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Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to Die
http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/yoko-ono-one-woman-show.html?_ga=1.70239251.286447546.1411751012-snip-
In Tokyo, in 1964, the 31-year-old conceptual artist Yoko Ono organized a happening in which she screened a Hollywood film and gave the audience a simple instruction: Do not look at Rock Hudson, look only at Doris Day.
Like most of the countercultural riddles that appear in Grapefruit, Onos book from the same year, the instruction titled Film Script 5 was at once facile and mischievously impossible. (Other variations on the piece include asking the audience not to look at any round objects in a film, or to see only red.) It was also, in its way, autobiographical: As one of the few women associated with New Yorks avant-garde music scene and the neo-Dada Fluxus movement, Ono was by then used to being overshadowed by the more powerful and self-serious men around her. (I wonder why men can get serious at all, she mused in Grapefruit. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will.) The year she first staged Film Script 5, shed already extricated herself from one failed marriage and her second was unraveling. She was still two years away from meeting the man with whom she would realize her dream of a completely egalitarian partnership to symbolize this, they both wore white during their wedding ceremony but the rest of the world wouldnt see it that way. They would, of course, see only the towering, superior Him what could he have possibly seen in Her?
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Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to Die (Original Post)
LiberalElite
May 2015
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ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)1. excellent article
About the most misunderstood artist, person really, in history.
msongs
(67,394 posts)2. while reading this article do not look at any words. wow I'm a conceptual artist now! nt
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)3. While reading this article, do not look at any periods.
That is harder than not looking at words.
Now, see? I'm a better artist than you are.