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The Second Performance was held in Tokyo at Sogetsu Kaikan Hall on August 11, 1964, again performing with Tony Cox and fellow Fluxus artist Jeff Perkins, for the Yoko Ono Farewell Concert: Strpiptease Show. [8] Also listed on the program was Sproutmotional Whisper as well as an advertisement for her new book Grapefruit. [8]
Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 洋子, romanized: Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. [1] Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family.
In Tokyo Japan 1964 Yoko Ono, a nonconformist to the Fluxus community, [69] independently published her artist’s book Grapefruit. [70] The book’s text itself encompassing event scores and other forms of participatory art. [71] An event score from the book: Cloud Piece [72] Imagine the clouds dripping. Dig a hole in your garden to put them in.
Fluxus 1, 1964.This copy in the Archiv Sohm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Fluxus 1 is an artists' book edited and produced by the Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas, containing works by a series of artists associated with Fluxus, the international collective of avant-garde artists primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ono first became known as part of the avant-garde Fluxus movement of the 1960s, then reached international fame after meeting John Lennon, to whom she was married from 1969 until his death, in 1980.
The Plastic Ono Band was a rock band and Fluxus-based artist collective [1] formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1968-9 for their collaborative musical and sound art projects, films, conceptual art projects and eventual solo LPs.
From April 18 to June 12, 1970, Yoko Ono and John Lennon (aka Plastic Ono Band) presented a series of Fluxus art events and concerts at the Tone Deaf Music Store called GRAPEFRUIT FLUXBANQUET. It was promoted with a poster designed by Fluxus leader George Maciunas .
Fluxus wanted to put the audience at the heart of their work – Ono’s 1964 performance “Cut Piece” did exactly that, and won her recognition as a name to watch, too.