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We say it in so many ways, but we are one.
I love you!
Yoko Ono Lennon
1 December 2015
Yoko Ono, 1990, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Brandeis, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, sculpture
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
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?
Contact: wanderwatersworks@gmail.com
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:
theappleprojects@gmail.com
info@artcurrents.com
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
" 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
(English translation at the bottom)
HOPE: CAMISETAS CONTRA EL VIH
Esta exposición colectiva enmarcada dentro de las jornadas de cultura del FESTIVAL VISIBLE, nace de la idea surgida en la segunda mitad del siglo XX de transformar la camiseta en una forma de expresión y de utilizarla como medio de comunicación. Las camisetas comenzaron a hablar de libertad, amor, solidaridad, ecología, pacifismo… todos los temas importantes que importaban entonces y que siguen importando ahora; por eso en esta ocasión se ha querido volver a utilizar la camiseta para tratar temas tan vitales, esenciales y actuales como la lucha contra el VIH, el sexo seguro o los derechos de las personas seropositivas.
En la muestra han participado 35 artistas procedentes de España, Colombia, Portugal y Japón que con su intervención han convewrtido a las camisetas en mensajes de esperanza.
A la cabeza de la exposición está la artista Yoko Ono quien ha querido sumarse a esta muestra solidaria con una camiseta en la que ha caligrafiado en caracteres kanji japonés la palabra "esperanza" que ha acabado por convertirse en parte dle título de esta exposición.
Lista completa de artistas participantes:
Abajo Izquierdo, Heitor Alvelos, Jorge Artajo, Virginia Calvo, Pepe Carretero, Ma Céspedes, Javier Chavarría, José Luis Cremades, Eliecer, César Fernández Arias, Leo García, José Garcinuño, Rafa García Tejero, José Manuel Hortelano-Pi, Alfonso López, Gregorio Madriturra, Ángeles Marcos, Luján Marcos, Rufino de Mingo, Palmira Morán, José Manuel Nuevo, Yoko Ono, David Ortega, Marta Petite, Lucho Piedrahita, Alberto Ramírez, José Rincón, Luis Riomoros, Paula Sampelayo, Inés Santamaría, Antonio Santos, Luis Sanz, Agustín Simón, David Trullo y Vritis.
CENTRO CULTURAL PILAR MIRÓ
Plaza ANTONIO MARIA SEGOVIA s/n - 28031 MADRID
TELEFONO: 91 305 24 08
AUTOBUS: 58 y METRO: Vallecas Villa
Del 25 de junio al 12 de julio, 2011
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
(English translation at the bottom)
ducción del español al inglés
HOPE T-SHIRTS AGAINST HIV
This group show, part of the FESTIVAL VISIBLE of LGTB culture, came up from the idea born in the second half of the twentieth century in which T-Shirts became a form of expression and were use it as a means of communication. T-Shirts started talking about freedom, love, solidarity, ecology, pacifism ... all very important issues that mattered then and now; so the aim of this show is to recover that spirit to talk again about very essential and current issues as fight against HIV, safe sex or the human rights of people with HIV.
In this Show 35 artists from Spain, Colombia, Portugal and Japan have transformed with their paintings all these T-Shirts in messages of hope.
At the head of the exhibition is the artist Yoko Ono who has showed her solidarity contributing with a T-Shirt in which she has caligraphied in Kanji Japanese characters the word "Hope" which at the end has become part of the title of the whole show.
Full list of artists:
Abajo Izquierdo, Alvelos Heitor, Jorge Artajo, Virginia Calvo, Pepe Carretero, Ma Céspedes, Javier Chavarria, Jose Luis Cremades, Eliecer, César Fernández Arias, Leo García, José Garcinuño, Rafa García Tejero, José Manuel Hortelano-Pi, Alfonso Lopez Gregory Madriturra, Angeles Marcos, Marcos Luján, Rufino de Mingo, Palmira Morán, José Manuel Nuevo, Yoko Ono, David Ortega, Marta Petite, Lucho Piedrahita, Alberto Ramirez, Jose Rincon, Luis Riomoros, Paula Sampelayo, Inés Santamaría, Antonio Santos, Luis Sanz, Agustin Simon, David Trullo and Vritis.
