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WAR IS OVER! photomural frieze (includes the following eight billboard and poster images):
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
billboard and poster installation: Berlin
photo mural on paper (detail)
WAR IS OVER!, 1970
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster action performed by Richie Yorke
and Ronnie Hawkins: Hong Kong/China
photo mural on paper (detail)
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
billboard and poster installation: Toronto
photo mural on paper (detail)
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
billboard and poster installation: London
photo mural on paper (detail)
photo by Hulton-Deutsch
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
demonstration and poster action: Tokyo
photo mural on paper (detail)
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
billboard and poster installation: New York
photo mural on paper (detail)
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster: English Love and Peace version
offset poster
30 x 20 inches
"Radio Peace Network: WAR IS OVER!" (1970)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
advertisement in Billboard magazine,
24 January 1970
14 1/2 x 10 1/2 24 inches (overall page)
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster: English Xmas Version
offset poster
21 x 13 1/2 inches
"Radio Peace" (1970)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
jingle produced for radio broadcast (audio)
from: Marcello Villella, Let's Have a Dream: omaggio a John Lennon (Rome: Assessorate alla cultura, 1990)
29 seconds
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by [Yoko Ono and John Lennon with]
Tadanori Yokoo
poster: Tokyo
authorized reproduction
20 x 13 1/2 inches
"LA GUERRE EST FINIE!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster: Paris
offset poster
46 x 30 inches
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
postcard: English
offset postcard
8 x 6 inches
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
work placed as advertisement in the New York Times
(21 December 1969); E16
authorized reproduction
18 x 24 inches
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster: Berlin
offset poster
authorized reproduction
40 x 36 inches
"HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER!)" 1971
by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
45 RPM record on green vinyl with custom label and picture sleeve
7 inches diameter
" IMAGINE PEACE
Yoko Ono, among the earliest of artists working in the genre known
Conceptual Arts, has consistently employed the theme of peace
and used the medium of advertising in her work since the early 1960s.
Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
explores these aspects of her work over the course of more than
forty years.
Three recent pieces - Imagine Peace (Map) (2003/2007); Onochord
(2003/2007); and Imagine Peace Tower (2006/2007) - offer gallery
visitors to an opportunity to participate individually and collectively
with the artist in the realization of work. Consider the world with
fresh eyes as you stamp the phrase "Imagine Peace" on the location
of your choice on maps provided for this purpose. Using postcards
provided send your wishes to the Imagine Peace
Tower in Reykjavik, where they will shine on with eternally more than
900,000 others. Or beam the message "I Love You" to one and all
using the Onochord flashlights. Take a flashlight and an Imagine
Peace button, the artist's gift to you, and carry the message out into the
world. As Ono has often observed, "the dream you dream alone is
just the dream, but the dream we dream together is reality."
The exhibition continues in nine locations with Imagine
Peace/Imaginate La Paz billboards across the San Antonio region.
YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace is made
possible by the generosity by Bjom's Audio Video-Home Theater, Colleen
Casey and Tim Maloney, Clear Channel Outdoor, Rick Liberto, Smothers
Foundation, and Twin Sisters Bakery & Cafe. "
" John & Yoko's Year of Peace (1969 - 70)
Ono's Imagine Peace project carries conceptual and formal
strategies the artist had employer from the earliest years of her
career, not only in her seminal solo works, but in her collaborations
with John Lennon. In 1965, she created works specifically for the
advertising pages of The New York Arts Calendar. Picking up from
her Instructions for Paintings, a 1962 exhibition at Tokyo's Sogetsu Art
Center in which she exhibited written texts on the gallery walls
designed to inspire viewers to create the described images in their
minds, Ono created purely conceptual exhibitions with her
Is Real Gallery works.
The theme of peace is also evident in works sush as White Chess Set,
recreated here as Play It By Trust (Garden Set version) (1966/2007).
Lennon's songwriting during this period had shifted from more
conventional themes of romantic love to grander anthems for the
Flower Power generation. The Baetles' worldwide satellite broadcast
of Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" in the summer of 1967 featured a
parade of signs with the word "love" in multiple languages.
The couple's most famous collaborative works, the Bed-Ins (1969)
and the War Is Over! campaign (1969 - 1970), were conceived as
elements of a large peace advertising campaign. The Bed-Ins took
advantage of the inordinate amount of press attention the couple
received by inviting the world press to their honeymoon suite where
they talked about peace! Ono told Penthouse magazine's Charles
Childs: "Many other people who are rich are using their money for
something they want. They promote soap, use advertising
propaganda, what have you. We intend to do the same."
In December of 1969, they launched their War Is Over! campaign, a
project that included billboards and posters in 11 cities of the world
simply declaring "War Is Over! If You Want It. Happy Christmas from
John & Yoko." As with Ono's earliest instruction pieces, viewers were
invited to transform their dreams into reality. Ono has explained,
"All my work is a form of wishing." "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
"IMAGINE PEACE (Maps)" (2003/2007)
by Yoko Ono
maps, rubber stamps, badges
maps: variable dimensions
rubber stamps: 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 7/8 inches
badges: 1 3/8 inches diameter
Private collection of Mikihiko Hori
" IMAGINE PEACE
Yoko Ono, among the earliest of artists working in the genre known
Conceptual Arts, has consistently employed the theme of peace
and used the medium of advertising in her work since the early 1960s.
Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
explores these aspects of her work over the course of more than
forty years.
Three recent pieces - Imagine Peace (Map) (2003/2007); Onochord
(2003/2007); and Imagine Peace Tower (2006/2007) - offer gallery
visitors to an opportunity to participate individually and collectively
with the artist in the realization of work. Consider the world with
fresh eyes as you stamp the phrase "Imagine Peace" on the location
of your choice on maps provided for this purpose. Using postcards
provided send your wishes to the Imagine Peace
Tower in Reykjavik, where they will shine on with eternally more than
900,000 others. Or beam the message "I Love You" to one and all
using the Onochord flashlights. Take a flashlight and an Imagine
Peace button, the artist's gift to you, and carry the message out into the
world. As Ono has often observed, "the dream you dream alone is
just the dream, but the dream we dream together is reality."
The exhibition continues in nine locations with Imagine
Peace/Imaginate La Paz billboards across the San Antonio region.
YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace is made
possible by the generosity by Bjom's Audio Video-Home Theater, Colleen
Casey and Tim Maloney, Clear Channel Outdoor, Rick Liberto, Smothers
Foundation, and Twin Sisters Bakery & Cafe. "
" John & Yoko's Year of Peace (1969 - 70)
Ono's Imagine Peace project carries conceptual and formal
strategies the artist had employer from the earliest years of her
career, not only in her seminal solo works, but in her collaborations
with John Lennon. In 1965, she created works specifically for the
advertising pages of The New York Arts Calendar. Picking up from
her Instructions for Paintings, a 1962 exhibition at Tokyo's Sogetsu Art
Center in which she exhibited written texts on the gallery walls
designed to inspire viewers to create the described images in their
minds, Ono created purely conceptual exhibitions with her
Is Real Gallery works.
The theme of peace is also evident in works sush as White Chess Set,
recreated here as Play It By Trust (Garden Set version) (1966/2007).
Lennon's songwriting during this period had shifted from more
conventional themes of romantic love to grander anthems for the
Flower Power generation. The Baetles' worldwide satellite broadcast
of Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" in the summer of 1967 featured a
parade of signs with the word "love" in multiple languages.
The couple's most famous collaborative works, the Bed-Ins (1969)
and the War Is Over! campaign (1969 - 1970), were conceived as
elements of a large peace advertising campaign. The Bed-Ins took
advantage of the inordinate amount of press attention the couple
received by inviting the world press to their honeymoon suite where
they talked about peace! Ono told Penthouse magazine's Charles
Childs: "Many other people who are rich are using their money for
something they want. They promote soap, use advertising
propaganda, what have you. We intend to do the same."
