Dec 5, 2023 · Imagine being so open to vulnerability, that you would voluntarily sit on stage dressed in your best outfit and invite audience members to come on stage and cut out pieces of your clothing. 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 wore one of her best suits and knelt on the stage holding a pair of scissors. She invited audience members to cut pieces of her clothing off using the scissors. The artist remained still and silent until she was down to only her underwear.

Lennon and Ono climbed into a large white bag on stage, sat cross-legged, knee-to-knee, hunkered down and closed the bag. They moved only twice in 45 minutes, hunkering further down. This was a strong challenge to the audience.

In her book Grapefruit, Ono notes she usually performs the piece herself, sitting on a stage with scissors, inviting an audience to "cut a portion of her clothing (anywhere they like) and take it." Many have ascribed feminist and anti-war meanings …

It is usually performed by Yoko Ono coming on the stage and in a sitting position, placing a pair of scissors in front of her and asking the audience to come up on the stage, one by one, and cut a portion of her clothing (anywhere they like) and take it.

Dec 6, 2017 · Ono kneels on an empty stage with a pair of scissors in front of her. She says nothing except to outline the parameters of the performance- the audience members are welcome to come on stage one by one, cut off any piece of her clothing and take the piece back to their seat as a souvenir; the ending of the performance is decided by Ono in the ...

May 13, 2021 · 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. The audience had been instructed that they

Sep 21, 2024 · And while we’ve already established that describing the art after the fact is far less powerful than experiencing it in real time, here’s what the audience would have seen: Ono, thirty-one years old, dressed in a black suit, sits down in the middle of an otherwise empty stage.

In these first performances by Ono, the artist sat kneeling on the concert hall stage, wearing her best suit of clothing, with a pair of scissors placed on the floor in front of her. Members of the audience were invited to approach the stage, one at a time, and cut a bit of her clothes off-which they were allowed to keep. The score for

Yoko Ono | 1965 Albert Maysles + David Maysles Performed on March 21, 1965 at Carnegie Recital Hall, New York. Yoko Ono sits motionless on the concert hall stage,…