CENTRO CULTURAL PILAR MIRO
ANTONIO MARIA SEGOVIA Square s / n - 28031 MADRID
BUS: 58,
METRO: Vallecas Villa
From June 25 to July 12, 2011
"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
" 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
Women's "IMAGINE PEACE" T-shirt in orange/pink
designed by Yoko Ono
for "FASHION AGAINST AIDS", May 2009
imaginepeace.com/news/archives/6779
Some of the biggest celebrities from the world of fashion, music and style will be joining H&M and Designers Against AIDS (DAA) for Fashion Against AIDS, to help fight the disease and raise youth awareness. Katy Perry, Dita Von Teese, N.E.R.D and Yoko Ono are among the artists who will collaborate with H&M on designs for T-shirts, T-shirt dresses, vests and bodies. 25% of the sales price will be donated to youth HIV/AIDS awareness projects. The collection, in 100% organic cotton, for both guys and girls will go on sale in H&M’s youth DIVIDED department from May 28 2009.
“The designs have a real 80’s feel to them, there’s lots of white, bright colours and graffiti-like prints. Girls can wear the pieces with mini’s, or worn denim and big jewellery, while boys can team them with coloured jeans or rolled-up chinos – it all adds to that 80s feeling. Fighting AIDS is always of great importance, and H&M is overwhelmed with the enthusiasm and the commitment from each and every celebrity involved in this collection.”
Ann-Sofie Johansson, H&M head of design.
“H&M and Fashion Against AIDS are so important to us because we could never reach so many young people on our own. AIDS is still very much a subject that’s vitally important today. People build their attitude towards their sex lives when they’re very young, so it’s important for them to realize that safe sex is a vital part of that as early as possible.”
Ninette Murk, founder, Designers Against AIDS.
For this year’s Fashion Against AIDS collection, the message is loud and clear, with bold slogans and colours as vibrant as the summer. “PROTECTION IS POWER” reads the print from RÓISÍN MURPHY across a T-shirt, wrapped around the front and back of a body, while N.E.R.D uses a clever graphic to shout out “USE YOUR BRAIN” on coloured vests and T-shirts. ESTELLE’s contribution has the slogan “LIFE IS TOO SHORT – HAVE SEX BE SAFE” printed on a vest next to a sassy silhouette of an empowered woman, while KATY PERRY’s clever safe sex message is “IT’S WHAT’S ON THE OUTSIDE THAT COUNTS” on both a body and a cap-sleeved Tee. CYNDI LAUPER’s 80’s feeling design has the words “GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE SAFE SEX” as if scribbled in pink lipstick on a black vest, while YOKO ONO repeats the words “IMAGINE PEACE” in languages from around the world on coloured T-shirts. ROBYN’s feisty statement is “Protect your body” on a T-shirt with printed diamonds, while DITA VON TEESE, already a champion of AIDS causes, offers an alluring image of her iconic red lips and arched brow on a cute cap-sleeved Tee.
“It’s an honor to be asked to take part in this brilliant project. Every little thing that we do as individuals can add up to something that makes a major impact in the fight against HIV. With the purchase of these stylish t-shirts, you can be a part of something that makes a huge difference in this pandemic, while looking super-chic!”
Dita Von Teese.
In the UK alone an estimated 80,000 people were living with HIV by the end of 2007. Worryingly, it is estimated that 28% of those were unaware of their HIV positive status. In 2007, at least 7,000 new cases of HIV infection were reported. Fashion Against AIDS fights the assumption that the message about HIV and AIDS is well known. Each new generation needs to be made aware of AIDS to prevent further spread of the disease. With HIV and AIDS, complacency is not an option.
It’s the second year that H&M have teamed up with the charitable organisation Designers Against AIDS to spread the message of safe sex to the young. Last year’s campaign was a stunning success, with over SEK 15 million donated to HIV/AIDS-preventive projects. This year’s beneficiaries are Designers Against AIDS, YouthAIDS, UNFPA and MTV Staying Alive Foundation.