In December of 1969, they launched their War Is Over! campaign, a
project that included billboards and posters in 11 cities of the world
simply declaring "War Is Over! If You Want It. Happy Christmas from
John & Yoko." As with Ono's earliest instruction pieces, viewers were
invited to transform their dreams into reality. Ono has explained,
"All my work is a form of wishing." "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Download, print & display these posters in your window, school, workplace, car and elsewhere.
Post them on your Social Media feeds.
Send them as postcards to your friends.
We say it in so many ways, but we are one.
I love you!
Yoko Ono Lennon
1 December 2015
kids peeping at Yoko Ono / gamins matant Yoko Ono
Biennale de Lyon 2013. La Sucrière, Confluence.
50mm. f/1.4. iso600. 1/60
Print & display in your window, school, workplace, car & elsewhere over the holiday season, and send as postcards to your friends.
If you don't see your language here, then send us your translation of
WAR IS OVER!
IF YOU WANT IT
Happy Christmas from John & Yoko
so we can make a poster for your language.
Also, if we've made an error or omission, please also contact: admin@IMAGINEPEACE.com. Thankyou!
CHARLES TASHIRO
"VIDEO HAIKU #5, LUNCH" (2006)
DV ANAMORPHIC 720X480 PIXELS (854X480)
MICHAEL GEORGETTI
"Cast" (2010)
APPLE, ARROWS, DIMENSION VARIABLE
ANDREW ERDOS
"A Video of the Person Who Robbed me at Gun Point for my Apple Laptop" 2009 - 2010
VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE
YOKO ONO
"APPLE" 1966
APPLE, PLEXIGLASS WITH BRASS PLAQUE, 36" X 10" X 10" (92CM X 25CM X 25CM)
Any reproduction of the work in any manner must be approved.
ROB MCKENZIE & KAIN PICKEN
"Integrated World Capitalism" (2010)
STICKER ON BOARD, 12' X 12' (30CM X 30CM)
JON CAMPBELL
"Granny Smith" (2010)
ENAMEL PAINT ON LINEN, 12" X 12" (30CM X 39CM)
IMAGING THE APPLE
AC INSTITUTE [DIRECT CHAPEL]
547 W27th St. 5th and 6th floors
New York 10001
New York
Curated by:
JOHN R. NEESON
ELIZABETH GOWER
Exhibition dates:
MARCH 25 - MAY 1, 2010
imagingtheapple.com/pages/pressrelease1
IMAGING THE APPLE
PRESS RELEASE
Forty-eight artists have been invited to exhibit responses to IMAGING THE APPLE.
The exhibition is scheduled from March 25 to May 1, 2010 at AC Institute [Direct Chapel] 547 West 27th Street, 5th & 6th floors, New York. www.artcurrents.org
IMAGING THE APPLE is a development of a successful show that toured the Eastern states of Australia in 2004 . 2005. The original exhibition was organized by artist/curator John R. Neeson who is co-curating the New York version with Elizabeth Gower also a Melbourne based artist/curator.
The New York show includes Artists from Stockholm, Beijing, Pittsburg, New York, Toledo, Hollywood, Auckland, Plymouth, Melbourne and Sydney; and in the case of Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda from an area in Central Australia as geographically remote from New York City as it's possible to get.
The Artists represent a cross generational group, with established and well known Artists such as Yoko Ono and Billy Apple, exhibiting alongside mid-career and emerging Artists, using a diverse range of media including text, photography, installation, video, sound and painting.
The conceptual basis for IMAGING THE APPLE references Paul Cézanne's ambition to 'astound Paris with the painting of a single apple'.
The apple has been a significant and reoccurring emblem in factual stories, legends and myths throughout western history.
Never actually identified as the guilty 'fruit of temptation' in the Garden of Eden, an apple nevertheless has been universally represented as the culprit for twenty centuries.
The 'apple' features in the Judgment of Paris from Ancient Greece; in the various legends of William Tell and Snow White and the poison apple from central Europe, in Isaac Newton's revelation on gravity from England, in the origin of the Granny Smith apple from Australia, and from America, Johnny Apple seed.
There is also considerable mythology surrounding why New York City became known as the .big apple.. One story is, that in the jargon of US jazz musicians a gig was an .apple. and a gig in New York City, the big apple. A second tale. dating from the 19th Century concerns a high-class bordello, run by Eve, who had the best .apples. in town.
In colloquial Australian "she'll be apples" translates, as "it will be fine" while 'an Apple a day keeps the doctor away', 'an apple for the teacher' and 'the apple of my eye' are epithets common in the English-speaking world that associates the apple with health and goodness.
Finally 'apple' has become an enduring contemporary icon associated with the legendary Beatles company, the personal computers and ipod.
All these associations resonate in various degrees of intensity through the forty-eight responses in IMAGING THE APPLE.
IMAGING THE APPLE is accompanied by a catalogue, documenting the works, and including a project essay by John R.Neeson. It is published by AC Institute and distributed by Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
IMAGING THE APPLE has received a grant through the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund from the Australian American Association and in-kind sponsorship from Chapman & Bailey, an Australian based Art materials company.
Artists presenting responses: -
Billy Apple, Peter Burke, Jon Campbell, Ross Coulter, Holly Crawford, Penelope Davis, Kate Daw, Kim Donaldson, Janenne Eaton, Steve Ellis, Andrew Erdos, Juan Ford, Sue Ford, Clark V. Fox, Timothy Gaewsky, Martin Gantman, Michael Georgetti, Elizabeth Gower, Denise Green, Hao Guo & Thea Rechner, Jayne Holsinger, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Kate Just, Larry Kagan, Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda, Sardi Klein, Richard Kostelanetz, Kevin Laverty, Deven Marriner, Ben Matthews, Rob McKenzie & Kain Picken, My Dog Sighs, John R. Neeson, Yoko Ono, Mary Lou Pavlovic, Amy Pivak, Paul Ross, Andreas Söderberg, Spoonbill, Charles Tashiro, Brie Trenerry, Nico Vassilakis, Dan Waber, Cara Wood-Ginder, Max Yawney, Anne Zahalka.
Contact:
theappleprojects@gmail.com
info@artcurrents.com
A CRYSTAL BALL
by Yoko Ono
A family: father, mother and a young son lived in a hut at the
bottom of a steep mountain. A group of armed men, one night,
paid a sudden visit to them. A guy with a large pipe in his
mouth pointed to the little boy who was still playing in the
front yard and said "Let's take that boy with us". The couple
begged for mercy.
The Pipe squinted his eyes for a moment. "Okay, here's a bomb.
If the boy carries it up the mountain without exploding, he's
free".
The parents were devastated. The father took the mother to the
side and whispered, "Let's put up a fight and die together".
Mother was silent for a while. It seemed like a long time.
"Give me one more chance," she said quietly. She then asked the
Pipe if she could just follow her boy from behind. "I just want
to be there for him". "Hey, that's double or nothing". The Pipe
turned to his men. Numbers were thrown back and forth amongst
them for a while, clearly to change their bets.
The mother took the bomb from the Pipe's hand and went out to
her son in the yard. "Baby," she said in a hushed voice, "I
love you. I know you love Mommy and Daddy". The boy nodded.
"Listen very carefully now. Here's something that means a lot
to our family. Take this up the mountain and when you get to
the top, put it down very carefully on the ground. Remember,
this is something very delicate, so you don't want to drop it.
Be extra careful when you put it down on the ground. Even a
little shake might cause some harm".
The boy nodded again, took the bomb in his small hands and
started to walk up the narrow passage alongside the mountain.
It was a very long night.
He finally reached the top and placed the bomb on the ground.
The mother rushed to him and hugged his tiny body. "I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you had to go through this. But you did
it. You're alive. It's safe now. We're free! It was a bomb, you
know. A bomb!"
"Mommy, it's a crystal ball".
