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The light on the left in the photo is John Lennon's peace tower. It's lit on Oct 9 and turned back off on dec 8
After a week-long Bed-In for Peace in Montreal and a Peace conference at The University of Ottowa, John and Yoko visited Niagara Falls in Canada at 4pm on Wednesday 4 June 1969.
They were on their way to Toronto and then home to London.
On the same day (4 June 1969), the Beatles single “The Ballad Of John and Yoko” was released.
From the website:
Add Color (Refugee Boat) (1960/2019) is an interactive installation conceived of by visual artist Yoko Ono. Upon opening, the work will be comprised simply of a boat placed within an empty space. The public will then be invited to paint their thoughts, ideas and hopes on the walls, floor and boat. As the installation progresses, messages will be written in support, contrast and literal obfuscation of one another, moving the space from visual calm to a layered visual chaos – a beautiful sea of color from afar, a more restless reality upon closer inspection. Freely imbued in this way with a multiplicity of thoughts, each time Add Color (Refugee Boat) is shown it both shares in the memory of past iterations, while taking on a life and a meaning of its own - acutely reflecting the time, place and people that come together to create it.
Poetography-Dawn
I snapped this photo one morning as the sun coming up and the moon setting in the west. The Font I used was: Magic:the Gathering Regular
9. október árið 2007 lýsti friðarsúlan í fyrsta skipti upp himinhvolfið yfir Reykjavík, daginn sem John Lennon hefði orðið 67 ára hefði hann lifað.
Áframhaldandi tilraunir með yoko ono og nú með Íslenskri vinkonu
9.october year 2007: The Imagine peace Tower, did for first time lighten up the sky above Reykjavik. That day would John Lennon have been 67 years old, if he had lived..
Carry on with my attempt to paint a portrait of yoko ono and now with an Icelandic friend
.... 1980 newspaper (Windsor Star) from Windsor, Ontario which I kept when Lennon was assassinated .... John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of the Beatles, for his subsequent solo career and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on 8 December 1980. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. After sustaining four fatal gunshot wounds, Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital, he was 40 years old. At the hospital, it was stated that nobody could have lived for more than a few minutes after sustaining such injuries. Shortly after local news stations reported Lennon's death, crowds gathered at Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota. Lennon was cremated on 10 December 1980 at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York; the ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him. .... John Lennon sings "Imagine" - youtu.be/DVg2EJvvlF8
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon.
It is situated on Viðey Island in Reykjavík, Iceland, where it is known as Friðarsúlan.
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Eröffnung: 10. September 2010, 18:00 - 21:00 Uhr, Heidestrasse 46, 10557 Berlin (10. September - 13. November 2010)
Haunch of Venison präsentiert Yoko Ono mit der grundlegend neuen Installation ‚Das Gift‘ vom 10. September bis zum 13. November 2010 in Berlin.
Yoko Ono gilt als Pionierin der Konzeptkunst. ‚Das Gift‘ besteht aus Filmen, Tonaufnahmen, Skulpturen und partizipativen Elementen und wurde eigens für die Ausstellung bei ‚Haunch of Venison‘ konzipiert.
Ono begann in den 1950er Jahren sich mit Konzeptkunst und partizipativer Kunst auseinander zu setzen. Ihre konzeptuelle Arbeit Grapefruit, eine Ideensammlung für Performances in Buchform, die 1964 entstand, liegt der Ausstellung in Berlin zugrunde. Ono behandelt die Themen Gewalt, Heilung, Veränderung oder Liebe mit sehr unterschiedlichen Mitteln und hinterfragt die Dichotomie von Persönlichem und Globalem.
Die Arbeit ‚A Hole‘, eine zugleich fragile, aber auch brutal anmutende Skulptur, welche einen Schwerpunkt in der Ausstellung bildet, besteht aus einer Glasfront, in deren Mitte ein sternförmiges Einschussloch prangt. Ins Glas eingraviert ist eine Aufforderung: „Gehen Sie auf die andere Seite der Glasscheibe und blicken Sie durch das Loch.“ Onos Anweisung fordert auf, beide Perspektiven, die des Aggressors sowie die des Opfers, einzunehmen, und somit zwei entgegengesetzte Standpunkte zu beziehen.
