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yoko ono

I've been reading eyeteeth. here is a post on a bit of Yoko Ono's art, 'Cut Piece':

Considering the time (1964), Ono's gender and Japanese heritage, the work is, to me, profound and frightening, conjuring thoughts about sacrifice, the outward manifestations of power and class, and the very real possibility of a simmering deviance beneath the surface of our culture...

a movie of the 1965 performance (the first was in 1964)

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