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" LIGHT HOUSE
The light house is a phantom house that is built by sheer light.
You set up prisms at a certain time of day, under a certain evening
light which goes through the prisms, the light house appears in the
middle of the field like an image, except that, with this image, you can
actually go inside if you wanted to. The light house may not emerge
every day, just as the sun doesn't shine every day.
y.o. 1965* Rewritten in 1967 for Lisson Gallery, London "
"IMAGINE PEACE TOWER (artist's rendering)" 2006-07
by Yoko Ono
framed photograph and wish poscards
photograph: 31 x 40 inches framed
postcard: 4 x 6 inches
" AFFIRMATION FOR ICELAND FOR THE
DECLARATION OF IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
9 October 2006
yoko ono
Thank you, thank you, thank you
For a beautiful day.
This land is healthy and whole.
Every part of the land is rapidly rejuvenated and revitalized.
The land has power, wisdom, and wealth in abundance
which will be eventually shared by the whole planet.
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, which stands on this land,
with its eternal flame of light.
will emanate enlightenment and love to all corners of the world
and awake and inspire our planet in such a way that
there is no turning back and help us create the most satisfying
world for us and our offsprings.
So be it. "
" 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
" GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
From the very first moment John and I saw each
other, we knew something was about to happen -
something big. We just didn't know how big. When
John and I sang "Give Peace A Chance" from our
Bed-In in Montreal, we had no idea the song would
become an anthem not only for our time but for
generations to come. It went around the world, and
made other songwriters realize that you can convey
political messages with songs. Millions of people got
together and joined in it's chorus. Singing it together
made us all realize that we were a power strong
enough to change the world. Little did we know that
that's when we, John and I, really made our beds for
life.
IMAGINE PEACE!
WAR IS OVER, If you want it.
y.o. July '07 "
" 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
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!
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
Yoko Ono:” Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited”.
Yoko Ono is a Japanese-American artist, musician, author and peace activist, also known for her marriage to John Lennon and her groundbreaking work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre. She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs. In 2002, Ono inaugurated her own peace award, The Lenono Grant for Peace, by giving $50,000 (£31,900) prize money to artists living "in regions of conflict." Israeli and Palestinian artists were the first recipients. The award is given out every two years, in conjunction with the lighting of the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.
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
Sean Scully
Window Diptych Green 2018
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" YOKO ONO CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
by Yoko Ono
Black coffin car (Mercedes Benz 220, 1971) with instruction printed on each side of the car, driver.
“Ride a coffin car all over the city” wrote Yoko Ono in 1962 for her legendary book, Grapefruit, a collection of proposals for artistic activities. Now the Kunsthalle Bielefeld will have the piece performed: visitors to the exhibition can be chauffeured through Bielefeld for a few minutes in a real hearse; in this very special vehicle, one has an altered view of the city and one’s own life. Please sign up for a ride!
24 Aug 2008 - 16 Nov 2008
Yoko Ono: Between The Sky And My Head
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Gemeinnutzige Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, Artur-Ladebeck-Strasse 5, 33602 Bielefeld, Germany
More info here:
www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/web_neu/download/KunsthalleBi...
Website:
Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
COFFIN CAR
Wednesday, Fridays & Saturdays
17 December 2008 - 14 March 2009
Visitors to BETWEEN THE SKY AND MY HEAD at BALTIC will be able to participate in a realisation of a 1962 instruction piece which invites people to "Ride a coffin car all over the city", throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Coffin Car (a classic English Daimler hearse) will be located adjacent to BALTIC on South Shore Road and will take visitors for journeys throughout Gateshead and Newcastle. Coffin Car will be available on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays between 11.00-16.00 from Wednesday 17 December. Ask at Information Desk at BALTIC to book a place on the day of your visit. Reservations can also be made in advance by calling 0191 478 1810.
Terms and conditions: A maximum of 2 visitors can travel in Coffin Car at anyone time. Individual visitors wishing to participate in Coffin Car will be doubled up when necessary at peak times. Participants must be aged 18 or over, and if under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian aged 18 or over. Coffin Car will not be available on Wednesday 24 December or Friday 26 December 2008.
more info at the BALTIC website:
IMAGINE PEACE
Yoko Ono
2003
Yoko's contribution to The Buddha Project
co-curated by Jeanne Grossetti
at Cleveland State University Art Gallery in 2004.
