by Claudia Beggiato

Instruction Pieces (Yoko Ono )
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PAINTING TO ENLARGE AND SEE (1961)

Write five hundred telephone numbers on a canvas in a space as large as your palm. The numbers can be overlapped with one another. Also, the numbers can all be the same. Observe the drawing by enlarging it with a microscope. Also, you may take a picture of the drawing and enlarge it to the size you prefer.
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SNOW PIECE (1963)

Think that snow is falling. Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time. When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and on the person. Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow.
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FLY PIECE (SUMMER 1963)

Fly.
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COUGH PIECE (WINTER 1961)

Keep coughing during a year
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BOX PIECE (SPRING 196Y)

Buy as many boxes.
Ask your wife to select one.
Dream Together.
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Note: You can print this page, cut each instruction
and give it to someone you´d like to watch performing this
for you.( That Piece could be called : Dictator Piece)

 

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