Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist who is also known for his work in the performing and filming arts. She appeared in English and Japanese. He is known as the second wife of singer-songwriter John Lennon of The Beatles.
Ono grew up in Tokyo and also spent several years formative in New York City. He studied at Gakushuin, but retired from his studies after two years and moved to New York in 1953 to live with his family. He spent some time at Sarah Lawrence College and later became involved in the downtown artist scene of New York City, which belonged to the Fluxus group. He first met Lennon in 1966 at his own art show in London, and they became a couple in 1968 and married the following year. With their performances of Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal in 1969, Ono and Lennon famously used their honeymoon at the Hilton Amsterdam as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War. The feminist theme of his music has influenced various musicians such as B-52 and Meredith Monk. He won commercial and critical praise in 1980 with a double-fantasy chart-topping album, a collaboration with Lennon released three weeks before his murder.
The public appreciation of Ono's work has shifted over time and was assisted by a retrospective at the Whitney Museum branch in 1989 and the 1992 release of the Onobox set of six-set boxes. The retrospective of his artwork has also been presented at the Japan Society in New York City in 2001, in Bielefeld, Germany, and England in 2008, Frankfurt, and Bilbao, Spain, in 2013 and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2015. He received a Golden Lion Award for the lifetime achievements of the Venice Biennale in 2009 and Oskar Kokoschka Prize 2012, Austria's highest award for contemporary applied art.
As Lennon's widow, Ono works to defend his legacy. He funded Strawberry Fields in Central Park Manhattan, Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan (which closed in 2010). He has made significant philanthropic contributions to disaster relief art, peace, the Philippines and Japan, and other causes. In 2012, Ono received the Human Rights Award. Rainer Hildebrandt. This award is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitments to human rights. Ono resumed his social activities when he inaugurated $ 200,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace in 2002. He also founded the Artists Against Fracking group in 2012. He has a daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, from his marriage to Anthony Cox and a son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon , from his marriage to Lennon. He collaborated in music with Sean.
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Early life and family
Ono was born on February 18, 1933, in Tokyo, Japan, to Isoko Ono
Two weeks before Ono's birth, Eisuke was transferred to San Francisco by his employer, Yokohama Specie Bank. Other family members soon followed, with Ono meeting his father when he was two years old. His younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. Ono was enrolled in les piano since the age of 4. In 1937, his family was transferred back to Japan and Ono was listed in the elite of Tokyo Gakushuin (also known as Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools In Japan.
The family moved to New York City in 1940. The following year, Eisuke was transferred from New York City to Hanoi, and his family returned to Japan. Ono is listed in Keimei Gakuen, an exclusive Christian elementary school run by the Mitsui family. He remained in Tokyo during World War II and a massive bombing on 9 March 1945, where he was protected with other family members in a special bunker in the Azabu district of Tokyo, away from heavy bombings. Ono then went to Karuizawa mountain resort with his family members.
Famine is rampant in the devastation that follows the bombing of Tokyo; Ono's family is forced to ask for food while pulling their items with them in a wheelchair. Ono said that during this period in his life he developed an "aggressive" attitude and his understanding of the status of "outsider". Other stories tell her that her mother brought a large amount of goods to the countryside, where they were exchanged for food. In one anecdote, his mother sold a German-made sewing machine costing 60 kilos (130 pounds) of rice to feed the family. During this time, Ono's father, who has been in Hanoi, is believed to be in custody of a war camp in China. However, unbeknownst to them, he remains in the city. Ono told Amy Goodman about Democracy Now on October 16, 2007, that "She is in Indochina France, which is actually Vietnam... in Saigon.
In April 1946, Gakushuin reopened and Ono re-registered. The school, located near the Imperial Palace of Tokyo, has not been damaged by war, and Ono found himself a classmate of Prince Akihito, the future emperor of Japan. He graduated in 1951 and was accepted into the Gakushuin University philosophy program as the first woman to enter the department. However, he left school after two semesters.
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New York City
Lecture and city start
After the war ended in 1945, Ono remained in Japan when his family moved to the United States and settled in Scarsdale, New York, a prosperous town 25 miles north of downtown Manhattan. When Ono rejoined his family, he signed up for Sarah Lawrence College nearby. Ono's parents approve of his campus choice but he says they do not approve of his lifestyle and punish him for being friends with the people they feel under him. Regardless of his parents' disagreement, Ono is delighted to meet with artists, poets, and others who represent the bohemian lifestyle he aspires to. He visited galleries and art events in the city; this arouses his desire to publicly display his own artistic endeavors. American avant-garde artist, composer and musician La Monte Young is his first important contact in New York art world; he helped Ono start his career using the Chambers Street loft in Tribeca as a show room. After Ono made a burning painting in one show, his mentor John Cage advised him to treat the paper with a flame retardant. In 1956, Ono left college to elope with Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, a star in the experimental community in Tokyo. After living separately for several years, they filed for divorce in 1962. Ono returned home to live with his parents and suffered from clinical depression when he was briefly placed in a Japanese mental institution. Later that year, on November 28, 1962, Ono married Anthony Cox, an American jazz musician, film producer, and art promoter, who was instrumental in securing his release from the institution. Ono's second marriage was canceled on March 1, 1963, because he had neglected his divorce settlement with Ichiyanagi. After finishing the divorce, Cox and Ono remarried on June 6, 1963. She gave birth to their daughter Kyoko Chan Cox two months later on August 8, 1963. The marriage was a mess, but Coxes remained together for the sake of their career. They perform in the Tokyo Sogetsu Hall, with Ono lying on a piano played by John Cage. Soon, the couple returned to New York with Kyoko. In the early years of marriage, Ono left most of Kyoko's care to Cox while he pursued the art full-time, with Cox also managing his publicity. Ono and Cox divorced on February 2, 1969, and he married John Lennon that same year. In the midst of a 1971 detention battle, Cox disappeared with their eight-year-old daughter. He won the prisoner after successfully claiming that Ono was an unfit mother for drug use. Former Ono's husband changed Kyoko's name to "Ruth Holman" and later raised the girl in an organization known as the Church of the Living Word (or "Walk"). Ono and Lennon searched for Kyoko for years, but to no avail. He finally saw Kyoko again many years later in 1998.