These prints were distributed free to visitors of the show. Also buttons
witht the same message were given away.
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW, San Antonio, Texas
" 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 "
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 CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
" YOKO ONO CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
"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
" 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
"DIAS - Photofeature" by John Prosser
in "Art and Artists" October, 1966
-- Page 65
DIAS
Destruction In Art
The international Symposium of Destruction
in Art was held in London during the week
beginning the 9th of September. It was
attended by many visitors from Europe and
America, and events, discussions and
lectures took place in various parts of the
city. These photographs were taken by John
Prosser.
1 Protesters at Better Books, Charing
Cross Road
2 Biff Stevens: 'Balloon' Happening,
Battersea Park
3 Robin Page: 'Know-1' at Better Books
basement
4 Robin Page in the Hole
5 'Art and Artists' party for DIAS
6 Wolf Vostell and Gustav Metzger at the
party
7 An event in a playground, Acklam Road
8 The DIAS Group
9 A picture-burning by Pro Diaz
10&11 Werner Schreib: 'Death of Lucullus'
12 Symposium in progress at the Africa
Center
13 John Sharkey and Yoko Ono at the
Symposium
14 Robin Page, Jasia Reichardt and Hans
Sohm at the Symposium
15 Gustav Metzger, Wolf Vostell, Al Hansen
and Hidalgo at the Symposium
16 Ivor Davies at the Symposium
17 Fred Hunter in the 'Paper' Happening,
Conway Hall
18 Otto Mühl and Günter Brus : 'Breathing'
event, Conway Hall
19 Ralph Orzits: 'Paper' Happening, Conway
Hall
20 Yoko Ono on stage, Conway Hall
Art and Artists
Volume One, Number Seven
October 1966
Edited by Mario Amaya
London: Hansom Books, 1966
Private collection of Mikihiko Hori
Daytime view of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER ISLAND showing VISITORS CENTER, Jetty, Boats, Hot Air Balloon & Wish Tree.
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)
" YOKO ONO CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
This is one of the last images ever taken of John Lennon. This was taken on the day of his murder at approximately 12PM in a photo session at apartment 72 (his main apartment) in The Dakota. The photographer was Annie Leibovitz.
Here I am performing Yoko Ono's "Stone Piece" from her 1964 book of performance instructions, Grapefruit.
Tape Piece I
Stone Piece
Take the sound of the stone aging.
We're Here! making Performance Art.
" YOKO ONO CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
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
Ausstellungsansicht | Exhibition View
Kunsthaus Graz, Space01 & Space02, Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz
Laufzeit | Duration: 14.11.2014-15.02.2015
www.museum-joanneum.at/Kunsthaus
www.museumsblog.at/DamageControl
© Universalmuseum Joanneum / N. Lackner
" YOKO ONO CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
Ausstellungsansicht | Exhibition View
Kunsthaus Graz, Space01 & Space02, Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz
Laufzeit | Duration: 14.11.2014-15.02.2015
www.museum-joanneum.at/Kunsthaus
www.museumsblog.at/DamageControl
© Universalmuseum Joanneum / N. Lackner
This is the last photograph ever taken of John Lennon while alive. This was taken at approximately 5:00-5:30 PM on December 8th, 1980. The reason why the picture is so fuzzy is because the flash failed to go off. The photographer is Paul Goresh.
"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
" 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 CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
Yoko Ono Lennon interview at SXSW in Austin, Texas on Friday, Mar 18. She said that if John were alive today he would be tweeting. She talked about her youth in Tokyo and her son Sean Lennon.
"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
" 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 TOWER in Second Life - with leaping dolphin.
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)
" YOKO ONO CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
" YOKO ONO CUT PIECE
performed by john noga
Akron-Summit County Public Main Library Auditorium
Wednesday 29 August 2007 7pm "
" YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
(The Akron-Summit County Public Library is the site of the performance, and is not a sponsor.)
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono's performance, Cut Piece (1964), first performed by the artist herself in
Kyoto, Japan, in 1964, will be performed this evening by graduate student and assistant
curator of the IMAGINE PEACE exhibition, John Noga. The exhibition Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE, Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace, curated by Kevin
Concannon (with John Noga), is on display through September 7th at the Mary Schiller
Myers School of Art's Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St, Akron)
on the campus of The University of Akron.
