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 yoko at the bluecoat 2008

Yoko Ono live in Liverpool on April 4th.
“Returning 41 years after her first ever paid perfomance was given at the Bluecoat, Yoko Ono gives a special one hour live performance.” The show is sold out.

More information on the Bluecoat website.

Music of the Mind at the Bluecoat September 26th 1967

Yoko Ono performed at The Bluecoat Society of Arts in Liverpool under the title Music of the Mind, including The Fog Machine as part of Goodnight Piece.

According to Yoko Ono: Arias and Objects by Barbara Haskell and John G. Hanhardt, this performance (”concert”) was sponsored by the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) along with the other performance by the same title held at the Jeanette Cochrane Theatre in London in November 1966. These programmes included events by Yoko Ono: Fly Piece (members of the audience jumped off ladders simulating flying), Bag Piece, Fog Piece (Yoko Ono sitting in clouds of fog, with audience members wrapping her in gauze) and Sweep Piece (Yoko Ono sweeping the stage).

Yoko Ono: Arias and Objects by Barbara Haskell and John G. Hanhardt: “By 1965 Ono’s concerts were billed as “Music of the Mind”. By limiting her musical components to the sounds produced in the minds of each audience member, Ono intensified an internal stillness much like that featured in Zen meditation practice.”

Yoko Ono is giving Liverpool a “wishing tree” to be planted in the city centre.
The public will be invited to hang messages on the branches as part of the re-opening celebrations of the Bluecoat arts centre.

John Lennon’s widow will also give a show at the Bluecoat on April 4 – recalling her first appearance there as an artist in 1967.

The event details are described as “a surprise”, but it could well reflect Ms Ono’s original visit when she smashed a jug and gave out the pieces, suggesting people meet up again in years to come to reassemble the item.

Tickets for the show, costing £15, and available on the Bluecoat website from noon today, are expected to sell quickly.

The Yoko wishing tree, which will form part of a six-week exhibition, beginning on March 15, will later be planted in the Bluecoat’s garden courtyard.

The exhibition will also include a four-minute black and white TV film of Yoko’s 1967 visit – two years before she married John Lennon. She had been invited to Liverpool after a Liverpool art school teacher spotted her work at Alexandra Palace, London.

Bluecoat artistic director Bryan Biggs said: “This time she is doing a one-hour show.”

Yoko’s show will take place in the new 200-seater performance space – part of the Bluecoat’s £12.5m refurbishment.”

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