YOKO ONO AND GRAPEFRUIT

• conceptual performance art pieces
• fluxus art movement form the 60s-70s emphasising the artist’s process over the finished product
• ‘event score’ readings and performances
• Ono’s event scores read as poems — unlike many others which were made for performance
• natural language and environments/subjects
• dependent on pure imagination
• destroys the idea of ‘monastic thinking’

MOUTHS IN BAROQUE ART

• the mouth can convey multiple emotions at the same time
• brought humanisation to figures in the period — this always conveyed
• adds to the drama and movement/emotional exuberance

• the mouth is interesting to me as it is almost a vessel of life; the thing that is at the forefront of experiences — especially socially
• we talk, eat, love, communicate
• its quite mechanical in structure — teeth and jaw mechanics
• describes ideas of closeness and intimacy through breath and the essence of secrecy
• idea of communication — internally and externally

VIDEO LAYOUT

• tested different backgrounds
• version 1 with black background
• version 2 with shot of mouth with muted volume- conveys more intimacy
• sounds pan from left to right — more spatially aware
• coming together of voices creates some sort of ambience and timing in the speech some rhythm