Yoko Ono's 1964 Cut Piece

In 1964 Yoko Ono recorded a performance called Cut Piece where members of the audience are invited to cut away pieces of her clothing. While the piece takes place, Ono maintains her equanimity, even when she is nearly naked. Cut Piece is a powerful event demonstrating duality of power and powerlessness, the fate of female innocence in the face of violence. Everyone is implicated in the act of disrobing the artist, whose calm acts as an infinite reproach, even though it is Ono herself who has invited the disrobing.

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