Performance art involves the body in one way or another. Moving, expressing yourself through dance or through other means such as using your voice or putting your body on display. It can also include asking the audience to participate and get involved within the work, sometimes knowingly and sometimes unknowingly.
Performance art instructions:
Create a QR code that takes you to a google form
Have people write in their favorite songs (songs that are meaningful/songs that cause rage/ songs that call for change/ songs that people have to really listen to understand)
Make a playlist of those songs and play it out on a speaker somewhere crowded
Yoko Ono- A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist and Fighter
"The “pre-Lennon” phase in Ono’s artworks encouraged a Zen-like dissolution of thought, and after she met the love of her life, she began shifting towards a greater campaign for peace, using not only galleries but the mass media as well."
I am a big believer in surrounding yourself with people who will support you and who will help you grow and be a better version of yourself. I think it is really nice that Lennon and Ono inspired one another and I think it is so cool that her shift in her art for peace went so far into the real world and not just in galleries. Lennon and Ono had billboards and the media attention to help try to get people to join their cause. It is really intriguing how things go from one place to another.
"Her style often included “dematerialization of the art object,”...the practice of turning away from objects and towards ideas...Ono created artworks that could exist in a variety of idea-oriented context"
I think that Yoko Ono being able to go against the normal and being able to have all of these dynamic artworks is very unique. It would have never occurred to me to do some of the things she has done within her own work- like Cut Piece or like writing instructions to follow.
Interview with Shaun Leonardo - Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy
"I do equate that stubbornness and conviction with the same work ethic that my parents filled me with, but to this day, I don’t understand how I never felt that the historical art canon could not be achieved simply because of my ethnicity or color. That was never a blockage for me, psychologically."
This is a great way to think about things. I was always told growing up that I could do whatever I wanted to do and be whatever I wanted to be as long as I put my mind to it. I think having the stubbornness and having the confidence to be able to tell yourself that you can do what those other people can do only challenges you to grow and be able to work harder so you can achieve the things you wish to achieve in your life.
"For a white student, particularly a young white student, seeing the mode of expression of an artist of color can shift as much of their worldview as it does for a student of color."
I think that this is actually really important because I never thought of the fact that essentially all I was exposed to by going to museums and what have you that I was really only being exposed to western art made by white men. I have been exposed to a great deal of artists who come from many different cultural backgrounds and so many artists of color while being in such a diverse school. I know when I see the art that is made by people of color, and people within different cultural backgrounds that it helps me better understand their struggles, even though I won't ever know the struggle for myself.
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