Research published on Yoko Ono's Grapefruit 'Room Pieces'

An article by Alexander Kusztyk titled, '"In-within-inner-non-un-insane-crazed": The "Insound" and "Instructure" of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit "Room Pieces"', has been published in the Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture's themed issue, 'Spaces' (2022).

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Abstract

This article will discuss four conceptual artworks titled 'Room Pieces', each appearing in Yoko Ono's Grapefruit. Three of these pieces instruct the individual to 'Stay in a room' for varying lengths of time and to conclude their performance with whispering. The fourth substitutes a person for a room and instructs the individual to 'Live on them'. Together these pieces offer a language of uncertain spaces manifesting within performed rooms. This article will consider both the artist's Zen expressiveness, and 'insound' and 'instructure' notation as methods of constructing and deconstructing spatialised rooms.



Front cover of Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture's issue no. 1

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