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Cut Piece

performance artist: Yoko Ono (American, 1933-)
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/2853
Description
"Ono's Cut Piece, in which she sat motionless on stage in traditional Japanese feminine position with a large pair of scissors at her side, consisted of having members of the audience cut off her clothes until she was left practically naked, her face a blank mask."
 
full view, performance at Yamaichi Concert Hall, Kyoto, Japan
 
Type of Work
Performance art
Subject
Performance art, Etiquette, Abused women, Modesty, Feminism in art, Fluxus (Group of artists), Violence, Chance
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