"No, no, baby. A crystal ball? How could you say such a thing?
It's a bomb. Look!" The woman pointed out to the bomb on the
ground. The sun was just rising from the back of the mountain.
"But Mommy, it IS crystal".
She took a second look at the round object.
In the morning light she saw that it was now a crystal ball.
'A Crystal Ball' was written because I wrote 'Surrender to
Peace'. When 'Surrender to Peace' came out in the papers, I
suddenly got tons of letters from one high school. I was
thinking, "What is this, what's happening at this high school?"
I found out they had a social science class where as a project
the teacher read 'Surrender to Peace' and the homework was to
write a letter to me about what they thought of that. So they
all wrote to me, and I thought I can't answer all these
letters, each one of them. Then, I was just sort of inspired to
write a story, and I wrote this story, and sent it to them
saying, "This is in reply to your letters". yoko
'A Crystal Ball' was first published in the liner notes of the
1984 album 'Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him'.
Artwork shown above:
POINTEDNESS YOKO ONO 1964
THIS SPHERE WILL BE A SHARP POINT WHEN IT GETS
TO THE FAR CORNERS OF THE ROOM IN YOUR MIND
Crystal sphere on Plexiglass pedestal
Photo by John Bigelow Taylor
©2002 Yoko Ono
-- Page 2 - 3
art and artists
Volume Two Number Seven December 1967
EDITED BY MARIO AMAYA
ASSISTANT EDITOR - ANTHONY LIVESEY
PARIS EDITOR - OTTO HAHN
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FEATURES
Games Without Rules Nicholas Calas 13
Talking Games Otto Halm
Grégoire Müller 14
London Winter Orgasm Game Yoko Ono 18
Surrealism at Play Simon Watson Tylor 20
The King of the Wild Beasts: Henri Matisse Ralph Pomeroy 24
The Moebius Trip Patrick Hughes 26
Name of the Game Christopher Finch 28
Colour In Patrick Procktor David Hockney 30
Quatschikon Laurence Whitfield 32
Scrap-heap Samaritan Palma Bucarelli 34
Early Renaissance Michael Levey 38
Picasso's Vollard Suite Hans Bollinger 46
REVIEWS
Briefly 4
Private View Kensington Davison 6
Art Politic: Jamming on the Brakes Anthoney Livessey 8
Letters Yoko Ono 10
London: The Extinct Eye or U.F.O. Eddie Wolfram 42
New York: Prost and Hope Mario Amaya 50
Paris: The object Game Grégoire Müller 52
Books Simon Watson Taylor 54
Kenneth Coutts-Smith 56
Anthony Livesey
Switched On E. Tam 57
Gallery Guide 58
COVER Specially designed for Art and Artists by Laurence Whitfield
CONTRIBUTORS:
RALPH POMEROY is a painter as well as a writer, and has ad exhibitions of
his work in Denmark, Belgium and San Francisco. His poems have appeared in
the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Poetry, Bottegh Oscure, Paris Review, New
Statesman, The Times Library Supplement, The Observer, Transatlantic Review,
etc. He has published two books of poems, and a third, In the Financial Districts,
is soon to be brought out by Macmillian. At present, he lives in New York and is
on the editorial staff of Art News.
PATRICK HUGHES was born in 1939, and lives in Leeds. His first one-man
exhibition was held at the Portal Gallery in London in 1961. He was shown
again at the Portal in 1963, then at the Hanover Gallery in 1965. He is a lecturer
and has also written on his own work for Studio Interview. He has done
some designing for The Observer and the Egg Market Board, and illustrations
for two books.
LAURENCE WHITFIELD was born in Manchester in 1938. He served an
apprenticeship as a joiner, and then won a scholarship to the Slade School of
Art in 1960. He later went to France, where he lived for about two years
(1962 - 64) supporting himself by making coffins for the local funeral parlour.
Since returning to England, he has made his studio an abandoned school-house
in Cotswold. His work has been seen at the Young Contemporaries Shows
(1961 and 1962); at the Paris Biennale (1963); at the Marlborough New London
Gallery and at the Premio Internationale Biellaper Incissione in Italy. His most
recent show was at the I.C.A. Galleries.
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Volume Two, Number Nine
December 1967
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Private Collection of Mikihiko Hori
Photo from 'JOHN & YOKO: A New York Love Story' by Allan Tannenbaum
Publisher: Insight Editions (October 9, 2007)
Photo by & © Allan Tannenbaum.
ROB MCKENZIE & KAIN PICKEN
"Integrated World Capitalism" (2010)
STICKER ON BOARD, 12' X 12' (30CM X 30CM)
YOKO ONO
"APPLE" 1966
APPLE, PLEXIGLASS WITH BRASS PLAQUE, 36" X 10" X 10" (92CM X 25CM X 25CM)
Any reproduction of the work in any manner must be approved.
JON CAMPBELL
"Granny Smith"(2010)
ENAMEL PAINT ON LINEN, 12" X 12" (30CM X 39CM)
IMAGING THE APPLE
AC INSTITUTE [DIRECT CHAPEL]
547 W27th St. 5th and 6th floors
New York 10001
New York
Curated by:
JOHN R. NEESON
ELIZABETH GOWER
Exhibition dates:
MARCH 25 - MAY 1, 2010
imagingtheapple.com/pages/pressrelease1
IMAGING THE APPLE
PRESS RELEASE
Forty-eight artists have been invited to exhibit responses to IMAGING THE APPLE.
The exhibition is scheduled from March 25 to May 1, 2010 at AC Institute [Direct Chapel] 547 West 27th Street, 5th & 6th floors, New York. www.artcurrents.org
IMAGING THE APPLE is a development of a successful show that toured the Eastern states of Australia in 2004 . 2005. The original exhibition was organized by artist/curator John R. Neeson who is co-curating the New York version with Elizabeth Gower also a Melbourne based artist/curator.
The New York show includes Artists from Stockholm, Beijing, Pittsburg, New York, Toledo, Hollywood, Auckland, Plymouth, Melbourne and Sydney; and in the case of Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda from an area in Central Australia as geographically remote from New York City as it's possible to get.
The Artists represent a cross generational group, with established and well known Artists such as Yoko Ono and Billy Apple, exhibiting alongside mid-career and emerging Artists, using a diverse range of media including text, photography, installation, video, sound and painting.
The conceptual basis for IMAGING THE APPLE references Paul Cézanne's ambition to 'astound Paris with the painting of a single apple'.
The apple has been a significant and reoccurring emblem in factual stories, legends and myths throughout western history.
Never actually identified as the guilty 'fruit of temptation' in the Garden of Eden, an apple nevertheless has been universally represented as the culprit for twenty centuries.
The 'apple' features in the Judgment of Paris from Ancient Greece; in the various legends of William Tell and Snow White and the poison apple from central Europe, in Isaac Newton's revelation on gravity from England, in the origin of the Granny Smith apple from Australia, and from America, Johnny Apple seed.
There is also considerable mythology surrounding why New York City became known as the .big apple.. One story is, that in the jargon of US jazz musicians a gig was an .apple. and a gig in New York City, the big apple. A second tale. dating from the 19th Century concerns a high-class bordello, run by Eve, who had the best .apples. in town.
In colloquial Australian "she'll be apples" translates, as "it will be fine" while 'an Apple a day keeps the doctor away', 'an apple for the teacher' and 'the apple of my eye' are epithets common in the English-speaking world that associates the apple with health and goodness.
Finally 'apple' has become an enduring contemporary icon associated with the legendary Beatles company, the personal computers and ipod.
All these associations resonate in various degrees of intensity through the forty-eight responses in IMAGING THE APPLE.
IMAGING THE APPLE is accompanied by a catalogue, documenting the works, and including a project essay by John R.Neeson. It is published by AC Institute and distributed by Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
IMAGING THE APPLE has received a grant through the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund from the Australian American Association and in-kind sponsorship from Chapman & Bailey, an Australian based Art materials company.