FASHION AGAINST AIDS CELEBRITIES Dita Von Teese, Katy Perry, Róisín Murphy, Estelle, Cyndi Lauper, N.E.R.D, Robyn, Yoko Ono, Yelle, Moby, Katharine Hamnett, Dangerous Muse, Tokio Hotel.
In the United States alone, over one million people were living with HIV by the end of 2008.
An estimated 250,000 of these individuals are unaware of their HIV positive status.
Each new generation needs to be made aware of AIDS to prevent further spread of the disease.
With HIV and AIDS, complacency is not an option.
For more information on the non-profit organisation Designers Against AIDS, visit www.designersagainstaids.com
Private collection of Mikihiko Hori
Night-time view of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER ISLAND showing the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, VISITORS CENTER, Jetty, Boats, Hot Air Balloon, Wish Tree & Spring Spa.
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER IN SECOND LIFE
‘I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon.
My love for you is forever.’
Yoko Ono
‘Imagine all the people living life in peace’
John Lennon
‘A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.’
Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER IN SECOND LIFE
9 OCTOBER 2009
On Friday 9th October 2009, Yoko Ono will be in Iceland for the annual lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.
Later the same evening, at 10.30pm (Reykjavik time), Yoko will unveil a new IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on IMAGINE PEACE TOWER ISLAND in Second Life, an online virtual world.
You are invited to join us on IMAGINE PEACE TOWER ISLAND for this event.
SECOND LIFE
Second Life is the internet’s largest user-created 3D virtual world community, designed and built by its inhabitants.
It’s an online universe brimming with people and possibilities: a place to connect, shop, work, love, explore, and just be.
You can find out more about it here.
Membership is free.
GET STARTED
Sign up to Second Life here.
Download the necessary software for your PC or Mac here.
That’s it! You’re ready to enter Second Life.
There’s an easy and very helpful guide to getting started here.
Once you have entered Second Life, you will find IMAGINE PEACE TOWER Island here.
UNVEILING: WORLDWIDE DATES AND TIMES
The unveiling ceremony will begin at approximately the following dates and times:
Oct 9th 02.30pm Anchorage
Oct 9th 03.30pm Los Angeles
Oct 9th 04.30pm Guatemala
Oct 9th 05.30pm Chicago
Oct 9th 06.30pm New York, Montreal & Toronto
Oct 9th 07.30pm Rio de Janeiro
Oct 9th 10.30pm Reykjavik
Oct 9th 11.30pm Liverpool & London
Oct 10th 00.30am Europe
Oct 10th 01.30am Baghdad
Oct 10th 02.30am Moscow
Oct 10th 03.30am Karachi
Oct 10th 04.30am Dhaka
Oct 10th 05.30am Bangkok
Oct 10th 06.30am Shanghai
Oct 10th 07.30am Tokyo
Oct 10th 08.30am Sydney
Oct 10th 09.30am Vladivostok
Oct 10th 10.30am Suva
Oct 10th 11.30am Auckland
Oct 10th 12.30pm Kiritimati
You can check what time the event will be happening here.
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER IN SECOND LIFE
LIGHTING UP TIMES AFTER THE CEREMONY
After the opening ceremony, the Second Life IMAGINE PEACE TOWER will begin its cycle of illumination approximately 15 minutes after sunset on every Second Life day and will remain illuminated until dawn. The days are much shorter in Second Life than in the real world. Sunset happens in Second Life every day at the following times, both am and pm:
01.30, 05.30, 09.30: Chicago, Baghdad, Bangkok, Vladivostok
02.30, 06.30, 10.30: Anchorage, Montreal, Toronto, Reykjavik, Moscow, Shanghai, Suva
03.30, 07.30, 11.30: Los Angeles, Rio de Janiero, Liverpool, London, Karachi, Tokyo, Auckland
04.30, 08.30, 12.30: Guatemala, Europe, Dhaka, Sydney, Kiritimati
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER IN SECOND LIFE
When you arrive at the island, you will first visit the VISITORS CENTER.
