Via Smithsonian mag:
“Music of the Mind” presents more than 200 works from seven decades of Ono’s career, from her early avant-garde creations to large-scale installations from recent decades, making it one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of her work ever.
“The exhibition will really open a lot of eyes, so people will realize how much Yoko Ono has done for the arts,” Tatsu Aoki, a Chicago-based musician and filmmaker who has collaborated with Ono, tells Chicago magazine’s Web Behrens.
...“Music of the Mind” unfolds mostly chronologically. It includes many of Ono’s iconic, provocative early works, such as Cut Piece, Ono’s 1964 performance in which she invited her audience to cut away pieces of her clothing as she knelt on the ground. The exhibition also features a screening of Fly, a short film Ono directed and scored with Lennon that shows a housefly crawling around a woman’s naked body, and of Film No. 4 (Bottoms), an 80-minute film that presents a “procession of nude bottoms of every shape, sway and swagger,” as the Museum of Modern Art describes it. The film got an X rating from the British Board of Film Censors in 1967, giving it even more media attention.
The exhibition features a number of Ono’s “participatory instruction” works, which allow visitors to take part directly in her art, according to a statement from the museum. “Something that’s central to Ono’s work is that she gives permission,” Korina Hernandez, a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art, tells Axios’ Carrie Shepherd. “So here you have permission to really engage her creativity and engage with her work in a way that you usually can’t in museums.”
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