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Yoko Ono
Yes TV Spots (Planet Propaganda for Walker Art Center):
Water, 2001.
Three 30-second television
advertisements.
"STEAL MOON
ON THE WATER WITH
A BUCKET. KEEP STEALING
UNTIL NO MOON IS SEEN
ON THE WATER."
"YES YOKO ONO
AN EXHIBITION
MARCH 10 - JUNE 17 WALKER ART CENTER
ORGANIZED BY JAPAN SOCIETY, NEW YORK
'WATER PIECE.' 1964 SPRING (C)2001 YOKO ONO"
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.ysu.edu
"yokoono: heal (Yoko Ono
via Facebook)"
"IMAGINE PEACE Think PEACE,
Act PEACE, Spread PEACE.
love, yoko (@yoko ono via
Twitter"
LAMAR
facebook.com/Lamar Youngstown"
May 7, 2010
5555 Youngstown Warren Rd, Niles, Ohio
This is a portrait of John and Sean that was painted by a local artist on Long Island. The painting hangs above John's upright Steinway & Sons piano in Studio One, John and Yoko's office. Studio One is a four room studio apartment on the second floor of The Dakota. Possibly November 1980.
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S, 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
"夢をもとう
YUME O MOTOU (LET'S HAVE A DREAM)"
By YOKO ONO & PLASTIC ONO SUPER BAND
Japanese 7-inch single, released in August, 1974
from Odeon Records, Japan
" 夢をもとう YUME O MOTOU (LET'S HAVE A DREAM) (3' 50")
イット・ハプンド IT HAPPENED (3' 51")
[Singing & Performance] YOKO ONO & PLASTIC ONO SUPER BAND
[Produce] YOKO ONO & DAVID SPINOZZA
夢をもたう
愛し合はうよ、愛し合はう
どんなにもがいても明日済む生命
ニューヨークのスカイラインを抱きしめて
愛し合はうよ、愛し合はう
許し合はうよ、許し合おはう
どんなに憎んでも明日済む生命
セーヌの流れを見送って
許し合はうよ、許し合おはう
（コーラス）
夢をもちたい、夢をもちたい
愛し合いたい、愛し合いたい
抱きしめ合いたい、抱きしめ合いたい
許し合いたい、許し合いたい
合いたい 合いたい 合いたい 合いたい
愛 愛 愛 愛 愛 愛 愛 愛
夢をもたうよ、夢もたう
どんなにつらくても生きながらへて
日本の緑にひたりたい
（銀座の柳に吹かれたい）
夢をもたうよ、夢もたう
YUME O MOTOU
Aishiaouyo, Aishiaou
Donnani Mogaitemo Asu sumu Inochi
Nyu-Youku no Sukai-Rain o dakishimete
Aishiaouyo, Ashiaou
Yurushiaouyo, Yurushiaou
Donnani Nikundemo Asu sumu Inochi
Seenu no nagare o miokutte
Yurushiaouyo, Yurushiaou
(CHORUS)
Yume o mochitai, Yume o mochitai
Aishiaitai, Aishiaitai
Dakishimeaitai, Dakishimeaitai
Yurushiaitai, Yurushiaitai
Atai Aitai Aitai Aitai
Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai
Yume o motouyo, Yume motou
Donnani Tsurakutemo Ikinagaraete
Nihon no Midori ni hitaritai
(Ginza no Yanagi ni fukaretai)
Yume o motouyo, Yume motou
Reference regarding Yoko Ono
03(585)1111 TOSHIBA-EMI LIMITED
Keiichi Ishizaka Shinichi Miyoshi
Welcome to Japan!
Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Super Band
(EOR-10628) Copying on tape etc., from Record without permission is prohibited by
laws. MADE IN JAPAN
TOSHIBA-EMI LIMITED "
Private Collection of Mikihiko Hori
Yoko Ono (* 18. Februar 1933 in Tokio) ist eine japanisch-amerikanische Künstlerin, Filmemacherin, Komponistin experimenteller Musik und Sängerin und gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen der Fluxus-Bewegung. Sie hatte sich bereits in Künstlerkreisen einen Namen gemacht, als sie durch ihre Ehe mit John Lennon allgemein bekannt wurde. Immer wieder hat Yoko Ono sich für Frieden und Menschenrechte eingesetzt.
