#YOKO ONO GRAPEFRUIT MAP PIECE SERIES#

(See more of Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project here.) ‘Map of the Future’ by designer John Maeda In 2009, Wired magazine founding editor and digital culture sage Kevin Kelly asked people to draw a map of the internet as they pictured it, illustrating what he had in mind by drawing his own map. Maps are always a going-beyond the space-time of the present.

Obrist remarks on this approach in a companion essay titled “You Are Here”:ĭialogue, conversation and exchange between different fields is the only way we can chart a course through the increasingly complex terrain of contemporary life… Maps produce new realities much as they seek to document current ones. The volume’s greatest gift and highest point of differentiation is, in fact, precisely the sensibility for which Obrist is known and celebrated - the bold cross-pollination of disciplines, which invites the various fields to enrich one another, a beacon whose aggregate beam illuminates the landscape of the unknown. With more than 130 maps by a wide-ranging roster of luminaries spanning art, science, technology, literature, architecture, film, and more - including John Baldessari, Tim Berners-Lee, Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono, Kevin Kelly, Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, John Maeda, Sean Carroll, Douglas Rushkoff, and Marcus du Sautoy - the book offers a living reminder that rather than objective representations of reality, maps are invariably projections in both the literal and the metaphorical sense, projecting onto the world the mapmaker’s subjective, abstract, psychoemotionally charged ideas about what is real and meaningful. Just when it might seem like the world doesn’t need another book about maps, Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies ( public library | IndieBound) - a magnificent compendium envisioned and culled by legendary curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - proves otherwise. We’ve applied it to everything from understanding time to ordering the cosmos. We’ve found in cartography a tool of propaganda and a springboard for philosophy, a canvas for art and a vehicle for idealism. It is no surprise, then, that maps captivate our imagination so powerfully. The work “Imagine Map Piece” is shown in the foyer, and the exhibition continues from here into the city and extends to the rest of country in the form of posters, billboards and stamps.For all the spiritual benefits of getting lost, we humans are habitually driven to orient ourselves to the world and find our place in it.

#YOKO ONO GRAPEFRUIT MAP PIECE SERIES#

The Kunsthal’s cinema screens a series of rare films, dating back to the early ‘60s Japan, where Yoko Ono already made significant artistic contributions, which the rest of the world became familiar with throughout the ‘70s. The exhibition is shown in two galleries on the first floor of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, with sound installations in the staircase space and the elevator. At the same time, the exhibition portrays how Yoko Ono as an avant-garde artist suddenly became part of the epicentre of popular culture. The exhibition includes scans of her original typescripts for “Grapefruit”, an original “War Is Over!” poster, rare popular record sleeves (for example from the early Plastic Ono Band), flyers for exhibitions, newspaper ads, photographs of “Bed-In for Peace” and “Word Piece” billboards from around the world, films, participatory installations. The exhibition focuses on Yoko Ono’s publications, printed matter in the widest sense, and on how the artist has been able to disseminate her work, from small whispers to be broadcast through mass media. In the late ‘60s and ‘70s, together with John Lennon, she did Bed-Ins for Peace, press conferences in bags, and wrote songs that questioned war and discrimination against women and all peoples. Using advertising spaces in magazines and newspapers, postcards, TV, radio, posters, record covers, books, and even sky-writing, she has been able to reach out to individuals as well as great masses of people. The concept of the exhibition is to reactivate the works once again and show them as they were originally intended, thus the works also extend beyond the Kunsthal into the city of Copenhagen and the rest of Denmark, and by extension, the world. The exhibition “Transmission” explores the unique ways in which the Yoko Ono transmits her profound messages of artistic philosophy and peace through numerous channels to reach people throughout the World. “In Cloud Piece” (1963) for example, she instructs us to imagine digging a hole in the garden, and putting clouds into it. In the ’60s, Yoko Ono became increasingly involved in conceptual art, especially in performance, as an occasional member of Fluxus, she rejected the idea that an artwork must be a material object.

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