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Fluxus, a loose associate of Dada-inspired avant-garde artists that developed in the early 1960s, was active in New York and Europe. Ono visited London to meet with artist and political activist Gustav Metzger's Destruction in Art Symposium in September 1966, as the only female artist chosen to do his own show and only one of the two were invited to speak.
There are two versions of the story of how Lennon and Ono first met. According to the first report, on November 9, 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing for his concept art exhibition, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar. Lennon was initially unimpressed with the exhibits he saw, including expensive nail bags, but one part, , had a ladder with a spy at the top. As he climbed the stairs, Lennon felt a bit stupid, but he looked through the binoculars and saw the word "YES" which he said meant he did not walk out, because it was positive, whereas most of the art concepts he encountered were "anti" everything.
Lennon is also interested in Ono Hammer a Nail . Viewers scrape nails onto wooden planks, creating artwork. Although the exhibit has not opened yet, Lennon wants to plug a nail into a clean board, but Ono stops him. Dunbar asked him, "Do not you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it." Ono is said to have never heard of The Beatles, but succumbs to the condition that Lennon pays for his five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I will give you five imaginary shillings and hammering an imaginary nail."
Paul McCartney said the second version of the first meeting of Ono and Lennon. In 1965, Ono was in London and compiled an original music score for a book titled Notations ; John Cage is working on the book. McCartney refused to give him one of his own manuscripts but suggested that Lennon be obliged. Lennon did, giving Ono the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word."
In a 2002 interview, he said, "I am very interested in him, this is a strange situation." Both began to correspond and, in September 1967, Lennon sponsored a solo show Ono at the Lisson Gallery in London. When Lennon's wife, Cynthia, asked for an explanation of why Ono called them at home, she told him that Ono was just trying to get money for "avant-garde crap." In early 1968, when The Beatles made a famous visit to India, Lennon wrote the song "Julia" and incorporated a reference to Ono: "The Son of the sea calls me", referring to Yoko's Japanese spelling translation. In May 1968, when his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording what would become the album Two Virgins, after which, he said, they "made love at dawn". When Lennon's wife returns home, he finds Ono wearing a bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon, who simply says, "Oh, hi."
On September 24 and 25, 1968, Lennon wrote and recorded "Happiness Is a Warm Weapon", which contains sexual references for Ono. A few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted, Ono became pregnant, but he suffered a miscarriage of a boy on November 21, 1968.
Bed-Ins and other early collaborations
Lennon changed his name by polling on April 22, 1969, replacing Winston for Ono as the middle name. Although he used the name John Ono Lennon afterwards, the official document referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, as he was not allowed to repeal the name given at birth. The couple settled at Tittenhurst Park in Sunninghill, Berkshire, in southeastern England. When Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged a king-sized bed to be taken to the recording studio while he was working on the last album recorded by the Beatles, Abbey Road.
Both artists collaborated on many albums, starting in 1968 when Lennon was still Beatle, with Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins , an album from an experimental music concert. That same year, the couple contributed an experimental part to White Album called "Revolution 9". Also at The White Album, Ono contributed backing vocals on "Birthday", and one main vocal line on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill." The latter marks the only chance in a Beatles tape in which a woman sings the main vocal.
The Plastic Ono Band
Ono influenced Lennon to produce more "autobiographical" output and, after "The Ballad of John and Yoko", they decided it would be better to form their own band instead of putting the material under the Beatles name. In 1969, the first album Plastic Ono Band, Live Peace in Toronto 1969 , was recorded during the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival. The group's first incarnation also consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Klaus Voormann, and drummer Alan White. The first half of their performance consists of rock standards. During the second half, Ono climbed into the microphone and did an avant-garde set with the band, ending with music that mainly consisted of feedback, while he screamed and sang.
First solo album and Fly
Ono released his first solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band , in 1970 as part of Lennon's more famous companion John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band . Both albums also have a companion cover: Ono displays a photo of herself leaning on Lennon, and Lennon's photo rests on Ono. The album includes raw, hard vocals, which have similarities to sounds in nature (especially those made by animals) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players. Perpetrators include Ornette Coleman, another famous free jazz artist, and Ringo Starr. Some of the songs on this album consist of wordless vocalizations, in a style that will affect Meredith Monk and other music artists who have used screams and vocal sounds instead of words. This album reached No. 182 on the US charts.
