Friday, August 10, 2007

WACK! & Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece"

i've been reading this book,



feminist art is a realm of art that i've never been particularly interested in, nor read or learned about.. buuut this book was produced by a company who makes really attractive books and that, of course, drew me in. the book features a few pieces about yoko ono, someone who's artistic background (seperate from her work with late husband john lennon) i never knew much about either.


here's my inspiration for the day:



Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts at the moment of unbosoming. ‹Cut Piece› entailed a disrobing, a denouement of the reciprocity between exhibitionism and scopic desires, between victim and assailant, between sadist and masochist: and, as a heterosexual herself, Ono unveiled the gendered relationship of male and female subjects as objects for each other.

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