23. “I had always wanted to produce work without ego in it.
I was thinking of this motif more and more, and the result
was Cut Piece. ”
“Instead of giving the audience what the artist chooses to
give, the artist gives what the audience chooses to take.”
“Cut Piece is about freeing yourself from yourself”
ビジネススクールの石碑。恐れずにまず、何でもやってみよう。そして新しい時代を切り開こう。
Social Changeとというコンセプトがキャンパスにあふれている気がする。
社会批判をしている。どんな社会批判をしているか。His current project, Degrees of Visibility, is a large body of landscape photographs from throughout the fifty U.S. states and territories, documenting spaces in which prisons sit from publicly available points of view — looking at how prisons are presented and camouflaged within our everyday perception, forming a part of an aesthetics of mass incarceration(大量投獄).
Questioning the limits of what a photograph can, by itself, describe, each image is titled by the number of people who are imprisoned within the landscape but are concealed from the camera’s lens, sometimes accompanied by a document or object that offers an additional description of the space. The images focus less upon what each prison looks like and more upon how they are made visible to or concealed from the public, sitting among different forms of land use, economic and political geographies, and the histories of control and rebellion they conceal.
社会批判をしている。どんな社会批判をしているか。His current project, Degrees of Visibility, is a large body of landscape photographs from throughout the fifty U.S. states and territories, documenting spaces in which prisons sit from publicly available points of view — looking at how prisons are presented and camouflaged within our everyday perception, forming a part of an aesthetics of mass incarceration(大量投獄).
Questioning the limits of what a photograph can, by itself, describe, each image is titled by the number of people who are imprisoned within the landscape but are concealed from the camera’s lens, sometimes accompanied by a document or object that offers an additional description of the space. The images focus less upon what each prison looks like and more upon how they are made visible to or concealed from the public, sitting among different forms of land use, economic and political geographies, and the histories of control and rebellion they conceal.
社会批判をしている。どんな社会批判をしているか。His current project, Degrees of Visibility, is a large body of landscape photographs from throughout the fifty U.S. states and territories, documenting spaces in which prisons sit from publicly available points of view — looking at how prisons are presented and camouflaged within our everyday perception, forming a part of an aesthetics of mass incarceration(大量投獄).
Questioning the limits of what a photograph can, by itself, describe, each image is titled by the number of people who are imprisoned within the landscape but are concealed from the camera’s lens, sometimes accompanied by a document or object that offers an additional description of the space. The images focus less upon what each prison looks like and more upon how they are made visible to or concealed from the public, sitting among different forms of land use, economic and political geographies, and the histories of control and rebellion they conceal.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/confronting-americas-shameful-mass-incarceration-with-performance-art
社会批判をしている。どんな社会批判をしているか。His current project, Degrees of Visibility, is a large body of landscape photographs from throughout the fifty U.S. states and territories, documenting spaces in which prisons sit from publicly available points of view — looking at how prisons are presented and camouflaged within our everyday perception, forming a part of an aesthetics of mass incarceration(大量投獄).
Questioning the limits of what a photograph can, by itself, describe, each image is titled by the number of people who are imprisoned within the landscape but are concealed from the camera’s lens, sometimes accompanied by a document or object that offers an additional description of the space. The images focus less upon what each prison looks like and more upon how they are made visible to or concealed from the public, sitting among different forms of land use, economic and political geographies, and the histories of control and rebellion they conceal.
社会批判をしている。どんな社会批判をしているか。His current project, Degrees of Visibility, is a large body of landscape photographs from throughout the fifty U.S. states and territories, documenting spaces in which prisons sit from publicly available points of view — looking at how prisons are presented and camouflaged within our everyday perception, forming a part of an aesthetics of mass incarceration(大量投獄).
Questioning the limits of what a photograph can, by itself, describe, each image is titled by the number of people who are imprisoned within the landscape but are concealed from the camera’s lens, sometimes accompanied by a document or object that offers an additional description of the space. The images focus less upon what each prison looks like and more upon how they are made visible to or concealed from the public, sitting among different forms of land use, economic and political geographies, and the histories of control and rebellion they conceal.
社会批判をしている。どんな社会批判をしているか。His current project, Degrees of Visibility, is a large body of landscape photographs from throughout the fifty U.S. states and territories, documenting spaces in which prisons sit from publicly available points of view — looking at how prisons are presented and camouflaged within our everyday perception, forming a part of an aesthetics of mass incarceration(大量投獄).
Questioning the limits of what a photograph can, by itself, describe, each image is titled by the number of people who are imprisoned within the landscape but are concealed from the camera’s lens, sometimes accompanied by a document or object that offers an additional description of the space. The images focus less upon what each prison looks like and more upon how they are made visible to or concealed from the public, sitting among different forms of land use, economic and political geographies, and the histories of control and rebellion they conceal.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/confronting-americas-shameful-mass-incarceration-with-performance-art
SHOW & TELLだけではない。わかっていても、それぞれのインパクトのある写真で学ぶと違う。
デザインとアートを混同しているためです。デザインとアートの間には、決定的な違いあります。それこそ”Design solves a problem, art is expression”(デザインとは問題解決であり、アートとは自己表現である。)というものです。
ここから言えることは、Why?をBecauseで説明出来なければ、それは明らかにデザインではないということなのです。何となく、個人的に好きだから、感覚で、といった理由を述べた時点でそれはアート(自己表現)であり、デザイン(問題解決)ではありません。それは言い換えると、問題と向き合い、それを解決する中で生まれたモノのみがデザインであるということでもあります。では一体どういった要素や原則を元に、デザイナー達はロジックを組み立てるのでしょうか。
(Lyn)
Before NYC, Ono had previously performed the piece twice in Japan where—with the exception of one man who wielded the scissors as if intending to stab her—audiences proved reticent and respectful.
London: Performed with Anthony Cox (American Filmmaker and Partner at the time) more of a collaboration than a solo piece
Yoko Ono was at the age of 70.
Thirty – nine years after her first performance of the work, she told Reuters News Agency that she did it “against ageism, against racism, against sexism, and against violence.”高齢者差別、年齢主義、暴力、性差別、人種差別
About the piece Yoko Ono says: “In the 1960s I did it out of anger.” As if taking all the violence of the world upon her. But of her last performance in 2003, Yoko Ono says :”Following the political changes through the year after 9/11, I felt terribly vulnerable — like the most delicate wind could bring me tears, (…) Cut Piece is my hope for world peace.”
INTENTIONALITY:
-her intentions (change between 1960’s and 2003 reenactment)
-her body in the way others read her intentions (feminism? Her body and outward identities?
-other performer’s intentions
(jorge artajo: LGBT VISUALITY performance; man under pink dress, face covered → commentary on gender and sexuality)
Originally performed in the 1960’s out of anger; she was internalizing the violence in the world. 2003 performance was instead a hope for world peace; she did it as a way to give positivity to the violence in the world--she added a portion of asking people to not only take the piece of fabric home as a souvenir, but also to give the piece of fabric to another person as a gift. In a recent interview, she says that in her 1960’s performances she sees innocence, but in the 2003 performance she sees someone who went through a shocking life.
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[[Has stage instructions, using “he/him”; what kind of freedom does this allow for? How would it be different is people just watched her performance, then decided to reenact?]]