Why I love Yoko Ono's 'Grapefruit'
This video talks about Yoko Ono's ground-breaking 1964 collection of conceptual artworks, Grapefruit, a series of written instructions for the reader to create performance artworks. I love the anti-consumerist sentiment of Grapefruit's de-materialisation in general, but I also love the way each work explores different themes.
'Painting to be Stepped On' rejects the modernist notion of art as the creation of the artist; random passersby become the unwitting creators.
'Lighting Piece' is one of the simplest works, but resonates with the symbolism of light as illumination, or hope, but also of transience.
'Painting to Exist Only When It's Copied Or Photographed' explores ideas raised in Walter Benjamin's 1935 work 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'.
Similarly, 'Mirror Piece' parallels ideas that can be found in Sigmund Freud's concept of projection.
'Cloud Piece' begins with the reality-altering word 'Imagine'...
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