When Lennon was invited to play with Frank Zappa at Fillmore (later Filmore West) on June 5, 1971, Ono joined them. Later that year, she released Fly , a double album. In it, he explored a little more conventional psychedelic rocks with songs including "Midsummer New York" and "Mind Train", in addition to a number of Fluxus experiments. He also received a small broadcast with the ballad "Mrs. Lennon". The song "Do not Worry, Kyoko (Mummy Only Looking Her Hand in the Snow)" is an ode to the lost Ono's daughter, and features Eric Clapton on guitar. In the late 1960s, while studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Majorca, Spain, Anthony Cox's ex-husband accused Ono of kidnapping their daughter Kyoko from his hotel. Allegations of flying between the two, also about custody. Cox eventually moved with Kyoko; Ono will not see his daughter until 1998. That's when she wrote "Do not Worry Kyoko", which also appeared on the album Lennon and Ono Live Peace in Toronto 1969 , in addition to Fly . Kyoko is also referenced in the first line of "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" when Yoko whispers "Merry Christmas, Kyoko", followed by Lennon whispering, "Merry Christmas, Julian." The song reached No. 4 in the UK, where its release was delayed until 1972, and periodically reappeared on the UK Singles Chart. Initially a protest song about the Vietnam War, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has become the standard Christmas. In August, the couple performed together at a place in Madison Square Garden with Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder and Sha Na Na for mentally handicapped children organized by WABC-TV Geraldo Rivera.
In the 2018 edition of Portland magazine, editor Colin W. Sargent wrote about interviewing Yoko when he visited Portland, Maine in 2005. He talked about driving along the coast with Lennon and dreaming of buying a house in Maine. "We were talking excitedly in the car, we were looking for a house on the water... We checked the place! We kept driving north along the waters until I could not quite remember the name of the city We went far enough way up, actually, because it's so beautiful. "
Separation from Lennon and reconciliation
After The Beatles broke up in 1970, Ono and Lennon lived together in London and then moved permanently to Manhattan to avoid tabloid racism leading to Ono. Their relationship became tense because Lennon faced the threat of deportation because of the drug charges he had filed against him in Britain, and because of Ono's separation from his daughter. The couple split up in July 1973, with Ono pursuing his career and Lennon staying between Los Angeles and New York with personal assistant May Pang; Ono has given his blessing to Lennon and Pang.
In December 1974, Lennon and Pang considered buying a house together, and he refused to receive Ono's phone call. The following month, Lennon agrees to meet with Ono, who claims to have found a cure for smoking. After the meeting, he failed to go home or call Pang. When Pang called the next day, Ono told him that Lennon was not available, because he was exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappears at a dental meeting with Pang; he was dumbfounded and confused in such a way that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. She tells him that her farewell to Ono is over, although Ono will let her continue to see her as her lover.
Ono's son and Lennon, Sean, was born on October 9, 1975, which happened to be Lennon's 35th birthday. John did not help connect with his first son when he described Julian in 1980 as part of "ninety percent of the people on the planet [resulting from unplanned pregnancies]" and that "Sean is a planned child, and that's where the difference. " He said, "I do not like Julian much less as a child, he's still my son, whether he came from a bottle of whiskey or because they did not have pills in those days." John and Julian maintain a low profile over the next five years. Sean followed in his parents' footsteps with a music career; he performs solo work, working with Ono and forming the band, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.
Lennon murder, tribute and warning
After Sean's birth in 1975, Lennon took hiatus from the music industry and became a dayusband to care for his infant son. He continued his writing career just before the December 1980 killing, which Ono witnessed from close range. He stated that the couple were thinking of going out to dinner after spending a few hours in a recording studio, but decided to return to their apartment instead because Lennon wanted to see Sean before he was put to sleep. After the killing of her husband, Ono went into complete seclusion for a long time.
Ono financed the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields cemetery in Manhattan's Central Park, just across from Dakota Apartments, which was the scene of the murder and remains Ono's residence to this day. It was officially dedicated on October 9, 1985, which will be his 45th birthday. In 1990, Ono collaborated with music consultant Jeff Pollack to honor what will be Lennon's 50th anniversary with Imagine broadcasts around the world. More than 1,000 stations in more than 50 countries participate in simultaneous broadcasts. Ono feels the time is right, given the escalating conflicts in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Germany.
In 2000, he founded the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Saitama, Japan. In March 2002, he was present with Cherie Blair at the opening of a seven-foot-tall Lennon statue, to mark the name change from Liverpool airport to Liverpool's John Lennon Airport. (Julian and Cynthia Lennon were present at the opening of the John Lennon Peace Memorial next to ACC Liverpool in the same town eight years later.) On October 9, 2007, he presented a new monument called the Imagine Peace Tower, located on the island. ViÃÆ' Â ° ey, 1 km outside the port of Skarfabakki in ReykjavÃÆ'k, Iceland. Every year, between October 9 and December 8, it projects a high-light vertical beam into the sky. In 2009, Ono made an exhibition called "John Lennon: The New York City Years" for the NYC Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. The exhibition uses music, photos and personal items to illustrate Lennon's life in New York, and part of the cost of each ticket is donated to the Spirit Foundation, a charitable foundation founded by Lennon and Ono.
Every time Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, has a conditional release hearing - mandated by law every two years - Ono strictly opposes his release from prison. He was the widow of the victim, and his opinion had a strong influence on the decision of the parole board to detain Chapman.
Artwork
Fluxus
Ono is often associated with the Fluxus group, founded by George Maciunas, who was his friend during the 1960s. Maciunas admired and enthusiastically promoted his work and gave Ono a US show at Galeri AG in 1961. He formally invited him to join the Fluxus group, but he refused because he wanted to remain independent. He did, however, collaborate with him, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, and poet Jackson Mac Low, among others associated with the group.
John Cage and Marcel Duchamp have a significant influence on Ono art. He learned about Cage at Sarah Lawrence and met him through his student Ichiyanagi Toshi in the legendary Cage class experimental class at the New School for Social Research: He was later introduced with more unconventional Cole unconventional hands and his New York City proton. g Allan Kaprow, Brecht, Mac Low, Al Hansen and poet Dick Higgins.