Yoko Ono sagt zu ihrer Ausstellung: „Ich will auf die Gewalt hinweisen, die überall in der Welt passiert. Ich bitte die Menschen, die in die Ausstellung kommen, ein Zeugnis einer persönlichen Gewalterfahrung mitzubringen, beispielsweise ein Foto oder einen Text, die an der Wand angebracht werden sollen. Im Obergeschoss der Galerie wird es hingegen einen Raum geben, in dem man einfach lächeln soll.“ Das Lächeln der Besucher wird auf Video aufgenommen und im Ausstellungsraum projiziert.
Yoko Ono wurde 1933 in Tokio geboren. Sie wuchs in Japan und New York auf und besuchte das Sarah Lawrence College. Ono gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen der Fluxus-Bewegung der 1960er Jahre. In ihrer Arbeit konzentriert sie sich hauptsächlich auf Performance und Konzeptkunst, wie auch experimentellen Film und Musik. Zu ihren wichtigsten Arbeiten werden die Konzeptarbeit Cut Piece und ihr Buch Grapefruit gezählt (beide 1964). - Ono lebt und arbeitet in New York.
Haunch Of Venison
Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahre 2002 in London präsentiert die Galerie Haunch of Venison in London, Berlin und New York ein breites und von Kritikern viel beachtetes Ausstellungsprogramm mit einigen herausragenden Vertretern zeitgenössischer Kunst. Die Berliner Dependance wurde im September 2007 eröffnet.
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THE POISON - Yoko Ono Exhibition, Berlin 2010
Opening: September 10, 2010, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Heidestrasse 46, 10557 Berlin (September 10 - November 13, 2010)
Haunch of Venison presents Yoko Ono with the fundamentally new installation 'The Gift' from September 10th to November 13th, 2010 in Berlin.
Yoko Ono is considered a pioneer of conceptual art. 'The Gift' consists of films, sound recordings, sculptures and participatory elements and was conceived specifically for the exhibition at 'Haunch of Venison'.
Ono began to engage with conceptual art and participatory art in the 1950s. The exhibition in Berlin is based on her conceptual work Grapefruit, a collection of ideas for performances in book form, which was created in 1964. Ono deals with the themes of violence, healing, change and love using very different means and questions the dichotomy of the personal and the global.
The work 'A Hole', a fragile yet brutal-seeming sculpture that forms a focal point of the exhibition, consists of a glass front with a star-shaped bullet hole in the middle. Engraved into the glass is an instruction: “Go to the other side of the glass pane and look through the hole.” Ono's instruction calls for you to take on both perspectives, that of the aggressor and that of the victim, and thus take two opposite points of view.
Yoko Ono says of her exhibition: “I want to point out the violence that is happening all over the world. I ask people who come to the exhibition to bring with them a testimony of a personal experience of violence, for example a photo or a text, to be hung on the wall. On the upper floor of the gallery, however, there will be a room where you can simply smile.” The visitors' smiles will be recorded on video and projected in the exhibition room.
Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933. She grew up in Japan and New York and attended Sarah Lawrence College. Ono is considered one of the most important representatives of the Fluxus movement of the 1960s. Her work focuses primarily on performance and conceptual art, as well as experimental film and music. Her most important works include the conceptual work Cut Piece and her book Grapefruit (both 1964). - Ono lives and works in New York.
Haunch Of Venison
Since its founding in London in 2002, the Haunch of Venison gallery has presented a broad and critically acclaimed exhibition program with some outstanding representatives of contemporary art in London, Berlin and New York. The Berlin branch was opened in September 2007.
