Yoko Ono's prophetic vision of self-care
- Written by Brigid Cohen, Associate Professor of Music, New York University
To Yoko Ono, imaginative acts were a form of survival.Susan Wood/Getty ImagesLight a match and watch till it goes out. Go to the middle of Central Park Pond and drop all your jewelry. Scream against the sky.
When a young Yoko Ono formulated these actions in the 1950s and 1960s, they heralded a bracingly quirky vision for the arts as a therapeutic...