After Cage finished teaching at New School in the summer of 1960, Ono was determined to rent a place to present his work along with other avant-garde artists in the city. He eventually found a cheap apartment in downtown Manhattan at 112 Chambers Street and used the apartment as a studio and living space. Ono supported himself through secretarial work and lessons in traditional Japanese art in the Japanese Society, and he allowed the composer La Monte Young to organize concerts in the attic. They both began organizing a series of events there from December 1960 to June 1961; the event was attended by the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim. Ono and Young both claim to have been the main curators of the show, with Ono claiming to have been eventually pushed into the role of a subsidiary by Young. The Chambers Street series hosts some of the earliest Ono conceptual artworks, including Painting to Be Stepped On, which is a piece of canvas on the floor that is a work of art completed on footprint accruals. With that work, Ono suggested that a work of art is no longer needed to be mounted on the wall and inaccessible. He showed this work and other instructional work again at Galeri AG Macunias in July 1961.
Ono dikreditkan untuk sampul album cover untuk Nirvana Symphony oleh Toshiro Mayuzumi (Time Records, 1962).
Cut Piece, 1964
Ono is a pioneer of conceptual art and performing arts. A work of seminal performance is Cut Piece, first performed in 1964 at the Yamaichi Concert Hall in Kyoto, Japan. The piece consisted of Ono, dressed in his best suit, kneeling on stage with scissors in front of him. He invites and then instructs the audience to join him on stage and cut his pieces of clothing. Facing issues of gender, class and cultural identity, Ono sits silent until the piece sums up his wisdom. The piece was later performed at the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo in the same year, Carnegie Hall of New York in 1965 and the Central African Africa as part of the Ruined in the Art Symposium in 1966. From that work, John Hendricks in the catalog for the Ono Japan Society is retrospective writes: "Cut Piece reveals an interpersonal alienation characterizing the social relationship between subjects, dismantling the uninterested Kantian aesthetic model. This suggests reciprocity between the artist, the object, and the audience and the person in charge responsibility must be acceptance and preservation of art. "
Other players of the work include Charlotte Moorman and John Hendricks. Ono took over the role in Paris in 2003, in the low post-9/11 period between the US and France, saying he hopes to show that this is "a time in which we must trust each other." In 2013, Canadian singer Peaches repeats at a multi-day Meltdown festival at the Southbank Center in London, which is curated by Ono.
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Grapefruit book, 1964The Ono booklet entitled Grapefruit is another conceptual artwork. First published in 1964, this book is read as a set of instructions through which finished artwork - either literally or in the imagination of the viewer. One example is "Hide and Search Piece: Hide until everyone comes home, hide it until everyone forgets you, hide it until everyone dies." Grapefruit has been published several times, the most widely distributed by Simon & amp; Schuster in 1971, who reprinted it again in 2000. David Bourdon, art critic for The Village Voice
Ono will create many book scenarios as part of his career-wide performance, which became the basis for art exhibitions, including the published retrospective exhibit, It's Not Here in 1971 at the Everson Museum in Syracuse. , New York, which was almost closed when surrounded by lively Beatles fans, who broke several pieces of art and flooded the toilet. It was his last major exhibition until 1989's Yoko Ono: Objects, Films retrospectively in Whitney.
Almost fifty years later in July 2013, he released the sequel Grapefruit , another instruction book, Acorn via OR Book.
Experimental film, 1964-72
Ono was also an experimental filmmaker who made 16 short films between 1964 and 1972, gaining a special fame for the 1966 Fluxus film called just . 4 , often referred to as Bottoms. This five-and-a-half movie consists of a series of close-ups of human buttocks that walk on the treadmill. The screen is divided into four equal parts by gluteal gap elements and horizontal gluteal folds. The soundtrack consists of interviews with those who are filmed, as well as those who are considering joining the project. In 1996, the Swatch watch company produced a limited edition watch that commemorated the film.
In March 2004, ICA London, showing most of its films from this period in their exhibition. The Rare Films of Yoko Ono. He also acted in an obscure exploit film in 1965, Satan's Bed <./i>. Wish Tree, 1981-now
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The installation of Wish Tree at the Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Park, New York, founded in July 2010, has attracted contributions from around the world. Other installation locations include London; St. Louis; Washington DC; San Francisco; the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California; Japan; Venice; and Dublin.
In 2014, the Onno Imagine Peace exhibition opens at Bob Rauschenburg Gallery in Florida SouthWestern State College in Fort Myers, FL. Ono posted a billboard on Route 41 in Fort Myers to promote the show and peace.
When the exhibit was closed, the hopes that had been placed in the Harpoon Tree were posted to the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland and added to the millions of wishes already there.
Arise, 2015
In 2015, Ono created the Inflicting section of Venice. As part of the Personal Structures exhibition, hosted by Global Art Affairs, the installation begins from June 1 to November 24, 2013, at the Palazzo Bembo, the European Cultural Center. In this feminist artwork, the female silicone body is burned in the Venetian lagoon, evoking the image of a mystical owl. When asked about the similarity between the naming of his record of Rising and this song, Ono replied: "Rising tells everyone that it is time for us to rise and fight for our rights. in the process of combat together, women are still treated separately in an inhuman way.This weakens the power of men and women together.I hope Awakening will awaken the Power of Woman, and make us men and women , healed together. " ​​â € <â € << span id = "Skylanding, _2016"> ​​â € <â € < Skylanding , 2016
In October 2016, Ono launched its first permanent art installation in the United States; The collection is located in Jackson Park, Chicago and promotes peace. Ono was inspired during a visit to the Garden of the Phoenix in 2013 and felt a connection to the city of Chicago.