The WAR IS OVER! campaign was launched on 15 December 1969 at the Peace for Christmas concert, a benefit for UNICEF held at London’s Lyceum Ballroom.
Ono and Lennon performed with George Harrison, Keith Moon, Billy Preston, and The Delaney and Bonnie Band, Alan White, Bobby Keyes, Keith Moon, Klaus Voormann, Jim Gordon and Billy Preston - as the Plastic Ono Supergroup. Their two-song, twenty-five minute set featured extended versions of both sides of their latest single: Cold Turkey and Don’t Worry Kyoko.
A huge War Is Over! banner was hung across the stage, and postcards were distributed to the audience.
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
_______________________________________
This exhibition is organized by the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron
UTSA
Art
Gallery
Satellite
Space
Department of Art
and Art History
Gallery Hours
Mon - Fri 10a-4p
Sat-Sun 1p-4p
For more info
phone 210.458.4391
Exhibition is free and open to public
UTSA Art Gallery Department of Art and Art Hisotry One UTSA Circle San Antonio Texas 78249
The LennonOno Grant for Peace was created by Yoko Ono Lennon to honour her late husband John Lennon’s dedication to peace and commitment to the preservation of human rights.
Created in 2002, this biennial award has always been given to two recipients.
To mark this special anniversary year, Yoko Ono presented this award to four recipients who have been selected based on their courage and commitment to peace, truth and human rights.
The recipients are:
Filmmaker Josh Fox wrote and directed the documentary feature film Gasland in 2010. Josh’s work is known for its mix of gripping narrative, heightened imagery and its commitment to socially conscious themes and subjects.
Barbara Kowalcyk was propelled into food safety advocacy in 2001, when her two-year-old son, Kevin, died after suffering an E.coli infection from tainted food. Barbara and her mother Patricia Buck created the Center for Foodborne Illness & Prevention (CFI) a national non-profit organization committed to improving public health by preventing foodborne illness through research, education, advocacy and service.
Author Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment. He is the author of numerous best sellers, most recently Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
Author, poet, and activist Alice Walker is known for her brave stance against racism, sexism, and human rights issues. In 2009, she traveled to Gaza along with a group of 60 other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink to oppose the controversial blockade and violence against Gaza by Israel and Egypt. Her book Overcoming Speechlessness documents her experiences in Gaza and abroad.
That's Yoko Ono that is, in a still from a very nasty and degrading film (don't all rush at once, and I only saw the trailer, y'know what that means), by the exploitation madame and mister of sleaze Roberta and Michael Findlay, who also gave us edifying classics as The Sin Syndicate and later "Snuff". This look slike it could have been an inspiration for Last House on the Left (but maybe that's true of half a dozen young people go on rampage movies of the time).
On 14 December 2008, I was privileged to be at a performance of "OnoChord" by the amazing Yoko Ono at the Baltic in Gateshead. At the end she invited us all to take a piece of pottery from a pot she had smashed that day and to meet up again with our piece in 10 years time . Well - just to say, Yoko, I didn't forget.....
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W, 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
"夢をもとう
YUME O MOTOU (LET'S HAVE A DREAM)"
By YOKO ONO & PLASTIC ONO SUPER BAND
Japanese 7-inch single, released in August, 1974
from Odeon Records, Japan
B-side: "IT HAPPENED"
By YOKO ONO & PLASTIC ONO SUPER BAND
Japanese 7-inch single, released in August, 1974
from Odeon Records, Japan
IT HAPPENED
By Yoko Ono
It happened at a time of my life when I least
expected
It happened at a time of my life when I least
expected
I don't even remember how it happened
I don't even remember the day it happened
But it happened
Yes, it happened
Ooh, it happened
And I know there's no return, no way
I don't even remember how it happened
I don't even remember the day it happened
But it happened
Yes, it happened
Ooh, it happened
And I know there's no return, no way
Private Collection of Mikihiko Hori
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W, 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
Photo credit: Fred Seaman
From left to right: Helen Seaman (Sean's nanny and Fred's aunt through marriage), Sean Lennon, John Lennon, Yoko Ono.