Artists presenting responses: -
Billy Apple, Peter Burke, Jon Campbell, Ross Coulter, Holly Crawford, Penelope Davis, Kate Daw, Kim Donaldson, Janenne Eaton, Steve Ellis, Andrew Erdos, Juan Ford, Sue Ford, Clark V. Fox, Timothy Gaewsky, Martin Gantman, Michael Georgetti, Elizabeth Gower, Denise Green, Hao Guo & Thea Rechner, Jayne Holsinger, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Kate Just, Larry Kagan, Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda, Sardi Klein, Richard Kostelanetz, Kevin Laverty, Deven Marriner, Ben Matthews, Rob McKenzie & Kain Picken, My Dog Sighs, John R. Neeson, Yoko Ono, Mary Lou Pavlovic, Amy Pivak, Paul Ross, Andreas Söderberg, Spoonbill, Charles Tashiro, Brie Trenerry, Nico Vassilakis, Dan Waber, Cara Wood-Ginder, Max Yawney, Anne Zahalka.
Contact:
theappleprojects@gmail.com
info@artcurrents.com
WAR IS OVER! photomural frieze (includes the following eight billboard and poster images):
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
billboard and poster installation: Berlin
photo mural on paper (detail)
WAR IS OVER!, 1970
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster action performed by Richie Yorke
and Ronnie Hawkins: Hong Kong/China
photo mural on paper (detail)
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
billboard and poster installation: Toronto
photo mural on paper (detail)
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
billboard and poster installation: London
photo mural on paper (detail)
photo by Hulton-Deutsch
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
demonstration and poster action: Tokyo
photo mural on paper (detail)
WAR IS OVER!, 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
billboard and poster installation: New York
photo mural on paper (detail)
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster: English Love and Peace version
offset poster
30 x 20 inches
"Radio Peace Network: WAR IS OVER!" (1970)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
advertisement in Billboard magazine,
24 January 1970
14 1/2 x 10 1/2 24 inches (overall page)
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster: English Xmas Version
offset poster
21 x 13 1/2 inches
"Radio Peace" (1970)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
jingle produced for radio broadcast (audio)
from: Marcello Villella, Let's Have a Dream: omaggio a John Lennon (Rome: Assessorate alla cultura, 1990)
29 seconds
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by [Yoko Ono and John Lennon with]
Tadanori Yokoo
poster: Tokyo
authorized reproduction
20 x 13 1/2 inches
"LA GUERRE EST FINIE!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster: Paris
offset poster
46 x 30 inches
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
postcard: English
offset postcard
8 x 6 inches
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
work placed as advertisement in the New York Times
(21 December 1969); E16
authorized reproduction
18 x 24 inches
"WAR IS OVER!" (1969)
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
poster: Berlin
offset poster
authorized reproduction
40 x 36 inches
"HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER!)" 1971
by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
45 RPM record on green vinyl with custom label and picture sleeve
7 inches diameter
" IMAGINE PEACE
Yoko Ono, among the earliest of artists working in the genre known
Conceptual Arts, has consistently employed the theme of peace
and used the medium of advertising in her work since the early 1960s.
Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
explores these aspects of her work over the course of more than
forty years.
Three recent pieces - Imagine Peace (Map) (2003/2007); Onochord
(2003/2007); and Imagine Peace Tower (2006/2007) - offer gallery
visitors to an opportunity to participate individually and collectively
with the artist in the realization of work. Consider the world with
fresh eyes as you stamp the phrase "Imagine Peace" on the location
of your choice on maps provided for this purpose. Using postcards
provided send your wishes to the Imagine Peace
Tower in Reykjavik, where they will shine on with eternally more than
900,000 others. Or beam the message "I Love You" to one and all
using the Onochord flashlights. Take a flashlight and an Imagine
Peace button, the artist's gift to you, and carry the message out into the
world. As Ono has often observed, "the dream you dream alone is
just the dream, but the dream we dream together is reality."
The exhibition continues in nine locations with Imagine
Peace/Imaginate La Paz billboards across the San Antonio region.
YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace is made
possible by the generosity by Bjom's Audio Video-Home Theater, Colleen
Casey and Tim Maloney, Clear Channel Outdoor, Rick Liberto, Smothers
Foundation, and Twin Sisters Bakery & Cafe. "
" John & Yoko's Year of Peace (1969 - 70)
Ono's Imagine Peace project carries conceptual and formal
strategies the artist had employer from the earliest years of her
career, not only in her seminal solo works, but in her collaborations
with John Lennon. In 1965, she created works specifically for the
advertising pages of The New York Arts Calendar. Picking up from
her Instructions for Paintings, a 1962 exhibition at Tokyo's Sogetsu Art
Center in which she exhibited written texts on the gallery walls
designed to inspire viewers to create the described images in their
minds, Ono created purely conceptual exhibitions with her
Is Real Gallery works.
The theme of peace is also evident in works sush as White Chess Set,
recreated here as Play It By Trust (Garden Set version) (1966/2007).
Lennon's songwriting during this period had shifted from more
conventional themes of romantic love to grander anthems for the
Flower Power generation. The Baetles' worldwide satellite broadcast
of Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" in the summer of 1967 featured a
parade of signs with the word "love" in multiple languages.
The couple's most famous collaborative works, the Bed-Ins (1969)
and the War Is Over! campaign (1969 - 1970), were conceived as
elements of a large peace advertising campaign. The Bed-Ins took
advantage of the inordinate amount of press attention the couple
received by inviting the world press to their honeymoon suite where
they talked about peace! Ono told Penthouse magazine's Charles
Childs: "Many other people who are rich are using their money for
something they want. They promote soap, use advertising
propaganda, what have you. We intend to do the same."
In December of 1969, they launched their War Is Over! campaign, a
project that included billboards and posters in 11 cities of the world
simply declaring "War Is Over! If You Want It. Happy Christmas from
John & Yoko." As with Ono's earliest instruction pieces, viewers were
invited to transform their dreams into reality. Ono has explained,
"All my work is a form of wishing." "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
-- Page 3
art and artists
Volume Two Number Seven December 1967
EDITED BY MARIO AMAYA
ASSISTANT EDITOR - ANTHONY LIVESEY
PARIS EDITOR - OTTO HAHN
GERMAN EDITOR - JURGEN CLAUS
NEW YORK EDITOR - BRIAN O'DEHERTY
TOKYO EDITOR - YOSHIAKI TONE
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT - PATRICIA WHITE
DESIGN - GWYN LEWIS
EDITORIAL ADVISERS - KEINSINGTON DAVISON, SIMON WATSON TAYLOR, CHRISTPHER FINCH
FEATURES
Games Without Rules Nicholas Calas 13
Talking Games Otto Halm
Grégoire Müller 14
London Winter Orgasm Game Yoko Ono 18
Surrealism at Play Simon Watson Tylor 20
The King of the Wild Beasts: Henri Matisse Ralph Pomeroy 24
The Moebius Trip Patrick Hughes 26
Name of the Game Christopher Finch 28
Colour In Patrick Procktor David Hockney 30
Quatschikon Laurence Whitfield 32
Scrap-heap Samaritan Palma Bucarelli 34
Early Renaissance Michael Levey 38
Picasso's Vollard Suite Hans Bollinger 46
REVIEWS
Briefly 4
Private View Kensington Davison 6
Art Politic: Jamming on the Brakes Anthoney Livessey 8
Letters Yoko Ono 10
London: The Extinct Eye or U.F.O. Eddie Wolfram 42
New York: Prost and Hope Mario Amaya 50
Paris: The object Game Grégoire Müller 52
Books Simon Watson Taylor 54
Kenneth Coutts-Smith 56
Anthony Livesey
Switched On E. Tam 57
Gallery Guide 58
COVER Specially designed for Art and Artists by Laurence Whitfield
CONTRIBUTORS:
RALPH POMEROY is a painter as well as a writer, and has ad exhibitions of
his work in Denmark, Belgium and San Francisco. His poems have appeared in
the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Poetry, Bottegh Oscure, Paris Review, New
Statesman, The Times Library Supplement, The Observer, Transatlantic Review,
etc. He has published two books of poems, and a third, In the Financial Districts,
is soon to be brought out by Macmillian. At present, he lives in New York and is
on the editorial staff of Art News.
