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thepastisalreadywritten

A kaleidoscope of colour. Cars and buses whirl through Piccadilly Circus in London, 1960s.

Source: x.com

#Piccadilly Circus #London #cars #buses #1960s #20th century

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ceofyokoono

Cut Piece, Yoko Ono (1964) Cut Piece 1964 is a pioneer of performance art and participatory work first performed by Yoko Ono on July 20, 1964, at the Yamaichi Concert Hall in Kyoto Japan. New York, March 21, 1965. Photo: Minoru Niizuma. Curator, Christophe Cherix: In Cut Piece, members of the audience were invited to approach and cut away pieces of Ono's clothing, as she knelt silently on a stage. Yoko Ono: When I do the Cut Piece, I get into a trance, and so I don't feel too frightened. In one of her early interviews, she said, "It was a form of giving, giving and taking. It was a kind of criticism against artists, who are always giving what they want to give. I wanted people to take whatever they wanted to, so it was very important to say you can cut wherever you want to".

#art #performance art #yoko ono #1960s #cut piece #back and white #animation #feminism #passive objectification #feminist art movement #participatory art #performer and audience #photomontage #fluxus #wikipedia #eva gallagher #boston university #photography

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diana-andraste

Cut Piece, Yoko Ono, 1964

"The audience took turns walking up to her on stage and joining her performance, cutting off pieces of her clothing with scissors. Her expression was kept poised and silenced while her body remained motionless. For the final stage of the performance, her body was fully exposed. The audience walked down the steps clutching the remnants of her clothes and they were allowed to keep these pieces with them." Wikipedia

"Ono reaffirms that the sensations of discomfort and intimacy are mutual, shared by both artist and participant.

By means of live audience interaction, the participatory nature of Cut Piece...reveal[s] the degree to which Ono engages in this passive objectification of both the female body and her physical self, highlighting the loss of agency that accompanies touch and female nudity in the public eye."

Eva Gallagher, Boston University

9 minute performance video at the link