Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom
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Yoko Ono: GROWING FREEDOM
The instructions of Yoko Ono
The art of John and Yoko
Yoko Ono (b. 1933) is a pioneering, visionary artist with a career that spans over sixty years. She has been associated with Conceptual art, performance, Fluxus, and happenings of the 1960s, and is one of very few women to have participated in these movements.
This major exhibition will underscore the cornerstones of action, participation, and imagination in the work of Yoko Ono. The instructions of Yoko Ono, will focus on her ‘instruction’ works that emphasize the role of the visitor in their completion. Among works to be presented are text-based instructions, as well as participatory works including MEND PIECE (1966), HORIZONTAL MEMORY (1997), and ARISING (2013). The second part of the exhibition, The art of John and Yoko, will present an arc of collaborative art projects for peace undertaken by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Among these is the ACORN PEACE, the WAR IS OVER! Peace Campaign, and the Montreal BED-IN FOR PEACE, which marked its fifty-year anniversary on May 26, 2019.
This exhibition is organized by the Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran & Cheryl Sim and is touring to Contemporary Calgary, Vancouver Art Gallery and Kunsthalle Amsterdam.
IMAGINE
Starring and Directed by John & Yoko
October 8 & 9, 2020 | 7PM
Duration: 1h 8m
To honour and celebrate John Lennon on what would have been his 80th birthday on October 8, 2020 we invite you for a special screening of Imagine, the ground-breaking music film directed by John & Yoko.
In 1971, during and after the recording of the Imagine album, John Lennon & Yoko Ono filmed all the proceedings at their Tittenhurst home and studio, their journeys to London and New York, and created a conceptual film also called Imagine, edited to a soundtrack created from their albums, Imagine and FLY. Remastered frame-by-frame from the original film negative, and remixed from all the original multitrack audio sources in glorious 7.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos (for theatres) by multi-Grammy® Award winner Paul Hicks, this collage of colour, sound, dream and reality stars John Lennon and Yoko Ono with George Harrison, Fred Astaire, Jack Nicholson, Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett and many more.
The film will be accompanied by exclusive cinema-only bonus footage featuring John Lennon performing tracks in the studio with The Plastic Ono Band: George Harrison from The Beatles, Nicky Hopkins from The Rolling Stones, Alan White from Yes, and dear friend Klaus Voormann.
A $10 admission fee applies, with late night access to the exhibition GROWING FREEDOM: The Instructions of Yoko Ono and the Art of John and Yoko.
Yoko Ono: Arising—A Call
Yoko Ono, "Arising—A Call," 2020
SUBMISSION DETAILS
ARISING is an ongoing project. The deadline for submissions is open.
Post your testaments and photographs of your eyes by mail to:
ARISING
℅ Contemporary Calgary
701 Eleventh Street SW
Calgary AB T2P 2C4
or email to
yoko@contemporarycalgary.com