Performance Art Intervention - Ricky Ochoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ_EqU2auq4 (I can't get the video to be sent there)
Inner Imagination, Ricky Ochoa
Yoko Ono’s performance art - “Cut Piece”
Yoko Ono’s "Cut Piece" exposes the objectification of women globally. This groundbreaking artwork is
recognized as prophetic of feminist activism and performance art as a form. Its controversy stems from the public
exposure of how women are viewed in society by making the audience participate while Yoko Ono became the
audience.
Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s artwork - “Hair Piece, Bed Piece”
Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s artwork “Hair Piece, Bed Piece” is an anti-war sentiment that promotes peace and
attempts to end the Cold War. Lennon considers Yoko Ono to be the most important person, and they are married.
It also inspired Yoko Ono, after meeting the love of her life, to begin promoting peace using galleries and mass
media.
2 Quotes from Chapter 3
“The mark of a good leader is to train others to lead, give them the tools to succeed on their
own, and then get out of the way.”
“We frequently present others with ‘the facts,’ expecting these to speak for themselves. They
rarely do. People like to visualize ideas. Pictures help give a form to abstract theories, causes, and
grievances. Spectacles are a public way to draw a picture.”
2 Quotes from Chapter 4
“Culture is the operating system of humanity operates, we need to be able to hack the culture.”
“In truth, the spirit that guided the sculptor’s chisel did not come down from the heavens, but
rose out from the ground. The ideals expressed in the artwork were shaped by the everyday concerns
of the people who created, appreciated, and financed it.”
2 responses from Chapter 3
1. A great leader forms bonds with your comrades and helps them overcome their flaws
themselves. They, too, will lead others, help them overcome their flaws, and create a strong will for the
public to think for themselves. However, I wanted to test a theory of collective leadership that mixes
individualism and collectivism as a balance of wants and needs. From that solution, this would prevent
leader dependency, savior complexes, or martyr complexes.
2. This sentiment is why historical figures are remembered yet simultaneously come from everyday
people who rose from the ground up. Yet we treat them as gods born with this whole thing and destined
for greatness since the beginning. We should know that to worship a statue that already achieved
success is to remain ignorant of its capacity to make changes and inspire others to do so.
2 responses from Chapter 4
1. Our way of life comes from culture itself. We create it from our minds to better
understand the world logically. Yet, these are not universal truths because we are challenged by
experiences, contradictory evidence, and exploring the world beyond the surface level. That’s what
makes us human in the first place.
2. I always question historical figures, celebrities, or those who obtained wealth. We glorify
them as purely good and emulate their lifestyles to be like them. But from their experiences themselves,
they are human like us. They had to endure many tough challenges to make it there, yet they also
made unpleasant sacrifices to themselves. Historical figures like the Europeans built their riches and
wealth by hurting and dehumanizing others different from them. Celebrities built off their identity through
personas, wealth, and hedonistic lifestyles. I don’t glorify anyone at all.
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