In performance art, Marina Abramovich, born in Yugoslavia in 1946, definitely topped the list, and her "Rhythm" series of works shocked the audience.
However, "bystanders are clear, authorities are fascinated", Abramovich's performance of "Rhythm 0" in Naples, Italy in 1974, the audience involved in its performance art showed their dark side, no one gave Abramović during the period of paralysis, only the carnival of the mob, and the work has become a classic model for anthropology, ethics, psychology and many other academic aspects.
The history of performance art is not very long, emerging in the 1950s and 1960s, it can be called an artistic performance, including time, place, the body of the performance artist, and the communication of the audience.
Born in Japan in February 1933, Yoko Ono was a girl who grew up in an aristocratic family, her ancestors were the great courtiers of Tachibana Muneshige, the daimyō of Yanagawa, Kyushu, Japan, and in the mid-1950s, Yoko Ono married the composer Ichiyanagi in New York, after which Yoko Ono soon became active in the avant-garde art scene in the United States.
Yoko Ono is best known for her performance work Slices, which she has performed many times, the first time in 1964 at the Carnegie Recital Hall in the United States: Yoko Ono kneels in front of scissors, is disposed of by the audience, and then her clothes are cut into pieces.
At the end, Yoko Ono felt very broken, because she grew up in Japan, this experience was very exciting for her, and no one in the audience cared about Yoko Ono's feelings during the performance, which also made her feel very tired.
But Yoko Ono seemed to have a soft spot for the work Slices, so in 1966 Yoko Ono performed her second performance in London, England, and before the performance said: "Come, cut my clothes anywhere; each person cut no larger than a postcard, and please give this fragment to anyone you love." ”
Similarly, even with a different audience, no one cared about Yoko Ono's feelings, but Yoko Ono met John Lennon, a member of the rock band "Beatles", and in March 1969, Yoko Ono married John Lennon, the first drug addict in the "Beatles".
The Beatles disbanded the following year, after John Lennon and another band member, Paul McCartney, accused each other's wives of overly interfering in the band's affairs, and after the band disbanded, Yoko Ono was also blamed by many fans as the culprit who led to the final dissolution of the Beatles.
On the evening of December 8, 1980, John Lennon was shot by fan Mark Chapman in front of the Dakota Building, and Yoko Ono became the first widow in the music industry, and was once again pushed to the cusp of the storm, but Yoko Ono never withdrew from the public eye.
In 2003, yoko Ono, 70, performed "Slices" again in Paris, France, again: "Come, cut my clothes anywhere; each person cut no larger than a postcard, and please give this fragment to anyone you love." ”
The whole performance is as good as the beginning, who would think of putting on a dress for Yoko Ono? But maybe Yoko Ono doesn't care either, she's a somewhat romantic person, so she performs this work everywhere.
Yoko Ono's interpretation of the work "Slices" is "just take", intended to arouse the consciousness of women.