MCA Presents WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT): YOKO ONO Exhibit, 11/15

By: Nov. 14, 2013
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) presents War Is Over! (if you want it): Yoko Ono, the first major survey in Australia of legendary artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono, curated by MCA Chief Curator Rachel Kent. The title comes from a text work by Ono and her husband John Lennon that first appeared in 1969 across public billboards in twelve cities worldwide, including New York and London. The exhibition encompasses five decades of practice in diverse media including eight participatory works. Themes include loss, conflict, humanity and the desire for world peace.

Exhibition highlights include Wish Tree for Sydney (1996/2013) in which visitors are invited to write their private wishes onto small paper cards and tie them to the branches of native Australian trees. Over time, the cards accumulate like blossoms, and the Wish Trees become symbolic of the collective power of our hopes and dreams. The major installation Telephone in Amaze (1971/2011) is a transparent, maze-like structure which visitors are invited to walk through. At its center sits a telephone which Ono rings periodically over the course of the exhibition, speaking to whoever answers her call.

Several works incorporate the sky such as Helmets / Pieces of Sky (2001), a suspended installation of World War II military helmets filled with jigsaw puzzle pieces of blue sky; or Sky TV (1966/2013), a closed-circuit direct video feed of the sky into the gallery from the MCA rooftop. Also featured is an archival room of ephemera spanning the 1960s to the present featuring posters, album recordings, conceptual objects, experimental films and the artist's self-published instruction book Grapefruit.

Yoko Ono, Photo: Matthu Placek

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