Use your body as an art tool (Resistive messages thrown in history and age)

Use your body as an art tool. Resistive messages thrown in history and age.
The body is a mediating medium for me and other people to meet various situations in the world, and a social place where real politics such as power, capital and knowledge operate. The body was an important reality belonging to the whole human life, and since the 1960s many artists actively used the body as an art medium.

March 1965 New York Carnegie Recital Hall. A woman in black two-piece is sitting on the stage. The visitor cuts the girl's clothes with scissors and takes the piece according to the instructions. This piece of work, entitled "Cut piece," is a work that has created a sensation, reminiscent of violence against women and fear of war. The women on stage are Yoko Ono, who is famous for "John Lennon's Woman." The performance ends when a woman's bra strap is cut off.

Ai weiwei sets the stage for the cultural revolution in China with the performance of dropping ceramics (1995), which is supposed to be a relic of the Han Dynasty in 20 BC. It is a gesture of criticism aimed at Mao Zedong, who destroyed the tradition by saying, 'If we destroy old things, we can create a new world.'

August, 1962 Wiesbaden City Museum, Germany. A young man dipped his head in a container of ink and tomato juice, then took it out and crawled on a piece of paper on the floor and wrote 'writing'. The name of this man who showed the gesture of traditional destruction by demonstrating 'Il-pil' with his hair rather than a brush is Nam June Paik. Later, he became a world-renowned video artist. He first made his name in Europe with his performance of "Respect for John Cage" and "Good for the Head".

Ono has been a key member of Paik Nam June Paik and Fluxus, a vanguard artistic movement in New York in the 1960s, and has been a friend for 40 years. In April, he performed Nam June Paik performance at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, New York, USA. Paik had a crush on Ono Yoko.