A blog dedicated to Yoko Ono.
By Cara (thecurvature)
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Fuck Yeah John & Yoko
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'I'm a good arranger – according to me' | Music | The Observer →
Hi, Yoko! What do you have planned for Meltdown?
I’m very excited. I was in Meltdown before, invited by Patti Smith, but that’s very different from when you have to arrange things yourself. And I’m a good arranger – according to me. I would like to make it something refreshing, not about pursuing big names, more about a concept. A strong corner on women, feminism and the plight of women. I think all women are icons of feminism and we have responsibility for ourselves. But I’m happy to give one or two nights where I ask men to say something about themselves.….
You’re 80 next year – how will you celebrate?
I’m celebrating every day, in a way. It’s not very easy to be my age, but I’m not very concerned about age. After sexism and racism, which I fought, now there’s ageism – something more to fight about. I don’t do very much exercise, but I do like to walk. Food-wise, sometimes I’m very good and sometimes I’m very naughty – chocolate is what I like. Don’t be discouraged by society saying, “Oh, you’re going to be 40; that’s too bad.” We all carry our own age. I will put my feet up when I’m in a coffin, but until then I will do my best to have a full life.
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An often expressed doubt surrounding Ono is that the peace-and-love mantra she expresses through her art and through her activism can look like a relic of a lost time, a statement stuck in the era of the 1960s.
For example, her Wish Tree, which she has instigated in various locations and will appear outside the Serpentine this summer, is a tree on which members of the public are invited to attach labels on which they have scribbled their wishes.
Bracewell, who believes Ono has suffered from “a sexist and racist response to her from people who regarded her as a giggling, inscrutable Japanese woman who had stolen one of our national treasures”, argues that to regard such works as childish is unfair.
“Why would we have a problem with Yoko doing peace and love when we are quite happy for the Beatles to sing All You Need Is Love?” he says.
Source: imaginepeace.com
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The Guardian profile: Yoko Ono
The most famous thing anyone ever said about Yoko Ono was, inevitably, said by John Lennon, and for years it held true. He called her “the world’s most famous unknown artist, everyone knows her name, but no one knows what she actually does”.
As the artist, musician, film-maker and peace activist nears 80, that could be changing. After decades demonised as the witch who destroyed the Beatles she is emerging from the shadow of that complicated personal history.
Since a groundbreaking exhibition in New York in 2001 re-established her reputation, she has come back into focus as a significant artist, winning the accolade of the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2009 Venice Biennale. New generations of artists have discovered her as an inspirational figure.
Basement Jaxx, Flaming Lips and Lady Gaga have collaborated with her in recent years. Younger visual artists as different as Jeff Koons, Pipilotti Rist and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster cite her as an influence; the photographer and film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood even jokingly calls herself an “obsessed fan”.
This summer the artist – a tiny figure, usually to be seen wearing trademark sunglasses and hat – will be the focus of a retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
Source: imaginepeace.com
