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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. It is one of the earliest and most significant works of the feminist art movement and Fluxus .
May 18, 2015 · To mark her MoMA show, we examine the moment the artist invited her audience to cut off her clothes. Walking up onto a concert hall stage and snipping the clothes from a 31-year-old, passive female artist is a provocative act, even 50 after Yoko Ono staged such a performance.
Cut Piece (1964) performed by Yoko Ono in New Works of Yoko Ono, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, March 21, 1965. Photo: Minoru Niizuma.
At turns poetic, humorous, unsettling, and idealistic, Ono’s early instruction pieces anticipated her later work, such as Cut Piece (1964), a performance in which people were invited to cut away portions of her clothing; Sky Machine (1966), a sculpture that speaks to her environmental concerns; and To See the Sky (2015), a spiral staircase ...
Jun 19, 2015 · “Cut Piece involves three interlinking gestures,” she writes, “the invitation, the sacrifice, and the souvenir.” By soliciting audience participation, Ono invites them to collude with her and asserts her own control over the situation.
Dec 5, 2023 · On July 20,1964, then-31-year-old Japanese artist Yoko Ono did exactly this in Kyoto’s Yamaichi Concert Hall as part of her performance art piece Cut Piece.
Feb 18, 2017 · Ono’s Cut Piece was the first performance piece to address the potential for sexual violence in public spectacle. It is also among the first examples of Performance Art. During the sixties, Ono gravitated toward the circles of artists participating in “happenings,” and held events at her own loft at 112 Chambers Street in New York City.
Experience Yoko Ono's captivating performance of Cut Piece at the renowned Carnegie Hall. Watch as the fearless artist, adorned in her finest attire, sits alone on stage with a pair of...
May 13, 2021 · Yoko Ono. Date: Jan 1 1964. Location: Kyoto, Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan. In Cut Piece—one of Yoko Ono’s early performance works—the artist sat alone on a stage, dressed in her best suit, with a pair of scissors in front of her.
Yoko Ono «Cut Piece» Ono’s work related destruction to interpersonal, often intimate, human relations. This element was particularly thought-provoking in ‹Cut Piece›, one of many actions she did as DIAS [Destruction in Art Symposium]. Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan, and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965.