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, revived last year by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon after a long hiatus, played an exclusive concert at Háskólabíó, Reykjavík on October 9th 2010, John & Sean Lennon's birthdays.
Sean Lennon setting up his Moogerfooger heavy effects chain at the Chimera Music Showcase at SXSW 2011.
The LennonOno Grant for Peace was created by Yoko Ono Lennon to honour her late husband John Lennon’s dedication to peace and commitment to the preservation of human rights.
Created in 2002, this biennial award has always been given to two recipients.
To mark this special anniversary year, Yoko Ono presented this award to four recipients who have been selected based on their courage and commitment to peace, truth and human rights.
The recipients are:
Filmmaker Josh Fox wrote and directed the documentary feature film Gasland in 2010. Josh’s work is known for its mix of gripping narrative, heightened imagery and its commitment to socially conscious themes and subjects.
Barbara Kowalcyk was propelled into food safety advocacy in 2001, when her two-year-old son, Kevin, died after suffering an E.coli infection from tainted food. Barbara and her mother Patricia Buck created the Center for Foodborne Illness & Prevention (CFI) a national non-profit organization committed to improving public health by preventing foodborne illness through research, education, advocacy and service.
Author Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment. He is the author of numerous best sellers, most recently Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
Author, poet, and activist Alice Walker is known for her brave stance against racism, sexism, and human rights issues. In 2009, she traveled to Gaza along with a group of 60 other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink to oppose the controversial blockade and violence against Gaza by Israel and Egypt. Her book Overcoming Speechlessness documents her experiences in Gaza and abroad.
Yoko Ono (American, b. Japan 1933)
Mixed media
6 1/8 x 6 1/6 x 7/16” – box; 2 x 5" – note (not exact dimensions)
Washington University in St. Louis purchase, 1990
WU 1990.13.5.K
Yoko Ono
Yes TV Spots (Planet Propaganda for Walker Art Center):
Sphere, 2001.
Three 30-second television
advertisements.
"THIS SPHERE WILL BE A SHARP POINT
WHEN IT GETS TO THE FAR CORNER
OF THE ROOM IN YOUR MIND"
"YES YOKO ONO
AN EXHIBITION
MARCH 10 - JUNE 17 WALKER ART CENTER
ORGANIZED BY JAPAN SOCIETY, NEW YORK
'POINTEDNESS,' 1964 (C)2001 YOKO ONO"
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.ysu.edu
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E, 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
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W, 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
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W, 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
2exp HDR. Per the signage, this is a 1961 work of art by Yoko Ono - I guess the instrution to "Scream...against the wind" is the art part. If you visit MOMA while this is in place, you'll hear the amplified shrieks, sighs, oms, etc. as soon as you enter the building!
There may not be much difference
Between Donald Trump and you if
we hear you sing
WE’RE ALL WATER (New York Rock version) by Yoko Ono
There may not be much difference
Between Woody Allen and Mother Theresa if
we strip them naked
There may not be much difference
Between Malcom X and Marilyn Monroe if
we check their coffins
There may not be much difference
Between White House and Bellevue Hospital if
we count their windows
There may not be much difference
Between Judge Thomas and Anita Hill if
we hear their heartbeat
We're all water from different rivers
That's why it's so easy to to meet
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean
Someday we'll evaporate together
There may not be much difference
Between the Queen of England and Michael Jackson if
we bottle their tears
There may not be much difference
Between Madonna and the Pope if
we press their smile
There may not be much difference
Between Donald Trump and you if
we hear you sing
There may not be much difference
Between you and me if
we show our dreams
We're all water from different rivers
That's why it's so easy to to meet
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean
Someday we'll evaporate together
For orders and inquiries, please contac : jorgeartajo@gmail.com
" 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