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Zur Ausstellung DAS GIFT / About the exhibition THE POISON
"Mein neuestes Installationskunstwerk, DAS GIFT, bittet um Ihre Teilnahme, um die Welt von Gewalt zu heilen." - YOKO ONO
"My latest installation artwork, THE POISON, asks for your participation to heal the world of violence." - YOKO ONO
***** Erste Etage / First Floor *****
HELME (STÜCKE VOM HIMMEL) / HELMETS (PIECES OF SKY)
Alte deutsche Helme aus den letzten Kriegen sind hier und bilden einen eigenen seltsamen Wald mit STÜCKE VOM HIMMEL in jedem von ihnen. - Nimm ein Stück Himmel mit nach Hause.
Old German helmets from the last wars are here, creating a strange forest of their own, with PIECES OF SKY in each one of them. - Take home a piece of sky.
SCHATTEN / SHADOWS
Drei Realitätsebenen werden gleichzeitig gezeigt, indem sie sich gegenseitig überlagern und zu einer Realität werden. Die erste Ebene ist das, was in der Welt geschieht. Die zweite Schicht sind die Menschen, die Schatten sind. Die dritte Schicht bist DU, der steht, geht und die beiden Schichten beobachtet und Teil dieser Realität wird.
Three layers of reality are being shown simultaneously, by overlapping each other and becoming one reality. The first layer is what is happening in the world. The second layer is people who are shadows. The third layer is YOU, standing, walking and observing the two layers and becoming part of this reality.
HEIL / HEAL
Eine große Leinwand mit Rissen und Schnitten auf der Leinwand. Sie sind eingeladen, sich am Flicken der Risse und Schnitte zu beteiligen. Denken Sie daran, dass Sie sich selbst und die Welt flicken, während Sie sie flicken.
A large canvas with rips and cuts in the canvas. You are invited to take part in the mending the rips and cuts. Think that you are mending yourself and the world, as you mend.
EIN LOCH / A HOLE
Es ist ein Werk, bei dem man zweimal die Position wechseln muss, um es zu betrachten. Einmal von vorne, um sich selbst als Schütze zu sehen. Einmal von hinten, um sich selbst als denjenigen zu sehen, auf den geschossen wird.
It is a work which asks you to change your position twice to observe it. Once from the front to see yourself as the shooter. Once from the back to see yourself as the one being shot.
MANTEL / COATS
Ganz am Ende des Raumes hängen sieben Mäntel in einer Reihe, die alle den Personen gehören, die sie trugen, als sie aus nächster Nähe erschossen wurden. Gehen Sie durch die sieben Mäntel, um Ihren Schatten mit dem der anderen zu vermischen.
Seven coats hang at the very end of the room in a row, all belonging to people who were wearing the coats when they were shot point blank from close range. Walk through the seven coats to mix your shadows with theirs.
DER SCHREI / SCREAM
Ein Schrei durchschneidet den riesigen Raum, der mit Gewalt aus allen Ecken der Welt gefüllt ist. Es ist die Stimme der Seevögel namens Kittiwakes aus Gateshead in England. Die Geräusche der Kittiwakes sollen der Klang der "Seelen der verlorenen Kinder" sein. Dann hört man die Krähen und Zikaden aus Tokio zusammen schreien.
A scream cuts through the huge room filled with violence from all corners of the world. It’s a voice of the sea birds called Kittiwakes from Gateshead in England. The sounds of Kittiwakes are said to be the sound of the “The Souls of Lost Children.” Then you hear the crows and cicadas from Tokyo screaming together.
TAUSENDFÜSSLER / CENTIPEDES
Als Sie aufschauen, um den SCHREI zu hören, bemerken Sie riesige Tausendfüßler, die an der Wand krabbeln, und die Tatsache, dass die Größe aller Ereignisse im Raum im Verhältnis zu den Tausendfüßlern verschwindend gering ist. - Da wird Ihnen klar, dass der Raum, den Sie für die Weltkarte hielten, nur ein dunkles KELLERGESCHOSS DES TAUSENDFÜSSLERS war.
As you look up to listen to the SCREAM, you notice huge centipedes crawling on the wall, and the fact that the sizes of all happenings in the room are infintessimal in proportion to the centipedes. - You realize then that the room which you thought of as the Map of the World was only a darkish BASEMENT OF CENTIPEDES.
