Re: SB. TV’s https://facebook/video.php?v=10152618442534667 Dear Y’all, You’re intelligent beings, and I simply cannot spare the time, but I feel uniquely compelled to address this bullshit, ignoramus “SB. TV news-outlet,” (and I’m using the term “news-outlet” rather loosely….) SB. TV purportedly claims to be “the United Kingdom’s most popular youth broadcaster”—if there’s an iota of truth to their assertion…well, that’s a cryin’ shame. Yoko Ono’s supposed rendition of Katy Perry’s “Firework,” is an awful case of “bad-faith” falsehood(lums) spewing their puerile, unfettered stupidity all over our “beloved” internet. If “SB. TV’s publishers had, oh…I dont know, read a book in lieu of listening to the likes of Katy Perry (or scouring YouTube all the livelong day for memes), maybe they wouldn’t’ve embarrassed THEMSELVES (and their “minions.”) What youre actually watching is an indisputably brilliant artist, Yoko Ono, performing one of her brilliant, canonical performance pieces entitled Voice Piece for Soprano. Yoko Ono’s Voice Piece for Soprano ’twas/is associated avec her other masterpieces Wish Tree (which was located in MoMA’s exquisite sculpture garden), and Whisper Peace. These works of art, i.e., “performance art” or “installation art,” etc., are a part of Yoko Ono’s “instruction pieces,” or “instruction works.” In fact, I suppose some of the aforementioned pieces were/are technically “reinstallation pieces”—Ono began experimenting avec this, particular breed of art five decades ago, as evidenced by the contents of her internationally-renowned artist’s book, Grapefruit. This notional, “instruction artwork” is profoundly ingenious—she describes/described her “instruction pieces” as “painting to be constructed in your head,” ergo, “the onus of creation is squarely placed upon the ‘spectator.’” Ironically, I’d bet Yoko Ono would be fascinated by SB TV’s perversion of her artistic genius (and the subsequent, “viral hoopla”). Fortunately or unfortunately, I’m not arrogant enough to say that I know everything there is to know about Grapefruit, and art, and Yoko Ono’s personal, artistic decisions/intention(s)…but I’d venture to guess that Voice Piece for Soprano’s “inception” flirted with les themes of catharsis, judgement, or, utilizing art as a vehicle for a cathartic dismantling of a world that loves to judge, and to mortify. Sadly, SB. TV’s naiveté led them to attempt to embarrass Yoko Ono by posting (and taking some absurd “creative liberty” avec the title) a (feminist) work of performance art that artists’ve deemed a gorgeous social critique of humanity’s/of our dismally, judgmental climate—a world we created…. The sheer existence of SB. TV and other rag mags masquerading as “news” proves one of the artist’s points. Fortunately, rarer creatures like Yoko Ono tried to do something about it: Voice Piece for Soprano creates a space—a judgment-free zone where we’re permitted to vent, and to remonstrate, and to release the adverse effects of living in this absurdly, judgement-frenzied world.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 07:10:49 +0000