Introduction and retrospective
John Lennon once described his wife as "the most famous unknown artist in the world: everyone knows his name, but no one knows what he's doing." The circle of his friends in the New York art world has included Kate Millett, Nam June Paik, Dan Richter, Jonas Mekas, Merce Cunningham, Judith Malina, Erica Abeel, Fred DeAsis, Peggy Guggenheim, Betty Rollin, Shusaku Arakawa, Adrian Morris, Stefan Wolpe , Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol (he was one of the speakers at Warhol cemetery in 1987), as well as George Maciunas and La Monte Young. Besides Mekas, Maciunas, Young, and Warhol, he also collaborated with DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer, and Zbigniew Rybczy? Skiing.
In 1989, Whitney Museum held a retrospection of his work, Yoko Ono: Objects, Films , marking Ono's return to the art world of New York after a hiatus. On the advice of Ono's life companion at the time, interior decorator Sam Havadtoy, he rearranged his old pieces in bronze after some initial reluctance. "I realized that for something that made me so want to cry, there was something there.It looks like there's a shimmering air in the 60s when I made these pieces, and now the air is getting dark Now it's the 80s, and the bronze 80s in a way - solidity, commodity, all that.For someone who experienced the revolution of the 60s, of course there is a tremendous change.... I call the bronze bronze pieces of the freedom, all hope and hope in some petrified stuff. "
More than a decade later, in 2001, YES YOKO ONO , 40 years of Ono retrospective work, received the US International Art Association's Criticism Award for the Best Museum from New York City , regarded as one of the highest honors in the museum profession. YES refers to the 1966 sculpture title by Yoko Ono, shown in Indica Gallery, London: viewers climb the ladder to read the word "yes", printed on a small canvas hanging from the ceiling. The exhibition curator Alexandra Munroe wrote that "John Lennon got it, at his first meeting with Yoko: when he climbed up the ladder to peek at the framed paper on the ceiling, he found the little YES." So that's positive. I feel relieved. "This exhibition visited 13 museums in the US, Canada, Japan and Korea from 2000 to 2003. In 2001, he also received a Law Honorary Doctorate degree from Liverpool University and, in 2002, presented with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Bard College, as well as Skowhegan Medal to work in various media. The following year, he was awarded the fifth MOCA Award for Distinguished Women in the Arts from the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Japan Society of New York, which has hosted Yoko Ono and where he worked in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In 2008, he showed a large retrospective exhibition, Between Heaven and My Leaders in Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, and the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art at Gateshead, England. The following year, he showed a selection of new and old works as part of his show "Anton's Memory" in Venice, Italy. He also received a Golden Lion Award for the lifetime achievement of the Venice Biennale in 2009. In 2012, Ono held a great exhibition of his To The Light at the Serpentine Gallery in London. He is also the winner of the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for contemporary applied art. In February 2013, to coincide with his 80th birthday, his greatest retrospection of his work, Half-a-Wind Show, opened at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and traveled to the Danish Louisiana Modern Art Museum, Kunsthalle Austria Krems , and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain. In 2014 he donated some artwork to a three-year art festival in Folkestone, England. In 2015 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City held a retrospective exhibition of his original work, "Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971".
Musical career
Initial career
Ono learns piano from ages 4 to 12 or 13. He attends kabuki performances with his mother, who is trained in shamisen, koto, otsuzumi, kotsuzumi, nagauta, and can read Japanese music score. On 14 Yoko took vocal training in singing lieder. At Sarah Lawrence, she studied poetry with Alastair Reid, English literature along with Kathryn Mansell, and musical compositions with AndrÃÆ' Â © Singer who trained Vienna. Currently Ono said that his hero is a twelve-tone composer Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. He said, "I was just fascinated by what they could do, I wrote a couple of songs with twelve tones, then my music went into the area where my teacher felt completely off track, and... he said, 'Well, look , there are people who do things like what you do and they are called avant-garde. ' "Singer introduced it to Edgar VarÃÆ'¨se, John Cage, and Henry Cowell. He left college and moved to New York in 1957, supporting himself through secretarial work and lessons in traditional Japanese art in the Japanese Society.
He met Cage through Ichiyanagi Toshi in Cage's legendary composition class at New School for Social Research, and in the summer of 1960, he found an inexpensive attic in downtown Manhattan at 112 Chambers Street and allowed the composer La Monte Young to arrange a concert in the attic. with him, with the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim attending. Ono only served work once during the series. In 1961, years before meeting Lennon, Ono performed his first public show at a concert at Carnegie Recital Hall, 258 seats (smaller than "Main Hall"). The concert featured radical experimental music and performances. He had his second engagement at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965, where he debuted Cut Piece. He premiered The Fog Machine during his Concert Music for Mind at the Bluecoat Art Society in Liverpool, England in 1967. 1980s
In early 1980, John Lennon heard Lene Lovich and B-52's "Rock Lobster" while on vacation in Bermuda. The latter reminds him of Ono's music voice and he takes this as an indication that he has reached the mainstream (the band has actually been influenced by Ono). In addition to his collaborations with experimental artists including John Cage and jazz legend Ornette Coleman, many other musicians, especially those of the new wave movement, have paid homage to Ono (both as artists in themselves, and as inspirational and iconic figures). For example, Elvis Costello recorded the song version Ono "Walking on Thin Ice", B-52's (which is interesting from the recording originally) covering "Do not Worry, Kyoko (Mummy Just Seeking a Hand in the Snow)" (Shorten the title to "Do not Worry "), and Sonic Youth incorporated an appearance from" Ono Sound Piece for Soprano "on their experimental album. SYR4: Goodbye The 20th Century .
