In 1965, in the Carnegie Recital Hall, a young Oriental woman performed. I saw her sitting down on the stage and saying to the audience: "Come on, cut off my clothes, whatever you want." The audience was in an uproar, but no one moved.
Time passed quietly, and a minute, a minute, or two, a man took the stage, and he carefully cut a small piece of the woman's sleeve. Then another woman walked up to the stage and cut a piece from the collar of her tunics. Gradually, people's enthusiasm became higher and higher, and they came to the stage one after another, as if they were prankster children.
They began to cut the women's underwear, one cutting the left corset strap and the other cutting the right one. Her body was gradually exposed, and she was ashamed and angry, and hurriedly left the scene with her arms folded in front of her chest.
The woman's name is Yoko Ono. Through her performance art, she allows people to confront their inner suffering, struggles, and human vulnerability.
Her shocking performances caused a sensation in the art world. It turns out that there is a devil living inside everyone, and if you don't control it, it will run out and wreak havoc, exposing its obscene and dangerous side. Even the pretentious elites of high society are inevitable.
Yoko Ono was born in Japan in 1933 to parents who had a well-funded family. During the Erzhan period, Tokyo was bombed into ruins. The family hid in the countryside with the royal family to escape the bombing, but the poor did not like them. The stones fell on the heads of these pampered gentlemen and wives, and Yoko Ono was chased and laughed at by the poor children.
This experience of displacement and trauma, although it was not long, left a deep scar on Yoko Ono's psyche. Her artistic perspective began to become radical.
After the war, Yoko Ono returned to the aristocratic school to continue her studies, and she fell in love with philosophy. Later, he followed his banker father to the United States, where he studied Xi poetry and composition.
In 1956, Yoko Ono married her first husband, Megumi Ichiyanagi. The family believes that Yiliu Hui is an "inferior person" and resolutely disagrees with this marriage. But at this time, Yoko Ono was obsessed with avant-garde modern classics**, and she was with her lover despite the opposition of her family. They collaborated with avant-garde artists to create novel art forms.
In 1961, Yoko Ono came to the Carnegie Recitation Hall for the first time to perform, but failed miserably and was maliciously evaluated. Subsequently, her marriage to Yiliu Hui broke down. Yoko Ono is tormented by loneliness and despair, and she is forced to mentally **. It wasn't until her second husband appeared that she was able to live a stable and happy life again.
In early 1965, at the age of 32, Yoko Ono appeared on the stage of the Carnegie Recital Hall for the second time. This time, her performance "Slices" was a great success, but she was greatly embarrassed. The audience cut off her shame-covering clothes mercilessly, and their eyes lingered on her body.
She saw the evil of human nature. As a woman, if you don't protect yourself, who do you expect to protect you?She hopes that this performance can awaken women's awareness of self-protection and remind men to keep the bottom line of respect for women.
But the reality is that there is no such bottom line at all. Even if it is the so-called successful people who look well-dressed.
Yoko Ono looks like a demure and gentle woman, but her heart is warm and bold. In order to express his inner thoughts, he did not hesitate to appear naked in front of everyone.
In 2003, at the age of 70, Yoko Ono performed the same performance in Paris. She calmly invited the audience to join her in the performance.
Cut it casually, each person cut a small piece and give it to the lover. ”
This time, Yoko Ono was calm and calm, looking ahead. Instead of the anger and uneasiness she had when she performed for the first time, she was full of love for the whole world.
The scissors are a symbol of profiteering, and the pieces of clothes that are cut are completely different in terms of area, location, and shape, just as the love that each person gives and receives is unique.
2. Non-reproducible.
Yoko Ono, who was in her prime, wore a black gauze skirt and greeted the scissors from the male ** quietly like a fake dress model. Listening to the sound of scissors rubbing against the fabric, she felt like she was enjoying a wonderful **.
In 2015, Yoko Ono came to China, and she opened with a hysterical rant that has been seen in her previous records. She explained that it was a woman's shout, painful, happy, aggrieved — all kinds of yelling, representing different states of women's lives.
This is the maverick Yoko Ono.
She will put an alarm clock on the stage ** and make the audience wait until the alarm goes off. She made a movie of a fly and a woman with a luo body. She would have a group of people with cameras chase a strange woman to film, film her privacy, and watch her various reactions ......
She doesn't see herself as an old man, she still expresses herself energetically. Regardless of the voices of the outside world, she only wanders in her own world. She loves performance art. In other words, she has spent her life interpreting what performance art is.
Some say she is the best performance artist in the world, and some people abuse her in all sorts of ways.
In any case, we saw humanity in Yoko Ono and saw ourselves clearly.