(News Release from Walker Art Center)
The Walker Art Center has a great line-up of events relating to the opening of the Yes Yoko Ono exhibit there, beginning opening weekend, March 9.
Late Night After Hours Preview Party
Friday, March 9, 9PM-12Midnight
An evening of film, Fluxus-inspired entertainment and Art Lab activities to celebrate the opening.
Art Activity: Fanciful Fluxus Fashions
9-11PM Art Lab
From a myriad of paper and other materials, create fanciful additions to your party attire with festive belts, bustles, collars, ties, masks or crowns.
Yoko Ono Films
Apotheosis
9:30 and 11:30PM Auditorium
Rape
10PM Auditorium
Music
10:15-11:45PM, Gallery 8 Restaurant
Continuous entertainment featuring Fluxus into Antifluxus sounds from DJ Rod Smith, a cameo by media-sound collagists Escape Mechanism, and the premiere of Guilt Piece featuring Tom Siler and Tulip Sweet.
Martini of the Month: In Flux
Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum, Grenadine and garnish.
Prizes
Share your thoughts about the selected "rant or rave" artwork and enter to win great prizes courtesy of Dayton's, Table of Contents and James Page Brewery.
An Afternoon With Yoko (Sold Out)
Saturday, March 10, 2PM
For this afternoon of conversation moderated by art historian Kristine Stiles, Yoko discusses ideas that animate her work and leads the audience in a performance piece. A major figure in Fluxus and Conceptual Art, Yoko has been at the forefront of avant-garde music, performance, film and visual arts for close to half a century.
The Films of Yoko Ono
Saturday, March 10, 7PM, $6 ($4 Walker members)
Auditorium
Yoko Ono's filmmaking emerged out of the radical and experimental arts scene of the 1960s. Her films are fundamentally conceptual and characterized by the same concerns that underpin her work in other media: the body, duration, ephemerality, seriality, measurement, language, and active engagement of the viewer as participant, a performative structure, attention to the properties of the material, and a break with the autonomous work of art.
Shown:
Museum of Modern Art Show - 7 Minutes
Freedom - 1 Minute
Two Virgins - 19 Minutes
Up Your Legs Forever - 70 Minutes
GALLERY TALK
March 22, 6:30 PM - Free
Join Walker curatorial intern Elizabeth Mangini for a look at the spare beauty of Yoko's work.
MORE EVENTS IN APRIL AND MAY
More YES Yoko Ono News:
Overview
of Exhibit at Walker Center
Early
Walker Center News
Japan Society News Release
YES Yoko Ono Book