On the night of December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were in Record Plant Studio and worked on the Ono song "Walking on Thin Ice". When they returned to The Dakota (their home in Manhattan), Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a crazy fan who had been stalking Lennon for two months. "Walking on Thin Ice (For John)" was released as a single less than a month later, and became the first successful Ono chart, peaking at No. 1. 58 and get the big screened underground. In 1981, he released the Season of Glass album, which featured a glaring cover photo of Lennon's blooded glasses next to a half-full glass of water, with windows facing Central Park in the background. This photo was sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for approximately $ 13,000. In liner notes to Season of Glass, Ono explained that the album was not dedicated to Lennon because "he would be offended - he is one of us." The album received very favorable reviews and reflected the public mood after Lennon's murder.
In 1982, he released It's Alright . The cover features Ono in his famous sunglasses, looking toward the sun, while behind, the ghost of Lennon looks at him and their son. The album scored a bit of success and played with the single "Never Say Goodbye".
In 1984, a tribute album titled Every Man Has a Woman was released, featuring a selection of Ono songs performed by artists such as Elvis Costello, Roberta Flack, Money Eddie, Rosanne Cash, and Harry Nilsson. It was one of Lennon's projects that he never completed. Later that year, Ono and Lennon's last album, Milk and Honey , was released as an unfinished demo. It peaked at No. 3 in the UK and No. 11 in the US, will be gold in both countries as well as in Canada.
Ono's last album in 1980 was Starpeace , a concept album he meant as an antidote to the "Star Wars" missile defense system of Ronald Reagan. On the cover, the warm Ono, smiling holding Earth in the palm of his hand. Starpeace became Nono Lennon's most successful business from Ono. The single "Hell in Paradise" was a hit, reaching No. 1. 16 on the US and No. 1 dance charts. 26 on Billboard Hot 100, and a video, directed by Zbigniew Rybczy? Ski received a big game on MTV and won "Most Innovative Video" at the Billboard Music Video Awards in 1986. In 1986, Ono embarked on a world tour of goodwill for Starpeace, mainly visiting Eastern European countries.
1990s
Ono went on hiatus music until he signed a contract with Rykodisc in 1992 and released a complete six-disc box set up Onobox . This included the remaster highlights of all Ono's solo albums, as well as unreleased material from the missing "weekend" sessions in 1974. He also released the one-discs highlights sampler from Onobox , titled Walking on Thin Ice . That year, he sat for an extensive interview with music journalist Mark Kemp for cover story in Alternate Music magazine. This story takes a revisionist view on Ono music for a new generation of fans who are more receptive to its role as a pioneer in pop and avant-garde merging.
In 1994, Ono produced his own Broadway music entitled New York Rock , featuring Broadway performing his songs. In 1995, she released Rising , a collaboration with her son Sean and his band, Ima. Rising spawned a world tour traveling through Europe, Japan and the United States. The following year, he collaborated with various alternative rock musicians for the EP titled Rising Mixes. Guest reminders of Rising Materials include Cibo Matto, Ween, Tricky, and Thurston Moore. In 1997, Rykodisc republished all of his solo albums on CD, from Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band via Starpeace . Ono and his engineer Rob Stevens personally recreated the audio, and bonus tracks were added, including censorship, demos, and live cuts.
2000s
The concept of the feminist album Ono Blueprint for Sunrise was released in 2001. In 2002, Ono joined The B-52's in New York for their 25th anniversary concert; he came out for an encore and did "Rock Lobster" with the band. Starting next year, some DJs mix up other Ono songs for the dance club. For a remix project, he dropped his first name and was known as "ONO", in answer to "Oh, no!" a joke that followed her throughout her career. Ono achieved great success with the new version of "Walking on Thin Ice", which was remixed by famous DJs and dance artists including Pet Shop Boys, Orange Factory, Peter Rauhofer and Danny Tenaglia.
In April 2003, Ono Walking on Thin Ice (Remixes) was ranked number 1 on the Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart, earning its first Ono no. 1 stroke. He goes back to no. 1 on the same chart in November 2004 with "Everyman... EverywomanÃ,...", a reworking of his song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him", in January 2008, with "No No No" and in August 2008, with "Give Peace a Chance". In June 2009, at the age of 76, Ono scored the fifth. 1 click on the Dance/Club Play chart with "I'm Not Enough".
Ono released album Yes, I'm a Witch in 2007, remix collection and cover from her back catalog by various artists including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Anohni, DJ Spooky, Tree Hedgehog and Peaches, released on February 2007, together with a special edition of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band . Yes my Magician is very well received. A similar compilation of the Ono dance remix entitled Open Your Box was also released in April of that year.
In 2009, Ono recorded Between My Head and Heaven , which was her first album released as "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" since 1973 Feeling the Space . The new Ono Band plastic series include Sean Lennon, Cornelius, and Yuka Honda. On February 16, 2010, Sean held a concert at the Brooklyn Music Academy called "We Are Plastic Ono Band", where Yoko performed his music with Sean, Clapton, Klaus Voormann, and Jim Keltner for the first time since the 1970s. Guests include Bette Midler, Paul Simon and his son Harper, and the main members of Sonic Youth and Scissor Sisters interpret their songs in their own style.
