i but let's get straight underway with the yoko ono exhibition and scott is just back from the opening and in a way actually there's a connection there she's also an iconic figure in rock n roll ready yeah you know really yeah of course i mean but it's interesting because before this exhibit i think i was thinking about yoko ono and what i what i think about her and i guess i mean i think we also have an image of her but it's really directly connected to you know her ladyship with with john lennon and i always really if i'm honest i thought of her more or less just the wife of a job by the you know and you know the people the person the people of the beatles and or whatever but and the one who then went on to make some really strange music with john lennon and the plastic ono band if you remember that so that was my idea going into this exhibit but the this exhibit from in leipzig it's called pieces power and it displaced sixty years of our work i didn't even know she had that much artwork to show and i think it could really change the way we think about yoko ono

i was at the opening and right to the very last minute we weren't sure if she was going to show up or not ok right without further ado let's have a look at the exhibition. musicians and it's like the world will end as they perform. yoko ono created this work piece to jesus christ in one thousand nine hundred sixty five it recalls the victims of hiroshima and of its wars. the band plays on until it can no more until the music. this night without you. so in the end the artist isn't present in life but that doesn't really matter because no oh no very specific instructions on what is supposed to happen here are . the instructions to this audience play carpenter and create the work yourself this artwork according to legend. is the one that yoko ono and john lennon met q.

over it was at an exhibit in london and john asked yoko if he could hammer a nail into the artwork yoko said yes that's going to cost you five shelly's so john said well i'll pay you five imaginary show shillings and then i'll hammer it in an imaginary nail now i'll have five shillings but i do have a hammer and i have a nail and i have a hammer and am made my catholic wife forgive me. violence and the murder of john lennon goes through this installation called the family portrait. me and the whole. troop play climbs the idea of the piece is to look through the hole and see violence in perspective of the victim. her art is one of ideas not a statics a room of makeshift coffins built like those after a massacre trees represent rebirth john hendricks yoko ono's long time friend

thinks the art world is finally recognizing her contribution she basically invented a new set of conceptual ideas long before others did for instance. instructions for paving. she didn't need to make the paintings just in structures for things that make sixty. yoko ono was always ahead of her time. but her themes wore feminism the plight of refugees are more urgent now than ever. and yoko ono's work we're all asked to take part. we're all artists who can change the world. i think this exhibit with a lot of preconceptions about yoko ono but i'm coming away after having seen all this work with an understanding of how groundbreaking how how influential and also

how funny she is as an artist and that you only really deserves her own place in our history. only as work arising. made years before me to abuse women sent in photos of their eyes paired with personal stories of their abuse. in life sing one can discover a different feminist and fascinating yoko ono. well it seems you were just surprised to him i should be impressed i say yeah i was i said i didn't really know what to expect going going in and becoming out i realize i know the image i had of yoko ono was incredibly ignorant first off but also i guess really sexist i mean the idea that i only. connected her with this famous man that she happened to be married to and didn't even know about all the amazing work that she'd done before and i think really groundbreaking work i mean this was a woman she co-founded. in in new york and so basically created this

conceptual art as we know it and also these forms of performance art that went on to inspire and continue to inspire you know a whole generation of art until you know when you actually took place in a bit of performance art was still a little bit she did in the report you took place in a performance in the exhibition exhibition actually opened with a recreation of a performance piece that basically made you whole most famous it was in one nine hundred sixty three piece and this one was performed by another artist called eco morgan and basically the performance piece is this the woman comes out on stage she's dressed in a suit has a pair of scissors she sits down on the stage and then she asked the audience to calm and start clipping off pieces of her clothes usually people are a bit you know president they don't want to do it then people start getting into it in star search start cutting off pieces that are pieces. took me a while as well but i thought i'm here i might as well get of also i got up i

started to cut off and you know actually chop off a pretty major chunk of fabric which i actually still have with me. i brought with me i have to say though it's strange it seems quite simple the idea but the experience itself is really quite moving i mean it's also credibly intimate you can see this half naked on a stage you're up doing with feels like a an act of violence towards her and i felt sort of strangely i don't know confused and in the shade that it was doing it but also i felt like i was performing a role as well which i don't know it says a lot about you can reflect about what it says about society what it says about how we view women and so forth what isn't says about about and this is a piece this is one thousand nine hundred sixty three couple of years before she met john lennon this is this is hugely impressive and really you know i don't know why. or really in terms of kind of its performance and you talked about your preconceptions mine too i have to and so many people's i mean as a manager said in the report i mean it seems she was

a way ahead of her yeah i definitely think so and that's i didn't realize this but you look at all these artists who are inspired by i mean a marina abramovic is perhaps the the one that really stands out for me as a performance artist she's known for doing things very similar to what yoko didn't cut piece putting herself on stage interacting directly to the audience i mean the threat of physical violence done to her but she did it decades after yoko ono she had taken a lot further and made a lot more extreme but you can see that there's some of the other artist that you can look at and if you know the art of that you who was doing even way back in the sixty's you can definitely point to and say yes she's doing those exact same things decades before and people in the art world of have recognized this finally and now she's getting really getting her place where she really deserves her own place in the history of our it seems of five in this exhibition thank you very much but don't go away because i know you like your music and you might be interested in this. music fans of always being fascinated by the instruments that their idols

play and at the metropolitan museum in new york an exhibition is about to open featuring some of the classic news go instruments of rock and roll from blues legend muddy waters telecaster to john lennon's twelve string record back and right up to date with lady gaga piano an absolute treasure trove for music lovers. it was the start of a revolution i. i . i and now the up spaces of the net museum in new york being filled by the icons of rock n roll. using a cornucopia of instruments play it loud is taking on the history of the genre that changed music forever it's a great time because this is one of the most important artistic movements of our

lifetimes and generations now rock n roll is seventy years seventy plus years old and there are still a lot of living legends who could participate who could lends their objects and lend their expertise to the show and that they did the collection boasts more than one hundred thirty pieces on loan from some of rock n roll's biggest names. the beatles ring goes star eddie van halen band keith richards of rolling stones fame to name just a few the exhibition is organized the magically and looks at how musicians embrace the merging technologies play it loud can be heard as well as seen taking part is a source of pride for eagles legend don felt. hanging on the wall here at the metropole. you know bart is probably the highest accolade the highest honor i could get the first and third biggest selling album

a history of recorded take those roles really wonderful things these the men i think this is the steps of that to say the truth is so much. like a rock n roll stock can be a rough one and many instruments and not in the best meet rock n roll also made the destruction of the instruments themselves upon the performance like this one from the night because i must go i wanted you to hang on in there go i knew that was coming at you and kurt cobain's could touch the twenty fifth anniversary just apollo's of his death something that stunned a generation your generation really really everywhere talk about this before the show i remember so clearly hearing about his his death i mean at the fact of my generation i think that probably the generation before with john lennon his death had and i remember just going on the street to one when the when that happened and

people hear people crying and were distraught. it's strange to think about it now but i think it's something about his and his music and his lyrics really spoke to spoke to me and spoke to basically all the people i knew at the at the time and it wasn't just with the sort of i know the angsty teenage expression that he gave it's something about the way he captured irony and the irony of our generation and how we use both ironic and authentic at the same time and had some of the like the beatles kick ass lyrics in history and that actually i have to say had a kickass voice as well a voice for the only general for the young generation scott great to have you here thanks very much for being with us and thank you for watching we leave you with music from.

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