Thursday, September 26, 2024

Yoko Ono | Yes Box









[Yoko Ono]
Yes Box
Lund, Sweden: Bakhall Printers & Publishers, 2004
14.5 x 13 x 1.5 cm
Edition size unknown


Yes Box - now twenty years old - is a white clamshell cardboard box containing two audio CDs, A Hole To See the Sky Through postcard, and a 32 page booklet, functioning as a catalogue of the travelling show Yes Yoko Ono. 

The exhibition was first presented by the Japan Society in New York City from October 2000 to January 2001, and then traveled to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto the following year. 

The booklet features examples of works from the retrospective including Cut Piece, Bottoms, Play It By Trust, Amaze, Ceiling Painting, Fly, War is Over!, Painting to Hammer a Nail, Erection, Wish Tree, Smile, Sky Machine and others. 

The first CD features an eighteen minute interview with Ono and the other contains two songs from her then-current LP Blueprint for a Sunrise ( "It's Time for Action" and "I'm Not getting Enough"). The booklet's title, Soul got out of the box, is also the name of a song from the same album.




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