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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 · Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece explained. 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.
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Cut Piece (1964) performed by Yoko Ono in New Works of Yoko Ono, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, March 21, 1965. Photo: Minoru Niizuma. Courtesy of Yoko Ono. © Minoru Niizuma 2015. 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.
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 · Yoko Ono’s iconic work of performance art “Cut Piece” was recently re-enacted by musician Peaches. By: Erin Blakemore. June 19, 2015. 2 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The young woman sits on the floor of the stage, dressed in her sober street clothes.
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.
