#bag piece

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Ausstellung über Yoko Ono in K20 Düsseldorf 9.03.2025

Bag Piece

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Ausstellung über Yoko Ono in K20 Düsseldorf 9.03.2025

Bag Piece (1964) by Yoko Ono

“Bag Piece,” created by artist Yoko Ono in 1964, is a performance artwork belonging to the Neo-Dada art movement. In the artwork, the subject is completely shrouded with a large, dark fabric that conceals their form, creating a mysterious and ambiguous presence under the light. This act of concealment forces the viewer to engage in an imaginative process to contemplate the unseen performer beneath the fabric, ultimately questioning the nature of identity and perception. The simplicity of the draped fabric and the focused use of lighting evoke a sense of introspective contemplation, inviting deep visual and philosophical inquiry.

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Yoko Ono, Bag Piece, 1964

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Yoko Ono

Bag Piece (1964), performed

during Perpetual Fluxfest,

Cinematheque, New York, June 27, 1965

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Access Sources - Interpretation

Bag Piece 1964 by Yoko Ono

A small room with instructions painted on the wall, encouraging strangers to “touch each other,” only led to visitors looking around awkwardly and then leaving. A take on Bag Piece — a work Ono first performed in 1964 by instructing two people to get inside the bag, remove their clothes, then get dressed again before coming out of the bag — is set up in one corner of the gallery; participants are free to do what they choose within the provided bag.

Flavorwire http://flavorwire.com/519603/yoko-ono-is-for-everyone

"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) 1991 by Félix González-Torres

Between 1987 and 1990 artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres made an edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof of “Untitled” (Perfect Lovers)”, which consists of a identical pair of store-bought black-rimmed clocks. The piece was dedicated to his lover Ross Laycock, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991. In the same year Gonzalez-Torres created a white version of the work, which is owned by the MoMa, New York. The guidelines regarding how the work should be arranged and displayed are the following: “When installed, the two clocks were to touch; the clocks could be replaced with white plastic commercial clocks of similar dimensions and design; the minute and second hands were to be set in sync, with the understanding that eventually they might go out of sync during the course of the exhibition; if one of the clocks needed the batteries replaced, it was to be done, and the clocks were to be reset accordingly; the clocks were to be displayed on a wall painted light blue.”

CatchFire http://www.catch-fire.com/2011/11/felix-gonzales-torres-untitled-perfect-lovers-1987-1991/

One-Hundred-Year Calendars 2000 by On Kawara

The format of the calendar provided On Kawara with another way of representing time and recording daily life. In both One Hundred Years Calendars (1984–2012) and One Million Years (1970–98), Kawara compresses time into small grids. For One Hundred Years Calendars, the calendars are ten rows high, with each row representing a decade and columns representing the months. Black dots indicate Sundays. Every day in the artist’s life is marked over the numeral with a yellow dot. Every day a Date Painting was completed is marked with a green dot, and red dots note when more than one painting was made. The calendars teach us some things about Kawara’s life. They indicate that he was born on December 24, 1932, not January 2, 1933, as officially recorded and publicized prior to his passing. They also reveal months of high and low artistic productivity

The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation https://www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/topic/calendars-one-hundred-years-and-one-million-years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrPsfXg088w

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yoko ono - bag piece (excerpt from 15 minute performance) performed by ollivander mcdonagh august 15th, 2015 museum of modern art, nyc

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Scanned from YES YOKO ONO by Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hendricks

Bag Piece, 1964

Performed by Yoko Ono and Tony Cox