PASSAGEN FÜR LICHT / THE PASSAGE FOR LIGHT
Ganz am Ende des ersten Stocks gibt es einen kleinen Raum mit dem Titel PASSAGEN FÜR LICHT, der aus drei Veranstaltungen besteht.
There is a small room at the very end of the first floor called THE PASSAGE FOR LIGHT consisting of three events.
Das erste Werk trägt den Titel: / The first work is titled:
ERINNERTE GEWALT / MEMORY OF VIOLENCE
Neun Leinwände mit Stadtplänen von Berlin sind an der Wand zu sehen. Es sind Leinwände mit Stadtplänen von Berlin aus verschiedenen Epochen, der erste stammt aus dem Jahr 1890. - Sie werden gebeten, Ihre persönlichen Erinnerungen an Gewalt mitzubringen, wenn Sie DAS GIFT betreten.
Sie können sich an GEDENKEN DER GEWALT beteiligen, indem Sie ein Foto, einen Brief und/oder etwas Geschriebenes mitbringen und es an die Leinwände in der Zeit und an dem Ort in den Karten anheften, wo es Ihrer Meinung nach hingehört - vielleicht an einem Ort, an dem Sie einst gelebt haben, an dem Ihre Familie einst lebte oder an dem Sie eine besondere Erinnerung haben, die Sie mit uns teilen möchten. Da immer mehr Erinnerungen an Gewalt zu den Leinwänden hinzugefügt werden, ist es möglich, dass Ihre Erinnerung von den Erinnerungen anderer überdeckt wird.
Nine canvasses of maps of Berlin are on the wall. They are canvases of street maps of Berlin from different periods, the first one being from 1890. - You are asked to bring your personal memories of violence when you enter DAS GIFT.
You can participate in MEMORY OF VIOLENCE by bringing a photograph, a letter, and/or something you have written, and pinning them onto the canvases in the period and the place in the maps you feel they belong – perhaps in a location where you once lived, or where your family once lived, or where you have a particular memory you wish to share with us. As more and more memories of violence are added to the canvases, it’s possible that your memory may be covered by memories of others.
Das zweite Werk von DIE PASSAGE FÜR LICHT ist
The second work in THE PASSAGE FOR LIGHT is
SAMEN / SEEDS
Auf dem Boden dieses Raumes DIE PASSAGE FÜR LICHT liegen Mullkugeln mit Grapefruitkernen darin. - Sie sind eingeladen, immer mehr Gaze um diese Kerne zu wickeln, bis die Kugeln so groß werden, dass sie nicht mehr aus dem Raum herauskommen.
Balls made of gauze with grapefruit seeds in them are on the floor of this room THE PASSAGE FOR LIGHT. - You are invited to continue to wrap more gauze around these seeds until the balls become so large that they cannot get out of the room.
Das dritte Werk von THE PASSAGE FOR LIGHT ist
The third work in THE PASSAGE FOR LIGHT is
ZERSCHLAGENES KRISTALL / SHATTERED GLASS
Fegen Sie den Raum mit einem Besen.
Sweep the room with a broom.
***** Zweite Etage / Second Floor *****
Der letzte Raum der Ausstellung, der sich direkt über dem GEDÄCHTNIS DER GEWALT befindet, ist…
The last room in the show, which is a room right above the MEMORY OF VIOLENCE, is…
BERLINER LÄCHELN / BERLIN SMILE
Setzen Sie sich auf den dafür vorgesehenen Stuhl vor die Kamera und schenken Sie der Welt Ihr Lächeln aus Berlin. Ihr Lächeln wird sich zu anderen Lächeln aus anderen Städten und Ländern gesellen, indem es ins Internet gestellt und in meinem Archiv aufbewahrt wird, damit es bei jeder Gelegenheit gezeigt werden kann. Es ist eine Petition für den Frieden.
Sit on the designated chair in front of the camera, and give your smile to the world from Berlin. Your smile will join other smiles from other cities and countries, by being sent out on the internet, and being also preserved in my archive to be shown whenever there is a chance. It is a petition for peace.