While Cut Piece is now widely understood as a feminist performance piece, Ono's early
performances of the work were commonly understood quite differently. Ono performed
the piece a number of times between 1964 and 1966. At the time, she spoke of it as a test
of her commitment as an artist. She frequently told interviewers a story about the
Buddha in which he comes across a hungry lioness and her cubs. taking pity on her
plight, he hurls his body off a cliff above the lioness, scattering the pieces of his body to
offer nourishment to the animals. At the moment of his leap, he achieves enlightenment.
Ono also often discussed the piece as an attempt to move beyond the artist's ego. The
artist, she explained, often gave his audience what he thought they should have. She
wished instead for the audience to take what it wanted from the work. With Cut Piece,
she expressed this quite literally.
The performance score (instructions) calls for the performer to sit on the stage wearing
his or her best suit of clothing with a pair of scissors placed in front of him or her. it is
then announced that members of the audience may approach the stage one at a time to cut
a piece of clothing that they may take with them. The performance ends at the
performer's discretion. Witnessing the performance, it becomes clear that the cutters are
performers as well. The audience observes that each voluntary participation has their own
unique and distinct approach to the work.
in 2003, Ono performed the work personally for the last time. She did it, she says, for
peace, and against ageism, racism, and sexism.
Thank you for being a part of tonight's special performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art
The University of Akron "
YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE (1964)
Performed by John Noga, graduate assistant, The University of Akron
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Master of Arts Administration program
Introduction by Kevin Concannon, associate professor of art, UA
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library
"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
" 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
" 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
This is one of the last images ever taken of John Lennon. This was taken on the day of his murder at approximately 12PM in a photo session at apartment 72 (his main apartment) in The Dakota. The photographer was Annie Leibovitz. This would later be used as the cover for Rolling Stone issue 335.
"DIAS - Photofeature" by John Prosser
in "Art and Artists" October, 1966
-- Page 64
DIAS
Destruction In Art
The international Symposium of Destruction
in Art was held in London during the week
beginning the 9th of September. It was
attended by many visitors from Europe and
America, and events, discussions and
lectures took place in various parts of the
city. These photographs were taken by John
Prosser.
1 Protesters at Better Books, Charing
Cross Road
2 Biff Stevens: 'Balloon' Happening,
Battersea Park
3 Robin Page: 'Know-1' at Better Books
basement
4 Robin Page in the Hole
5 'Art and Artists' party for DIAS
6 Wolf Vostell and Gustav Metzger at the
party
7 An event in a playground, Acklam Road
8 The DIAS Group
9 A picture-burning by Pro Diaz
10&11 Werner Schreib: 'Death of Lucullus'
12 Symposium in progress at the Africa
Center
13 John Sharkey and Yoko Ono at the
Symposium
14 Robin Page, Jasia Reichardt and Hans
Sohm at the Symposium
15 Gustav Metzger, Wolf Vostell, Al Hansen
and Hidalgo at the Symposium
16 Ivor Davies at the Symposium
17 Fred Hunter in the 'Paper' Happening,
Conway Hall
18 Otto Mühl and Günter Brus : 'Breathing'
event, Conway Hall
19 Ralph Orzits: 'Paper' Happening, Conway
Hall
20 Yoko Ono on stage, Conway Hall
Art and Artists
Volume One, Number Seven
October 1966
Edited by Mario Amaya
London: Hansom Books, 1966
Private collection of Mikihiko Hori
Ausstellungsansicht | Exhibition View
Kunsthaus Graz, Space01 & Space02, Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz
Laufzeit | Duration: 14.11.2014-15.02.2015
www.museum-joanneum.at/Kunsthaus
www.museumsblog.at/DamageControl
© Universalmuseum Joanneum / N. Lackner
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
John Lennon
John Lennon would have been 70 years old today if he was alive. Today Yoko Ono tender her Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland as every year since she installed it there.
About the peace tower:
On October 9th 2007, Yoko Ono unveiled the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Videy Island, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Dedicated to the memory of her late husband John Lennon on what would have been his 67th birthday, the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER will shine as a beacon for World Peace.
Read more here: www.flickr.com/groups/imaginepeace/
This is a edited version of my picture. I damaged my camera when taken this picture, the wind was so strong that it fell down on the tripod...