IN THE VISITORS CENTER:
ONOCHORD DOCUMENTARY FILM
explains more of the history and philosophy of Yoko Ono’s ONOCHORD.
ONOCHORD TORCHES
are to hold in your hand and flash “i ii iii” (I love you) to one another.
ONOCHORD POSTCARDS
are to explain the message and send to your friends.
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER DOCUMENTARY
explains the history and philosophy of Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.
IMAGINE PEACE POSTCARDS, BUTTONS, T-SHIRTS etc
are free and for you to share with your friends.
IMAGINE PEACE & IMAGINE PEACE TOWER BOOKS
are available to read in the VISITORS CENTER.
WISH TREES
Outside the VISITORS CENTER and around the island you will find WISH TREES.
Make a WISH and your wish will also be sent to the real life IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Iceland.
BOAT RIDES
Also outside the VISITORS CENTER are some boats in which you can travel around the island.
CONTROL PANEL
These are stationed around the island, and enable various modes of dancing as well as teleporting you to different vantage points on and above the island:
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER WISHING WELL
The wishing well of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER consists of white panels inscribed with the words IMAGINE PEACE in 24 different languages
CLOUDS
There are 4 CLOUDS – at 125m, 225m, 300m and 500m. Inspired by the writings from Yoko’s GRAPEFRUIT and her album artwork for IMAGINE and LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO, these are platforms where you can take in the view, meet, talk and dance, while clouds magically form under your feet. You can fly or teleport between these platforms using the CONTROL PANEL, and from the top platform, you can take a parachute jump back down to the base and enjoy the view.
HOT SPRING SPA
Volcanic springs are common in Iceland. In fact, the real IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is entirely run on Geothermal Energy – from naturally occurring hot water. Here is a place to meditate, unwind and enjoy the view.
HOT AIR BALLOON
Inspired by John and Yoko’s film ‘Apotheosis” (which was all filmed from a hot air balloon) you can take a ride around the island on the IMAGINE PEACE balloon.
LINKS
Beginning October 9th you can find the Second Life IMAGINE PEACE TOWER here.
More information about the real world IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
More information about Yoko Ono’s WISH TREES
More information on SL Developer Herzog-Brenham
Original article: ROLE magazine (Oct 2009)
"ONOCHORD" (2004/2007)
by Yoko Ono
video, flashlights, postcards
video: 9 minutes
flashlight: 4 x 1/4 inches
postcard: 6 x 4 inches
" ONOCHORD
Send the ONOCHORD message:
"I LOVE YOU"
by repeatedly blinking the light
in the frequencies and durations
required for the message:
from ships
from the tops of the mountains
from buildings
using whole buildings
in town squares
from the sky
and to the sky.
Keep sending the message
to the end of the year
and beyond.
Keep sending the message
everywhere on the earth
and to the universe.
Keep sending.
For individuals:
send the message by hand
or using flashlights
or with lighters.
The message I LOVE YOU in ONOCHORD is:
I i
LOVE ii
YOU iii
I love you!
yoko ono 2007 "
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
Yoko Ono (at microphone and shown on screen), Japanese artist and peace activist, speaks 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. Australian actor Hugh Jackman (left) and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness are also on stage.
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.
20 November 2014
United Nations, New York
Photo # 613080
"Play It by Trust" (1966/2007)
by Yoko Ono
Garden Chess Set version
plastic chess pieces and wood chessboard
king piece: 25 x 9 inches
chessboard: 168 x 168 inches
"HAIR PEACE" 1969
by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
sign hung in the room during the Amsterdam Bed-In
authorized reproduction
17 3/4 x 22 3/4 inches
"Vinyl Bag (Bag One portfolio)" 1970
by John Lennon
vinyl portfolio bag
25 x 33 inches
"In Bed for Peace (Bag One portfolio)" 1970
by John Lennon
lithograph
31 x 37 inches framed
"I Do (Bag One portfolio)" 1970
by John Lennon
lithograph
30 x 36 inches framed
"Honeymoon (Bag One portfolio)" 1970
by John Lennon
lithograph
30 x 35 inches framed
"Exchange of Rings (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