Yoko Ono, Cut Piece First performed in 1964 Filmed by Albert and David Maysles in New York at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965 Courtesy YOKO ONO EXHIBITIONS
Yoko Ono performed Cut Piece for the first time on July 20, 1964 at the Yamaichi Concert Hall in Kyoto, followed by another iteration on August 11, 1964 in Tokyo at the Sogetsu Art Center, an important hub for experimental arts throughout the 1960s. Moving to the United States after World War II, Ono attended Sarah Lawrence College and lived in New York, where she emerged as an important participant in the city’s burgeoning downtown
avant-garde scene. The community included seminal figures such as the artist-composer John Cage and the founder of Fluxus, George Maciunas. Returning to Japan in 1962 and staying for the next two years, Ono energetically presented her growing conceptual body of work through various outlets, including formal concerts. In Cut Piece, widely considered a milestone in the history of performance art, Ono entered a bare stage, dressed in a nice suit and holding a pair of scissors. She quietly knelt in the center of the stage and invited audience members to come up one by one to snip off a piece of her clothes
小野洋子《切片》
1964年於京都首演 小野洋子於1964年7月20日在京都卡耐基誦廳（Yamaichi Concert Hall）首度演 出《切片》，之後於8月11日在六十年代以實驗藝術為主的東京草月藝術中心重 演。在第二次世界大戰後，她遠赴美國就讀莎拉勞倫斯學院，並定居紐約，其 後逐漸成為當地前衛藝術的重要一員。當時的藝術界臥虎藏龍，包括作曲家約 翰．凱吉及Fluxus創辦人喬治．馬西納斯。小野洋子於1962回流日本兩年，積 極地在不同類型的展演場域，包括正統的音樂會，演出她日趨概念性的作品。 《切片》一直被視為表演藝術歷史上的重要里程碑，在這個演出中，小野洋子 於空蕩的舞台上身穿優雅套裝，手中拿著一把剪刀。她在舞台中央安靜地跪 著，繼而邀請台下觀眾逐一上台把她的衣服剪碎，讓他們拿回去作紀念。 在日本兩次演出後，她接著在紐約及倫敦重演，而不同地方的觀眾都有不同的 迴響。外界對《切片》的反應也有不同意見，有些人覺得這是宣揚女性主義，