PATRICK HUGHES was born in 1939, and lives in Leeds. His first one-man
exhibition was held at the Portal Gallery in London in 1961. He was shown
again at the Portal in 1963, then at the Hanover Gallery in 1965. He is a lecturer
and has also written on his own work for Studio Interview. He has done
some designing for The Observer and the Egg Market Board, and illustrations
for two books.
LAURENCE WHITFIELD was born in Manchester in 1938. He served an
apprenticeship as a joiner, and then won a scholarship to the Slade School of
Art in 1960. He later went to France, where he lived for about two years
(1962 - 64) supporting himself by making coffins for the local funeral parlour.
Since returning to England, he has made his studio an abandoned school-house
in Cotswold. His work has been seen at the Young Contemporaries Shows
(1961 and 1962); at the Paris Biennale (1963); at the Marlborough New London
Gallery and at the Premio Internationale Biellaper Incissione in Italy. His most
recent show was at the I.C.A. Galleries.
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December 1967
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1 December 2015
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1 December 2015
YOKO ONO
"APPLE" 1966
APPLE, PLEXIGLASS WITH BRASS PLAQUE, 36" X 10" X 10" (92CM X 25CM X 25CM)
Any reproduction of the work in any manner must be approved.
ANDREW ERDOS
"A Video of the Person Who Robbed me at Gun Point for my Apple Laptop" 2009 - 2010
VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE
ROB MCKENZIE & KAIN PICKEN
"Integrated World Capitalism" (2010)
STICKER ON BOARD, 12' X 12' (30CM X 30CM)
JON CAMPBELL
"Granny Smith" (2010)
ENAMEL PAINT ON LINEN, 12" X 12" (30CM X 39CM)
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ
"Apple from the series in progress OUROBOROS" (2010)
PAPER, GLASS JAR.
GUO HAO & THEA RECHNER
"Apple Aiming" (2010)
VIDEO AND INSTALLATION
IMAGING THE APPLE
AC INSTITUTE [DIRECT CHAPEL]
547 W27th St. 5th and 6th floors
New York 10001
New York
Curated by:
JOHN R. NEESON
ELIZABETH GOWER
Exhibition dates:
MARCH 25 - MAY 1, 2010
imagingtheapple.com/pages/pressrelease1
IMAGING THE APPLE
PRESS RELEASE
Forty-eight artists have been invited to exhibit responses to IMAGING THE APPLE.
The exhibition is scheduled from March 25 to May 1, 2010 at AC Institute [Direct Chapel] 547 West 27th Street, 5th & 6th floors, New York. www.artcurrents.org
IMAGING THE APPLE is a development of a successful show that toured the Eastern states of Australia in 2004 . 2005. The original exhibition was organized by artist/curator John R. Neeson who is co-curating the New York version with Elizabeth Gower also a Melbourne based artist/curator.
The New York show includes Artists from Stockholm, Beijing, Pittsburg, New York, Toledo, Hollywood, Auckland, Plymouth, Melbourne and Sydney; and in the case of Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda from an area in Central Australia as geographically remote from New York City as it's possible to get.
The Artists represent a cross generational group, with established and well known Artists such as Yoko Ono and Billy Apple, exhibiting alongside mid-career and emerging Artists, using a diverse range of media including text, photography, installation, video, sound and painting.
The conceptual basis for IMAGING THE APPLE references Paul Cézanne's ambition to 'astound Paris with the painting of a single apple'.
The apple has been a significant and reoccurring emblem in factual stories, legends and myths throughout western history.
Never actually identified as the guilty 'fruit of temptation' in the Garden of Eden, an apple nevertheless has been universally represented as the culprit for twenty centuries.
The 'apple' features in the Judgment of Paris from Ancient Greece; in the various legends of William Tell and Snow White and the poison apple from central Europe, in Isaac Newton's revelation on gravity from England, in the origin of the Granny Smith apple from Australia, and from America, Johnny Apple seed.
There is also considerable mythology surrounding why New York City became known as the .big apple.. One story is, that in the jargon of US jazz musicians a gig was an .apple. and a gig in New York City, the big apple. A second tale. dating from the 19th Century concerns a high-class bordello, run by Eve, who had the best .apples. in town.
In colloquial Australian "she'll be apples" translates, as "it will be fine" while 'an Apple a day keeps the doctor away', 'an apple for the teacher' and 'the apple of my eye' are epithets common in the English-speaking world that associates the apple with health and goodness.
Finally 'apple' has become an enduring contemporary icon associated with the legendary Beatles company, the personal computers and ipod.
All these associations resonate in various degrees of intensity through the forty-eight responses in IMAGING THE APPLE.
IMAGING THE APPLE is accompanied by a catalogue, documenting the works, and including a project essay by John R.Neeson. It is published by AC Institute and distributed by Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
IMAGING THE APPLE has received a grant through the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund from the Australian American Association and in-kind sponsorship from Chapman & Bailey, an Australian based Art materials company.
Artists presenting responses: -
Billy Apple, Peter Burke, Jon Campbell, Ross Coulter, Holly Crawford, Penelope Davis, Kate Daw, Kim Donaldson, Janenne Eaton, Steve Ellis, Andrew Erdos, Juan Ford, Sue Ford, Clark V. Fox, Timothy Gaewsky, Martin Gantman, Michael Georgetti, Elizabeth Gower, Denise Green, Hao Guo & Thea Rechner, Jayne Holsinger, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Kate Just, Larry Kagan, Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda, Sardi Klein, Richard Kostelanetz, Kevin Laverty, Deven Marriner, Ben Matthews, Rob McKenzie & Kain Picken, My Dog Sighs, John R. Neeson, Yoko Ono, Mary Lou Pavlovic, Amy Pivak, Paul Ross, Andreas Söderberg, Spoonbill, Charles Tashiro, Brie Trenerry, Nico Vassilakis, Dan Waber, Cara Wood-Ginder, Max Yawney, Anne Zahalka.
Contact:
theappleprojects@gmail.com
info@artcurrents.com
Yoko Ono (New York), Imagine Peace
Nuit Blanche 2008 (Zone C), Toronto
www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=C&m...
© Stephanie Fysh 2008; all rights reserved
(no images in comments, please)
"Honeymoon (Bag One portfolio)" 1970
by John Lennon
lithograph
30 x 35 inches framed
"IMAGINE PEACE
Yoko Ono, among the earliest of artists working in the genre known
Conceptual Arts, has consistently employed the theme of peace
and used the medium of advertising in her work since the early 1960s.
Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
explores these aspects of her work over the course of more than
forty years.
Three recent pieces - Imagine Peace (Map) (2003/2007); Onochord
(2003/2007); and Imagine Peace Tower (2006/2007) - offer gallery
visitors to an opportunity to participate individually and collectively
with the artist in the realization of work. Consider the world with
fresh eyes as you stamp the phrase "Imagine Peace" on the location
of your choice on maps provided for this purpose. Using postcards
provided send your wishes to the Imagine Peace
Tower in Reykjavik, where they will shine on with eternally more than
900,000 others. Or beam the message "I Love You" to one and all
using the Onochord flashlights. Take a flashlight and an Imagine
Peace button, the artist's gift to you, and carry the message out into the
world. As Ono has often observed, "the dream you dream alone is
just the dream, but the dream we dream together is reality."
The exhibition continues in nine locations with Imagine
Peace/Imaginate La Paz billboards across the San Antonio region.
YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace is made
possible by the generosity by Bjom's Audio Video-Home Theater, Colleen
Casey and Tim Maloney, Clear Channel Outdoor, Rick Liberto, Smothers
Foundation, and Twin Sisters Bakery & Cafe. "
" John & Yoko's Year of Peace (1969 - 70)
Ono's Imagine Peace project carries conceptual and formal
strategies the artist had employer from the earliest years of her
career, not only in her seminal solo works, but in her collaborations
with John Lennon. In 1965, she created works specifically for the
advertising pages of The New York Arts Calendar. Picking up from
her Instructions for Paintings, a 1962 exhibition at Tokyo's Sogetsu Art
Center in which she exhibited written texts on the gallery walls
designed to inspire viewers to create the described images in their
minds, Ono created purely conceptual exhibitions with her
Is Real Gallery works.
The theme of peace is also evident in works sush as White Chess Set,
recreated here as Play It By Trust (Garden Set version) (1966/2007).
Lennon's songwriting during this period had shifted from more
conventional themes of romantic love to grander anthems for the
Flower Power generation. The Baetles' worldwide satellite broadcast
of Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" in the summer of 1967 featured a
parade of signs with the word "love" in multiple languages.
The couple's most famous collaborative works, the Bed-Ins (1969)
and the War Is Over! campaign (1969 - 1970), were conceived as
elements of a large peace advertising campaign. The Bed-Ins took
advantage of the inordinate amount of press attention the couple
received by inviting the world press to their honeymoon suite where
they talked about peace! Ono told Penthouse magazine's Charles
Childs: "Many other people who are rich are using their money for
something they want. They promote soap, use advertising
propaganda, what have you. We intend to do the same."
In December of 1969, they launched their War Is Over! campaign, a
project that included billboards and posters in 11 cities of the world
simply declaring "War Is Over! If You Want It. Happy Christmas from
John & Yoko." As with Ono's earliest instruction pieces, viewers were
invited to transform their dreams into reality. Ono has explained,
"All my work is a form of wishing." "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
The Event was called INTERVENTIONS - and part of this was a performance piece arranged by Yoko Ono at the Ernst Fuchs Museum, called 'REVEALING' - at which I was a willing participant. One by one, participants used scissors to snip fabric off the model. My comment to this was: I need larger scissors!
This photo is © by Jana Krippel - it was sent to me by the curator of the Museum.
It was a recreation of the 1964 performance 'Cut Piece'.
More about that event:
andreastischler.com/16378/Yoko+Ono.html
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I love you!
Yoko Ono Lennon
1 December 2015
" YOKO ONO
IMAGINE PEACE
Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
26 September - 28 October 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Opening Night / Wednesday 26 September 2007 / 5-9pm
Additional Events
"Yoko Ono: Imagining Peace, 1966-2007" / Lecture / Dr. Kevin Concannon
Wednesday 26 September, 6pm / Reception to follow
Recital Hall / Arts Building / UTSA 1604 campus
Dr. Kevin Concannon, Exhibition Curator and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Akron
The U.S. vs. John Lennon / Film / Monday 1 October, 6pm
Retama auditorium UC 2.02.02 / UTSA 1604 Campus
The U.S. vs. John Lennon / Film / Thursday 11 October, 7pm
Buena Vista Auditorium / UTSA Downtown Campus
Yoko Ono Cut Piece / performed by Ken Little / Friday 26 October, 7pm
Aula Canaria 1.328 Buena Vista Building / UTSA Downtown Campus
Gallery Hours / Monday - Friday 10-4pm / Saturday -Sunday 1-4pm
For more info / art.utsa.edu / 210.458.4391
Exhibition is free and open to public
This exhibition is organized by the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron
IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
Billboard Locations:
1 / Highway 78 ES 0.2mi. S/O Loop 1604 F/NE
2 / Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW
3 / Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE
4 / Austin highway ES 520ft. N/O Vandiver F/NE
5 / Rigsby NS 75ft. W/O Irwin F/W
6 / US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W
7 / Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E
8 / Military SW NS 300ft. W/O new Laredo Highway F/W
9 / Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S "
" IMAGINE PEACE
Yoko Ono, among the earliest of artists working in the genre known
Conceptual Arts, has consistently employed the theme of peace
and used the medium of advertising in her work since the early 1960s.
Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
explores these aspects of her work over the course of more than
forty years.
Three recent pieces - Imagine Peace (Map) (2003/2007); Onochord
(2003/2007); and Imagine Peace Tower (2006/2007) - offer gallery
visitors to an opportunity to participate individually and collectively
with the artist in the realization of work. Consider the world with
fresh eyes as you stamp the phrase "Imagine Peace" on the location
of your choice on maps provided for this purpose. Using postcards
provided send your wishes to the Imagine Peace
Tower in Reykjavik, where they will shine on with eternally more than
900,000 others. Or beam the message "I Love You" to one and all
using the Onochord flashlights. Take a flashlight and an Imagine
Peace button, the artist's gift to you, and carry the message out into the
world. As Ono has often observed, "the dream you dream alone is
just the dream, but the dream we dream together is reality."
The exhibition continues in nine locations with Imagine
Peace/Imaginate La Paz billboards across the San Antonio region.
YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace is made
possible by the generosity by Bjom's Audio Video-Home Theater, Colleen
Casey and Tim Maloney, Clear Channel Outdoor, Rick Liberto, Smothers
Foundation, and Twin Sisters Bakery & Cafe. "
" John & Yoko's Year of Peace (1969 - 70)
Ono's Imagine Peace project carries conceptual and formal
strategies the artist had employer from the earliest years of her
career, not only in her seminal solo works, but in her collaborations
with John Lennon. In 1965, she created works specifically for the
advertising pages of The New York Arts Calendar. Picking up from
her Instructions for Paintings, a 1962 exhibition at Tokyo's Sogetsu Art
Center in which she exhibited written texts on the gallery walls
designed to inspire viewers to create the described images in their
minds, Ono created purely conceptual exhibitions with her
Is Real Gallery works.
The theme of peace is also evident in works sush as White Chess Set,
recreated here as Play It By Trust (Garden Set version) (1966/2007).
Lennon's songwriting during this period had shifted from more
conventional themes of romantic love to grander anthems for the
Flower Power generation. The Baetles' worldwide satellite broadcast
of Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" in the summer of 1967 featured a
parade of signs with the word "love" in multiple languages.
The couple's most famous collaborative works, the Bed-Ins (1969)
and the War Is Over! campaign (1969 - 1970), were conceived as
elements of a large peace advertising campaign. The Bed-Ins took
advantage of the inordinate amount of press attention the couple
received by inviting the world press to their honeymoon suite where
they talked about peace! Ono told Penthouse magazine's Charles
Childs: "Many other people who are rich are using their money for
something they want. They promote soap, use advertising
propaganda, what have you. We intend to do the same."
In December of 1969, they launched their War Is Over! campaign, a
project that included billboards and posters in 11 cities of the world
simply declaring "War Is Over! If You Want It. Happy Christmas from
John & Yoko." As with Ono's earliest instruction pieces, viewers were
invited to transform their dreams into reality. Ono has explained,
"All my work is a form of wishing." "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
I told you about strawberry fields
You know the place where nothing is real
Well here's another place you can go
Where everything flows.
Looking through the bent backed tulips
To see how the other half live
Looking through a glass onion.
I told you about the walrus and me-man
You know that we're as close as can be-man
Well here's another clue for you all
The walrus was Paul.
Standing on the cast iron shore-yeah
Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet-yeah
Looking through a glass onion.
I told you about the fool on the hill
I tell you man he living there still
Well here's another place you can be
Listen to me.
Fixing a hole in the ocean
Trying to make a dove-tail joint-yeah
Looking through a glass onion.
