While on the subject (see previous post), here's a band of four young glamorpusses doing a tribute to Ono's legendary Cut Piece (originally performed in 1964 and more recently in 2003).
An even more glamorpuss take on the band can be seen in this video.
A film of Ono perfoming Cut Piece.
A description of the piece:
Ono’s work related destruction to interpersonal, often intimate, human
relations. This element was particularly thought-provoking in Cut
Piece. Ono sat motionless on the
stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing,
covering her breasts at the moment of unbosoming. Cut Piece entailed a
disrobing, a denouement of the reciprocity between exhibitionism and
scopic desires [scopic being a belabored way of saying the experience that the subject goes through in its interaction with the other] between victim and assailant, between sadist and
masochist: and, as a heterosexual herselft, Ono unveiled the gendered
relationship of male and female subjects as objects for each other. Kristine Stiles, 1998
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