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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on September 14, 2003, 09:53:00 am
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Yoko Ono to Go Naked for Peace in Paris
Reuters
Sunday, September 14, 2003; 8:08 AM
PARIS (Reuters) - John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono could end up stark naked on a Paris stage Monday as she performs her one-woman art show "Cut Piece," in which members of the audience are to cut off pieces of her clothing.
Ono, 70, who accompanied her Beatle husband in numerous controversial anti-war campaigns including the "Bed-In for Peace" against the Vietnam War, first performed her "Cut Piece" show in 1964 in Japan as a protest for peace.
At the end of the show, she stood naked before her audience.
"Come and cut a piece of my clothing wherever you like --- the size of less than a postcard --- and send it to the one you love," the avant-garde artist said in a statement ahead of the performance at Paris' Ranelagh theater.
"When I first performed this work, in 1964, I did it with some anger and turbulence in my heart. This time, I do it with love for you, for me and for the world," she added.
Ono has continued to stage unusual peace campaigns after her husband was shot dead by a deranged fan in December 1980.
Last year, she rented a giant billboard space amid the flashing neon signs of Piccadilly Circus in central London. "Imagine all the people living life in peace," the black-and- white poster read, alluding to Lennon's hit song, "Imagine."
Ahead of the war in Iraq, Ono took out full-page advertisements in major newspapers, conveying the message: "Imagine Peace...Spring 2003."
Peace activists around the world have come to adopt the title track from Lennon's 1971 best-selling solo album as their unofficial anthem.
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well that is old news Rhett......
but I dont think she has aged very well.......
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I thought you were going to talk about sitting around naked again, but listening to the new Beulah album.
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Originally posted by jadetree:
I thought you were going to talk about sitting around naked again, but listening to the new Beulah album.
sitting around naked with Rhett listening to the new Beulah album does sound yummy to me!