Joy – Dance / Performance In Cut Piece , an early piece of feminist art first staged in 1964, Yoko Ono knelt on the ground and laid down a pair of scissors. The audience were invited to come forward and cut off any piece of her clothing. It started politely but became more and more threatening as her clothes http://www.bbc .co.uk/news/wo rld-radio-and- tv-18959341 Two new series of portraits will be on display in ‘Martin Creed’. For the ‘Jumping Portraits’ series, the artist fixed a piece of cardstock high upon a wall. With his paintbrush in hand, he jumped to reach his canvas and paint his mark, repeating the action and continuing the cycle until a portrait was completed. The artist has also created a new series of ‘Blind Portraits’, created by looking only at his subject and never down at his own work in progress. Using such Yoko Ono – Cut Piece Yves Klein Martin Creed
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Joy – Dance / Performance
In Cut Piece, an early piece of feminist art first staged in 1964, Yoko Ono knelt on the ground and laid down a pair of scissors. The audience were invited to come forward and cut off any piece of her clothing. It started politely but became more and more threatening as her clothes were reduced to rags and she kneeled in her underwear.
Two new series of portraits will be on display in ‘Martin Creed’. For the ‘Jumping Portraits’ series, the artist fixed a piece of cardstock high upon a wall. With his paintbrush in hand, he jumped to reach his canvas and paint his mark, repeating the action and continuing the cycle until a portrait was completed. The artist has also created a new series of ‘Blind Portraits’, created by looking only at his subject and never down at his own work in progress. Using such systems to rigorously abdicate from the need for aesthetic decision-making, Creed opens his work to moments of chance and spontaneity.
You Are Now Becoming Who You Are To Be (2004), a non-interactive work by Holly Andres. That work consists of a video of a young woman projected upon a bed. She shifts around on the bed and her silk chemise slowly changes from white to red.
A prayer flag is a colorful rectangular cloth, often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas. They are used to bless the surrounding countryside and for other purposes. Prayer flags are believed to have originated with Bon, which predated Buddhism in Tibet. In Bon, shamanistic Bonpo used primary-colored plain flags in healing ceremonies in Nepal. They are unknown in other branches of Buddhism.[1] Traditional prayer flags include woodblock-printed text and images