From the website:
Add Color (Refugee Boat) (1960/2019) is an interactive installation conceived of by visual artist Yoko Ono. Upon opening, the work will be comprised simply of a boat placed within an empty space. The public will then be invited to paint their thoughts, ideas and hopes on the walls, floor and boat. As the installation progresses, messages will be written in support, contrast and literal obfuscation of one another, moving the space from visual calm to a layered visual chaos – a beautiful sea of color from afar, a more restless reality upon closer inspection. Freely imbued in this way with a multiplicity of thoughts, each time Add Color (Refugee Boat) is shown it both shares in the memory of past iterations, while taking on a life and a meaning of its own - acutely reflecting the time, place and people that come together to create it.
Les Wish Trees de Yoko Ono portent leur message collectif de paix, de désir et d’espoir dans le Forum du Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Tate visit
If you cut a hole in a postcard and view this photograph through it, you will see a work of art.
N.B. Pre-cut postcards are available from the 'Tate Yoko Store' for £2.50
"Every drop in the ocean counts"
Yoko is my 15-year old Lilac Oriental. She has an amazing personality and here she is sleeping in the sun.
Reykjavík, Iceland. Statue of settler Ingólfur Arnarson with Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower in the background.
...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.
(Yoko Ono)
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this is the most alive i've ever seen this tree.
"as a child in japan, i used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people's wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar."
-yoko ono
from the same day as this
This is my first photo to get into the Explore section :) I´m over the moon, thanx everyone!
Imagine Peace Tower, a memorial to John Lennon from his widow, Yoko Ono and is located on Viðey Island near Reykjavík, Iceland.
Finally, I can show you this photo. The BBC didnt use as many of the pics as I had hoped, as they didnt put up the 'In Pictures' gallery of shots with the news article. However, they used three shots of mine and the whole experience was amazing. But I didnt want to put this pic on here until the BBC piece had been published.
I had 60-seconds to take this shot. It was in a very normal and uninspiring hotel room and my thanks particularly go to the lighting-cameraman for the video, Jeff, for setting up such nice lighting.
Yoko Ono herself was a lovely, sweet lady and amazing for a 75 year-old.
Full story and a slideshow of about 47 shots from the Beatles tribute gig, this one of Yoko and the shots I took at the John Lennon Museum, on my Japanorama site:
japanorama.co.uk/2008/12/10/yoko-ono-in-tokyo-john-lennon...
Nikon D300
85mm f/1.4 AF D @ f/1.4 [thank god for the 85!!]
Kunstwerk van Yoko Ono . 100 stuks rudimentaire doodskisten - groot en klein - staan opgesteld in deze ruimte . in elke kist een citrusboompje .
thanks for all your visits, favs or comments .
John Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980, aged 40, and the world lost one of its brightest lights. Calgary is fortunate to have an exhibit here of the work of Yoko Ono, his widow, as well as material that she and John did together.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) --
Yoko Ono urged the world to give peace a chance with the unveiling Tuesday of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy island on what would have been husband John Lennon's 67th birthday.
The former Beatle was shot dead outside their New York apartment building Dec. 8, 1980, by deranged fan Mark David Chapman.
Ono was to be joined at the ceremony by the couple's son, Sean Lennon; Beatles drummer Ringo Starr; and bandmate George Harrison's widow, Olivia. Paul McCartney also was invited, but it wasn't known whether he would attend.
The tower is a stories-tall beam of light that will radiate from a wishing well bearing the words "imagine peace" in 24 languages. The plan is for the tower to be lit each year between Oct. 9 and Dec. 8.
Ono, 74, has said that she came up with the concept for the light tower in 1965, and that Lennon was interested.
"This is the biggest birthday present I gave to John," she told The Associated Press last month. "He's very, very happy about it, I know."
Ono said she chose Iceland, the world's northernmost country, because it is a very eco-friendly country that relies on geothermal energy.
"It's so beautiful," she said. "There's a certain strangeness to it. I would like to say it's magical."
[By the Associated Press, October 9, 2007]