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'Uh, gee, great.' -Andy Warhol 'Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.'
-Bugs Bunny
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
"Our life together is so precious together." -- from (Just Like) Starting Over, by John Lennon
On March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono wed in Gibraltar. The following week, media manipulators used their celebrity for good, hosting a honeymoon "bed-in" for peace in room 902, the presidential suite of the Amsterdam Hilton. The press assumed that the famous nudists would make love for their cameras. Instead, the pajama-clad newlyweds spoke out about world peace. It was the honeymoon as performance art, interlaced with a protest against the Vietnam War.
Lennon's "The Ballad of John and Yoko" chronicles the week in song: "Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton / Talking in our bed for a week / The news people said / 'Hey, what you doin' in bed?'/ I said, 'We're only tryin' to get us some peace!'"
For a week, John and Yoko give interviews, ignoring the mockery and hostility to spread their words of peace to a global audience.
Yes, i think this is art; Performance art.
Performance art involves time,space, the performer's body, and a relatinship between the performer and the audience. it can happen at any time and wherever.
More importantly, performance art has to get across to viewers a message. in this case, it is a message of peace for the world.
On june 1st 1969, the couple and a huge group of friends recorded "Give Peace a Chance." The single is credited to "The Plastic Ono Band." Five weeks later, on July 7, the 45 was released in the United States. "Give Peace a Chance" reached no. 14 on Billboard's chart -- and inspired an entire generation to chant a song of peace along with John and Yoko.
8:28 PM
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