Yoko Ono's performance Cut Piece (1964) is anchored by the instructions Cut Piece that the artist had produced in 1962 and in 1966, where the concept of the work lies. The clothing the performer wears is equally an important component of the work, and its cutting is what activates it. ...
Cut Piece: The Art of Yoko Ono and the Law of Rape in the United StatesIn 1964, Yoko Ono performed Cut Piece in New York's Carnegie Hall. This performance art involved Ono sitting on a bare wood stage wearing dark stockings, a dresSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Performances such as Yoko Ono's Cut Piece (1964), Marina Abramovi's Rhythm 0 (1974) and Hannah Wilke's Super-T-Art (1974) implicated the viewer in an embodied relationship with the (un)dressed artist. In these works fabric was variously torn, bound, wrapped, folded and cut off the ...
Staged five times by Yoko Ono between 1964 and 1966, Cut Piece has been interpreted in a variety of ways, including an exploration of sadism/masochism and violence/victimization. It has also been discussed in terms of feminist discourses on the female body and the male gaze. By contrast, ...
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