Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono is an award-winning multi-media artist and peace activist, who constantly challenges and stretches the traditional boundaries of sculpture, painting, theater and music. Her seminal performance art in the early 1960's, experimental films and collaborative music with John Lennon in the 1970's and international one-woman shows and retrospectives during the 1980's and 1990's illustrate her varied career.
Some of Yoko Ono’s achievements include:
Grammy Award 1982 – “Double Fantasy” Album of the Year; Yoko Ono and John Lennon – Artists and Producers
MOJO Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 – from MOJO music magazine. London Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievemeent in Art 2009, awarded by Venice Bienniale, Venice, Italy
ArtTable Award 2010 – Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Yoko Ono is well known for her peace initiatives, first with events created with her husband John Lennon, Bed-In for Peace and War Is Over! (If You Want It), and more recently with her IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Iceland and participatory Wish Trees throughout the world.
Reflecting on her reputation for being outrageous, Yoko smiles and says, "I do have to rely on my own judgement, although to some people my judgement seems a little out of sync. I have my own rhythm and my own timing, and that's simply how it is."
Project:
IMAGINE PEACE
If one billion people in the world think peace - we'll get peace.
You may think "how are we going to get one billion people to think PEACE?"
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world.
Power works in mysterious ways.
Visualize the domino effect, and just start thinking PEACE.
Thoughts are infectious.
Send it out.
The message will circulate faster than you think.
It's time for action.
The action is PEACE.
Spread the WORD.
Spread PEACE.
I love you.
yoko ono
Locations:
Ridout St N/O York St WS F/S ('War is Over')
Horton St E/O Richmond St F/W ('Imagine Peace')
