John Cage and David Tudor, 12 October 1962, printed 2024
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Yoko Ono performing at Kyoto Kaikan Second Hall - John Cage, Yoko Ono, David Tudor and Kenji Kobayashi (left to right), October 1962, printed 2024
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
From the exhibition
Yoko Ono Music of the Mind
(February – September 2024)
Yoko Ono is a trailblazer of early conceptual and participatory art, film and performance, a celebrated musician, and a formidable campaigner for world peace. Developing her practice in the United States, Japan and the UK, ideas are central to her art, often expressed in poetic, humorous, profound and radical ways.
Spanning more than seven decades, YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND is the UK’s largest exhibition celebrating key moments in Ono’s groundbreaking, influential and multidisciplinary career, from the mid-1950s to now – including her years in London where she met her future husband and longtime collaborator John Lennon.
The show traces the development of her practice and explores some of Ono’s most talked about and powerful artworks and performances. This includes Cut Piece (1964), where people were invited to cut off her clothing, to her banned Film No.4 (Bottoms) (1966-67) which she created as a ‘petition for peace’. Visitors are invited to take part in both simple acts of the imagination and active encounters with Ono’s works, such as Wish Trees for London, where visitors can contribute personal wishes for peace.
Audiences will discover over 200 works including instruction pieces, scores, installations, films, music and photography. The exhibition reveals a groundbreaking approach to language, art and participation that continues to speak to the present moment.
[*Tate Modern]
Taken in the Tate Modern