'Glass Onion', The White Album
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Yoko Ono Lennon
1 December 2015
Yoko Ono, 1990, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Brandeis, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, sculpture
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1 December 2015
PUSSY RIOT SHOW TRIAL - SALEM
This collage is an adaptation of a work by Yoko Ono: FROM MY WINDOW -SALEM 1692
From her window overlooking the city of New York, and through time, the artist superimposes and merges portraits of herself in childhood and youth with the trial of a young woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692. Yoko Ono dedicate this work to the over five million pagan women doctors and intellectuals who, accused of being witches, were stoned, drowned, staked and burnt, to die in humiliation.
There is also a song she wrote that inspired this collage:
WOMAN OF SALEM
1692, six in the morning of June,
Sally Kegley, age thirty-four,
Closed her diary she'd kept for two scores.
Salem, Salem, witches must be hung.
Let my daughter burn my book,
Let her learn to sew and cook.
Teach her not to read but weave,
Ask her not to speak but weep.
Salem, Salem, witches must be hung.
Sally Kegley knows how to cure the ill,
Sally Kegley sees through us at will.
Salem, Salem, witches must be hung.
All the town's people rushing to the hill,
Their eyes shining, ready for the kill.
Sally's flesh bound to the cross,
Her eyes searching for the ones who are close.
Oh, why? oh, why? oh, why? oh, why?
Oh, why? why? why? why? why? why? why?
Help! help! help! help!
Help! help! help! help!
Must kill, must hang, must kill, must hang,
Must kill, must hang, must kill, must hang,
Must kill, must hang, must kill, must hang,
Must kill, must hang...
I did this collage after seeing the HBO documentary "PUSSY RIOT - A PUNK PRAYER". I thought there was a kind of relationship between those witches trials in Salem in 1692 and this "show trial" against Pussy Riot girls that was the first in a string of pseudo-legal proceedings meant to punish the opposition and teach the public a lesson. After Pussy Riot many opposition leaders have been prosecuted and many demonstrators against Putin's politics have been arrested.
SHOW TRIALS are the ones that exists only to justify punishment. They are a perfomance rather than a judgment. Luckily in the last politically motivated trials in Russia there have been plenty of loud, dissenting voices, both inside and outside the courtroom.
In the trial Pussy Riot's defendants were accused not only of blasphemy but of witchcraft; not only of insincerity but of demonic possession.
One witness testified: "Those who are possessed can exhibit different behaviors. They can scream, beat their heads against the floor, jump up and down..."
Another witness testified : "This was not a performance. It was witches' ritual... I do not accept their apology. It is insincere and intended for the court. A sincere apology would mean admitting responsibility for the schism, donning fetters and joining a convent."
There is a fact very little known about that performance Pussy Riot made in the cathedral:
The performance took place on the first day of Maslenitsa, once a carnival period during which mockery of church authorities and other forms of indecent behavior were permitted. By covering their faces and wearing motley costumes, Pussy Riot evoked the "skomorokhi", medieval jesters who sang, danced and spoke truth to power. The " skomorokhi" were often accused of being irreverent or even diabolical but they were tolerated for centuries. Maybe because they were men?
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War is over! (if you want it) updated for the Obama pulling out of Iraq era (leaving an embassy with 16,000 employees)
By Eddie Colla
The original
ROB MCKENZIE & KAIN PICKEN
"Integrated World Capitalism" (2010)
STICKER ON BOARD, 12' X 12' (30CM X 30CM)
YOKO ONO
"APPLE" 1966
APPLE, PLEXIGLASS WITH BRASS PLAQUE, 36" X 10" X 10" (92CM X 25CM X 25CM)
Any reproduction of the work in any manner must be approved.
IMAGING THE APPLE
AC INSTITUTE [DIRECT CHAPEL]
547 W27th St. 5th and 6th floors
New York 10001
New York
Curated by:
JOHN R. NEESON
ELIZABETH GOWER
Exhibition dates:
MARCH 25 - MAY 1, 2010
imagingtheapple.com/pages/pressrelease1
IMAGING THE APPLE
PRESS RELEASE
Forty-eight artists have been invited to exhibit responses to IMAGING THE APPLE.
The exhibition is scheduled from March 25 to May 1, 2010 at AC Institute [Direct Chapel] 547 West 27th Street, 5th & 6th floors, New York. www.artcurrents.org
IMAGING THE APPLE is a development of a successful show that toured the Eastern states of Australia in 2004 . 2005. The original exhibition was organized by artist/curator John R. Neeson who is co-curating the New York version with Elizabeth Gower also a Melbourne based artist/curator.
The New York show includes Artists from Stockholm, Beijing, Pittsburg, New York, Toledo, Hollywood, Auckland, Plymouth, Melbourne and Sydney; and in the case of Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda from an area in Central Australia as geographically remote from New York City as it's possible to get.
The Artists represent a cross generational group, with established and well known Artists such as Yoko Ono and Billy Apple, exhibiting alongside mid-career and emerging Artists, using a diverse range of media including text, photography, installation, video, sound and painting.
The conceptual basis for IMAGING THE APPLE references Paul Cézanne's ambition to 'astound Paris with the painting of a single apple'.
The apple has been a significant and reoccurring emblem in factual stories, legends and myths throughout western history.
Never actually identified as the guilty 'fruit of temptation' in the Garden of Eden, an apple nevertheless has been universally represented as the culprit for twenty centuries.
The 'apple' features in the Judgment of Paris from Ancient Greece; in the various legends of William Tell and Snow White and the poison apple from central Europe, in Isaac Newton's revelation on gravity from England, in the origin of the Granny Smith apple from Australia, and from America, Johnny Apple seed.
There is also considerable mythology surrounding why New York City became known as the .big apple.. One story is, that in the jargon of US jazz musicians a gig was an .apple. and a gig in New York City, the big apple. A second tale. dating from the 19th Century concerns a high-class bordello, run by Eve, who had the best .apples. in town.
In colloquial Australian "she'll be apples" translates, as "it will be fine" while 'an Apple a day keeps the doctor away', 'an apple for the teacher' and 'the apple of my eye' are epithets common in the English-speaking world that associates the apple with health and goodness.
Finally 'apple' has become an enduring contemporary icon associated with the legendary Beatles company, the personal computers and ipod.
All these associations resonate in various degrees of intensity through the forty-eight responses in IMAGING THE APPLE.
IMAGING THE APPLE is accompanied by a catalogue, documenting the works, and including a project essay by John R.Neeson. It is published by AC Institute and distributed by Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
IMAGING THE APPLE has received a grant through the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund from the Australian American Association and in-kind sponsorship from Chapman & Bailey, an Australian based Art materials company.
Artists presenting responses: -
Billy Apple, Peter Burke, Jon Campbell, Ross Coulter, Holly Crawford, Penelope Davis, Kate Daw, Kim Donaldson, Janenne Eaton, Steve Ellis, Andrew Erdos, Juan Ford, Sue Ford, Clark V. Fox, Timothy Gaewsky, Martin Gantman, Michael Georgetti, Elizabeth Gower, Denise Green, Hao Guo & Thea Rechner, Jayne Holsinger, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Kate Just, Larry Kagan, Billy Tjampijinpa Kenda, Sardi Klein, Richard Kostelanetz, Kevin Laverty, Deven Marriner, Ben Matthews, Rob McKenzie & Kain Picken, My Dog Sighs, John R. Neeson, Yoko Ono, Mary Lou Pavlovic, Amy Pivak, Paul Ross, Andreas Söderberg, Spoonbill, Charles Tashiro, Brie Trenerry, Nico Vassilakis, Dan Waber, Cara Wood-Ginder, Max Yawney, Anne Zahalka.
Contact:
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01. The GOASTT : The World Was Made For Men
02. Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band : Ask The Elephant!