2010s
In April 2010, RCRD LBL provided free downloads from the mix of Junior Boys 'I'm Not Getting Enough', which was originally released 10 years earlier on Blueprint for a Sunrise. The song and "Willnit (I'm a Star)", released on September 14, made it to Billboard's year-end list of favorite Dance/Club songs in No. 1. 23 and No. 50 each. The following year, "Move on Fast" hit number one sixth in a row on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and his eighth overall blow. In January 2012, a mixture of Ralphi Rosario from his 1995 song "Talking to the Universe" became the seventh consecutive No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart, and both songs mapped again as favorites on Billboard's year-end list for Dance./Club songs for 2011. In 2013, he and his band released LP Take Me to the Land of Hell , featuring many guests including Yuka Honda, Cornelius, Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu, mi-gu Yuko Araki, Wilco Nels Cline, tUnE-yArDs, Questlove, Lenny Kravitz, and Ad-Rock and Mike D from Beastie Boys. The online video for "Bad Dancer" was released in November 2013, featuring some of these guests, well liked by the press. By the end of the year he has become one of three artists with two songs on the Top 20 Dance/Club and has two hit number 1 in a row on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play Charts. On the strength of the single "Hold Me" and "Walking on Thin Ice", who was 80 years old beat Katy Perry, Robin Thicke, and his friend Lady Gaga. In 2014, "Angel" is number twelve from Ono on the US Dance chart. In December 2016, Collaboration
During his career, Ono has also collaborated with Earl Slick, David Tudor, Fred DeAsis, and Richard Maxfield. As a dance music artist, Ono has worked with re-mixers/producers including Basement Jaxx, Bill Kates, Keiji Haino, Nick Vernier Band, Billy Martin, DJ Spooky, Apple on Stereo, Damien Price, DJ Chernobyl, Bimbo Jones, DJ Dan, Craig Armstrong, Jorge Artajo, Shuji Nabara, and Konrad Behr.
The album Yokokimthurston was released in 2012. It featured collaborations with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. The album is also famous as the first collaboration between Moore and Gordon after their divorce. It was marked by AllMusic as the "focus and risk taking" and "above the best" of the couple's experimental music, with Ono's voice described as "one-of-a-kind."
BMI Foundation Scholarships John Lennon Scholarships
In 1997, Yoko Ono and the BMI Foundation established an annual music competition program for contemporary music genre songwriters to honor John Lennon's memory and his great creative legacy. Over $ 350,000 has been awarded through BMI Foundation John Lennon Scholarships to talented young musicians in the United States, making it one of the most respected awards for emerging songwriters.
Public image
Over the years, Ono has often been criticized by the press and the public. He was blamed for the breakup of The Beatles and repeatedly criticized for his influence over Lennon and his music. His experimental art is also not popularly accepted. The British press is very negative and encourages the couple to move to the US. Until the end of December 1999, NME called him "no-talent charlatan".
His name still connects with the evil female interloper to the mainstream. Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain's widow, has relentlessly compared to Ono for her perverse role in Nirvana's business and is blamed for Cobain's suicide.
When American singer Jessica Simpson dated Dallas Cowboys midfielder Tony Romo in 2007, the Simpson-Romo relationship was blamed for Romo's poor performances. In response, some Cowboys fans gave him the moniker "Yoko Romo".
In March 2015, Perrie Edwards, a member of the British girl group Little Mix, compared to Yoko Ono and criticized for the reasons that should have for Zayn Malik's departure from the British boy band One Direction, created tension within the group and caused widespread controversy.
2000s
A month after the 9/11 attacks, Ono organized the concert "Come Together: A Night for John Lennon Words and Music" at Radio City Music Hall. Guided by actor Kevin Spacey and featuring Lou Reed, Cyndi Lauper and Nelly Furtado, it raised money for the September 11 aid effort and broadcast on TNT and WB.
During Liverpool Biennial in 2004, Ono flooded the city with two pictures on banners, bags, stickers, postcards, leaflets, posters and badges: one naked female breast, the other from the same model vulva. (During his stay in Lennon's birthplace, he said he was "shocked" by the city's revival.) The piece, titled My Mummy Was Beautiful, is dedicated to Lennon's mother Julia who had died when she was a teenager. According to Ono, the work was meant to be innocent, not surprising; she tries to imitate the experience of a baby looking into her mother's body, the parts of her body becoming a child's introduction to humanity.
Ono performed at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Like many other artists during the ceremony, he wore white clothing to symbolize the winter snow. He read a free verse poem calling for world peace as an introduction to Peter Gabriel's performance of "Imagine".
On 13 December 2006, one of Ono's bodyguards was arrested after allegedly recorded to attempt to extort $ 2 million from him. The tape revealed that he threatened to let go of private conversations and photographs. His warrant was revoked, and he pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted grand larceny. On February 16, 2007, an agreement was reached when allegations of extortion were canceled, and he pleaded guilty to attempted massive third-degree theft, crimes and sentenced to 60 days he spent in jail. After reading the unrepentant statement, he was released to the immigration officer because he was also found guilty of extending his business visa.
On June 26, 2007, Ono appeared on Larry King Live along with McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Olivia Harrison. He headed the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on July 14, 2007, performing a complete set that combines music and performing arts. He sang "Mulberry," a song about his time in the countryside after Japan collapsed in World War II for only the third time, with Thurston Moore: He had previously performed the song with John and with Sean. On October 9th of that year, the Imagine Peace Tower on the Island of Iceland, dedicated to peace and to Lennon, was enlivened with him, Sean, Ringo, widow George Harrison, Olivia who was present.
Ono returned to Liverpool for Liverpool Biennale 2008, where he launched the Sky Ladders in the ruins of St. Luke's Church (which was largely destroyed during World War II and now stands without a roof as a warning to those killed at Liverpool Blitz ). Two years later, on March 31, 2009, he went to the inauguration of the "Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko" exhibition to mark 40 years of Lennon-Ono Bed-In at Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, from May 26 until 2 June 1969. (The hotel has been doing steady business with the rooms they live in for more than 40 years.) That year she became grandmother, when Emi was born into Kyoko.
