Cut Piece
performance art by Ono
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discussed in biography
- In Yoko Ono: Cut Piece, Bottoms, and other projects from the 1960s
For the performance piece Cut Piece (1964), she sat passively while an audience, at her invitation, used scissors to cut off parts of the dress she wore; with its connotations of sexual violence, the work was later recognized as a landmark of feminist art. In 1966 Ono relocated to…
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