03. If By Yes: You Feel Right
04. The GOASTT: Rainbow In Gasoline
05. If By Yes: You're Something Else
06. Sean Lennon: Hamlet's Theme
07. Kemp And Eden: Small Talk
08. Sean Lennon: Smoke & Mirrors
09. If By Yes: If By Yes
10. Kemp And Eden: Papership
11. Sean Lennon: Elsinore
12. Sean Lennon: Come Here Chimera
13. Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band: Calling
14. Sean Lennon : Freed
Featuring:
The Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger: Sean Lennon & Charlotte Muhl
If By Yes: Yuka Honda, Petra Haden, Yuko Araki & Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu
Kemp & Eden: Charlotte Muhl & Eden Rice
Sean Lennon
Yoko Ono Plastic ONO Band
Released on 21 January 2009
Available via Amazon Japan
www.amazon.co.jp/Chimera-Music-Release-Lennon-GOASTT/dp/B...
Chimera Music Website: www.chimeramusic.jp
Back Cover
The Art Guys with Todd Oldham
SUITS: The Clothes Make the Man, 1998-1999
Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Photo by Mark Seliger. Courtesy of the artists.
Agency: Art and Advertising
September 19 – November 8, 2008
Kevin Concannon, PhD, and John Noga, curators
Sometimes puzzling, sometimes provocative, works in advertising media by artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Jeff Koons to 0100101110101101.ORG have both delighted and disturbed audiences that are sometimes left to wonder exactly what it is they’re seeing. Indeed, artists have used the media of advertising to communicate content that often defies viewers’ expectations and frequently challenges them. Agency: Art and Advertising is an exhibition that explores artists’ use of advertising media as sites for works of art (as opposed to the more conventional use of advertising for the promotion of work) as well as its subject. The exhibition, curated by Kevin Concannon, PhD, and John Noga, will focus on works of art in and about advertising media from the 1960s to the present.
Artists themselves, who were largely critical of commercial culture when this “ad art” phenomenon first flourished in the 1960s, are now often ambivalent about –or even embracing of –the commercialism they once critiqued. Others simply choose to use advertising media in order to extend their reach beyond conventional contemporary art audiences. Agency: Art and Advertising examines the history of art in advertising spaces –and art that addresses commodity culture through the appropriation of advertising –as it has evolved over the past 50 years.
Stop and Stare
In conjunction with the exhibition, AGENCY: Art and Advertising, shown inside
the McDonough Museum of Art there are nine captivating works that are on view
outside the Museum’s walls. Dotting the Youngstown metropolitan area are
billboards featuring gigantic images created by artists Geoffrey Hendricks,
Marilyn Minter, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. These
spectacular images line the sky, compelling the public to stop and stare.
Agency: Art and Advertising
Catalog is available in the museum office or through our gift shop.
Exhibition Sponsors
Anonymous
Frank and Pearl Gelbman Charitable Foundation
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Lamar Advertising of Youngstown, Inc.
Toby Devan Lewis
Ohio Arts Council
Innis Maggiore
McDonough Museum of Art
Tuesday through Saturday, 11-4pm
Wednesday 11am-8pm
Free and open to the public.
call 330.941.1400
htttp://mcdonoughmuseum
John Lennon's "BAG ONE"
lithograph (Bag One portofolio),
"Exchange of Rings", 1970,
for "YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace" curated by Dr. Kevin Concannon at Emily Davis Gallery / Mary Schiller Myers School of Art / The University of Akron, Ohio, July 6 - September 7, 2007
" YOKO ONO
IMAGINE PEACE
Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
26 September - 28 October 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Opening Night / Wednesday 26 September 2007 / 5-9pm
Additional Events
"Yoko Ono: Imagining Peace, 1966-2007" / Lecture / Dr. Kevin Concannon
Wednesday 26 September, 6pm / Reception to follow
Recital Hall / Arts Building / UTSA 1604 campus
Dr. Kevin Concannon, Exhibition Curator and Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Akron
The U.S. vs. John Lennon / Film / Monday 1 October, 6pm
Retama auditorium UC 2.02.02 / UTSA 1604 Campus
The U.S. vs. John Lennon / Film / Thursday 11 October, 7pm
Buena Vista Auditorium / UTSA Downtown Campus
Yoko Ono Cut Piece / performed by Ken Little / Friday 26 October, 7pm
Aula Canaria 1.328 Buena Vista Building / UTSA Downtown Campus
Gallery Hours / Monday - Friday 10-4pm / Saturday -Sunday 1-4pm
For more info / art.utsa.edu / 210.458.4391
Exhibition is free and open to public
This exhibition is organized by the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron "
" IMAGINE PEACE
Yoko Ono, among the earliest of artists working in the genre known
Conceptual Arts, has consistently employed the theme of peace
and used the medium of advertising in her work since the early 1960s.
Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
explores these aspects of her work over the course of more than
forty years.
Three recent pieces - Imagine Peace (Map) (2003/2007); Onochord
(2003/2007); and Imagine Peace Tower (2006/2007) - offer gallery
visitors to an opportunity to participate individually and collectively
with the artist in the realization of work. Consider the world with
fresh eyes as you stamp the phrase "Imagine Peace" on the location
of your choice on maps provided for this purpose. Using postcards
provided send your wishes to the Imagine Peace
Tower in Reykjavik, where they will shine on with eternally more than
900,000 others. Or beam the message "I Love You" to one and all
using the Onochord flashlights. Take a flashlight and an Imagine
Peace button, the artist's gift to you, and carry the message out into the
world. As Ono has often observed, "the dream you dream alone is
just the dream, but the dream we dream together is reality."
The exhibition continues in nine locations with Imagine
Peace/Imaginate La Paz billboards across the San Antonio region.
YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace is made
possible by the generosity by Bjom's Audio Video-Home Theater, Colleen
Casey and Tim Maloney, Clear Channel Outdoor, Rick Liberto, Smothers
Foundation, and Twin Sisters Bakery & Cafe. "
" John & Yoko's Year of Peace (1969 - 70)
Ono's Imagine Peace project carries conceptual and formal
strategies the artist had employer from the earliest years of her
career, not only in her seminal solo works, but in her collaborations
with John Lennon. In 1965, she created works specifically for the
advertising pages of The New York Arts Calendar. Picking up from
her Instructions for Paintings, a 1962 exhibition at Tokyo's Sogetsu Art
Center in which she exhibited written texts on the gallery walls
designed to inspire viewers to create the described images in their
minds, Ono created purely conceptual exhibitions with her
Is Real Gallery works.
The theme of peace is also evident in works sush as White Chess Set,
recreated here as Play It By Trust (Garden Set version) (1966/2007).
Lennon's songwriting during this period had shifted from more
conventional themes of romantic love to grander anthems for the
Flower Power generation. The Baetles' worldwide satellite broadcast
of Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" in the summer of 1967 featured a
parade of signs with the word "love" in multiple languages.
The couple's most famous collaborative works, the Bed-Ins (1969)
and the War Is Over! campaign (1969 - 1970), were conceived as
elements of a large peace advertising campaign. The Bed-Ins took
advantage of the inordinate amount of press attention the couple
received by inviting the world press to their honeymoon suite where
they talked about peace! Ono told Penthouse magazine's Charles
Childs: "Many other people who are rich are using their money for
something they want. They promote soap, use advertising
propaganda, what have you. We intend to do the same."
In December of 1969, they launched their War Is Over! campaign, a
project that included billboards and posters in 11 cities of the world
simply declaring "War Is Over! If You Want It. Happy Christmas from
John & Yoko." As with Ono's earliest instruction pieces, viewers were
invited to transform their dreams into reality. Ono has explained,
"All my work is a form of wishing." "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Yoko Ono, Japanese artist and peace activist, at the global launch of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) “Imagine Project”, a musical and technological initiative helping to highlight the challenges that children face throughout the world and to raise funds for UNICEF’s work in more than 190 countries and territories.
The event took place at the UN General Assembly Hall as part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
20 November 2014
United Nations, New York
Photo # 613063