In May 2009, he designed a T-shirt for the second AIDS Against AIDS campaign and a collection of HIV/AIDS awareness, NGO Designers Against AIDS, and H & amp; M, with the statement "Imagine Peace" described in 21 languages. Ono appeared on stage at Microsoft June 1, 2009, an E3 Expo press conference with Olivia Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr to promote Beatles: Rock Band video games, universally praised by critics. Ono appeared on the Jaxx Basement Scars album, featuring the single "Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)".
2010s
On February 16, 2010, Ono revived the early Plastic Ono Band lineup with Eric Clapton and special guests including Paul Simon and Bette Midler. On April 1 of that year, he was named the "Autism Global Ambassador" by the Autism Speaks organization. He has created a work of art the previous year for awareness of autism and enabled him to be auctioned in 67 sections to benefit the organization. Ono appeared alongside Ringo Starr on July 7 at Radio City Music Hall in New York in celebration of Starr's 70th birthday, performing With a Little Help from My Friends and "Give Peace a Chance". On September 16, she and Sean attended the opening of the Julian Lennon photo exhibition at Morrison Hotel in New York City, appearing for the first time with Cynthia and Julian. He also promotes his work on his website. On October 2nd, Ono and Plastic Ono Band performed at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, with special guest Lady Gaga, whom she greatly admired.
On February 18, 2011 (78th birthday), Ono issued a full-page ad in the free English newspaper Metro for "Imagine Peace 2011". It takes the form of an open letter, inviting people to think, and expect, peace. With his son Sean, he held a charity concert to help relief efforts for the earthquake and tsunami that Japan destroyed on March 27 in New York City. This effort generated a total of $ 33,000. In July 2011, he visited Japan to support victims of the earthquake and tsunami and tourism to the country. During his visit Ono gave lectures and performances entitled "The Road of Hope" at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, where he painted large calligraphic pieces titled "Dreams" to help raise funds for the construction of Rumah Pelangi, an institution for orphaned children from earthquakes the Great East of Japan. He also collected the 8th Hiroshima Art Gift for his contribution to art and for peace, that he was awarded the year before.
In January 2012, a mix of Ralphi Rosario from his 1995 song Talking to the Universe became the seventh consecutive No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In March of the same year, he was awarded Oskar Kokoschka Prize worth 20,000 euros ($ 26,400) in Austria. From 19 June to 9 September, his work To the Light is on display at the Serpentine Gallery in London. The event was held in conjunction with the London 2012 Festival, a 12-week celebration across England featuring internationally renowned artists from Midsummer's Day (June 21) to the last day of Paralympic Games on September 9th.
On June 29th, 2012, Ono received a lifetime achievement award at the Dublin Biennale. During the (second) trip to Ireland (the first was with John before they married), he visited the basement of Irish leader Daniel O'Connell at Glasnevin Cemetery and DÃÆ'ºn Laoghaire, from which Ireland went to England to flee from the famine. In February 2013, Ono received the Rainer Hildebrandt Medal at the Charlie Checkpoint Charlie Museum, awarded to him and Lennon for their work period for peace and human rights. The following month, he tweeted an anti-weapon message with the bloody eyelashes of Lennon about what would be his 44th birthday and Lennon, noting that more than 1 million people have been killed by weapons since Lennon's death in 1980. He was also given a Congress quote from the Philippines for his financial assistance to Pablo's cyclone victims. He also contributed to disaster relief efforts after Typhoon Ondoy in 2009, and he helped Filipino schoolchildren.
In June 2013, he curated Meltdown festival in London, where he played two concerts, one with Plastic Ono Band, and the second in backing vocals during Siouxsie Sioux performing the song "Walking on Thin Ice" in Double Fantasy show. In July, OR Book published the sequel Ono in 1964 Grapefruit , another book from an instruction-based action poem 'this time titled, Acorn. In 2009 he became a patron of honor for Alder Hey Charity.
On February 26, 2016, Ono was hospitalized after suffering what was reported as a possible stroke. He then announced that he had extreme flu symptoms.
On September 6, 2016, Secretly Canadian announced that they would reissue 11 Yoko Ono's albums from 1968 to 1985; Unfinished Music No 1: Two Virgin through Starpeace.
Ono has been a peace and human rights activist since the 1960s. After he and Lennon got married in Gibraltar, they held a "Bed-In for Peace" in March 1969 in their honeymoon room at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. The newlyweds are eager to talk and promote world peace; they wear pajamas and invite visitors and members of the press. Two months later, Ono and Lennon held another Bed-In at Queen Elizabeth Fairmont in Montreal, where they recorded their first single, "Give Peace A Chance". The song became the top 20 hit for the newly baptized Ono Plastic Band. Other performances/demonstrations with John included "bagism," an iteration with John of the Bags he introduced in the early 1960s, which drove a waiver of his physical appearance in judging others. In December 1969, the two continued to spread their message of peace with billboards in 12 major cities of the world that read "WAR IS MORE! If You Want It - Merry Christmas from John & Yoko."
In the 1970s, Ono and Lennon became close to many radical rebel leaders, including Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Michael X, John Sinclair (for a rally in Michigan they flew to sing Lennon's "Free John Sinclair" song effectively liberating the poet from prison), Angela Davis, and street musician David Peel. Friends and Sexual Policy author Kate Millett says Ono inspired his activism. Ono and Lennon appeared on The Mike Douglas Show, taking over hosting duties for a week. Ono speaks at length about the evils of racism and sexism. He remains openly in his support of feminism, and openly bitter about the racism he experienced from rock fans, especially in England. His reception in the British media is not much better. For example, an Esquire article in that period was entitled "John
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