Week 6:Response to Yoko Ono (Selina Chang)

After reading through the interview of Yoko Ono, I was really impressed by some of her ideas. First of all, I was impressed by the notion of interpreting the sound of nature by using musical notes.  Then I found that I was impossible to actually translate natural sound into music pieces, since the sound of nature is indeed intricate that they cannot simply be replaced by the tones on the piano.  Then she raised the idea that art shouldn’t be fixed and took her conceptual art book Grapefruit for instance. She indicated that there shouldn’t be an absolute value of art work and everyone can has his or her own interpretation, which enable them to make changes to existing art pieces. The idea of the Instruction is the most impressive of all in my perspective. The notion of getting people involved in the art creating process actually help the art itself to prosper. Similar to her Wish Tree idea, I think to get all involved in the process of art is of the most importance. It is this notion that will enable people to create new art on the basis of predecessors’. 

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