yoko ono - a groundbreaking artist, activist and fighter behind the myth of her name
- being a week into their marriage, at the time, yoko ono and john lennon wanted to work on something to represent peace and equality. and they did just that; laying around just being with each other, and working together for the peace movement. even a week into their marriage, both wanted to put out something powerful.
quote 2: “As she explained, art represents a way of showing people how you can think, and even though some people think of it as a beautiful wallpaper that you can sell, Yoko Ono rather perceives it as a direct connection with activism. Her style often included “dematerialization of the art object,” which is a phrase that would only come to use when the art critic, Lucy Lippard employed it to talk about the practice of turning away from objects…”
- ono is right, art activism, specifically performance activism can represent the way activists think, act and feel. her art style has led people to misunderstand her as and artist and activist. people have been misled, mocked and even go out in a fit of rage, because of her artwork. but behind all that, ono was won many awards, and it shows how her art activism (or performance art) can be more than just art.
interview with shaun leonardo - performance, pedagogy, and philosophy
quote 1: “I am now the co-director of Recess, a nonprofit art organization that is centered on socially engaged practice and even more centered on practices that engage topics of social justice.”
- even if he is not working as a teacher, he mainly focuses on how the way he he shows is activism, and that is through his workshops. it’s a smart way to look at it, because his workshops are a mixture between a performance and practice, mixed into one. the way he sets up the workshops, serves as a platform for instruction and learning, is the performance itself. It doesn't result in a different output or product.
quote 2: “Those images will be static hand gestures, all generated by a performance-based workshop process with community members that self-identified as vulnerable when contemplating, or in the face of, those four freedoms. Through this workshop process, we looked at what a contemporary reinterpretation of those freedoms could be through the lives of those community members.”
- leonardo made his workshop more unique, even during covid, he wanted to give out something that was important to the community and it led to a collection of narratives in which participants of the workshops, discussed how they felt freedom was granted, or not, as well as how they live out those tales. this was performance art is performed and can be scanned and within the murals, the participants speak on freedom.
performance art can be actions that is performed or created by artists that is scripted, live, performed. performance art can be something else, for example a mural or a painting that’s based on movements. both yoko ono and shaun leonardo made performance art for the community, to let them know that they’re heard. for example, during covid, leonardo planned to create two monumental “murals” along with people from his workshop to speak on how freedom is afforded or no, but was shut down due to covid. yoko ono and john lennon’s performance art was called “bed-in for peace” a week into their marriage, they started to work on something non-violent; a protest against war, where they were in bed all day.
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