Decide you believe in fate and that things worked out for the best. Wonder about how things might have been different. Don’t care to figure it out because you can’t translate crazy.įeel bad for John Lennon. Think about the fact that each page probably means something. Then remember you’re not insane.īriefly think about how these instructions aren’t meant to be taken literally, how it’s an expression, a form of art. Then continue reading anyways because it’s assigned. But refuse to continue reading for that reason. Talk about how Yoko broke up the Beatles and killed John Lennon. Read out loud with a coworker at your place of business. Use no less than three different colored pens to do this. Logically prove them false, nonsensical, or even harmful. In most of the notes, draw from your knowledge of physics, astronomy, psychology, sociology, and rationality to deconstruct the instructions. Laugh with a coworker about the word whimsical. See the word “whimsical” on the back cover. Don’t care you spent too much money because you think this book will make you a better person. (favorite page: “This is not here.”) ‘Rooms’ is therefore not a book you ‘read’ as much as a book you refer to from time-to-time, much like you would appreciate a painting or a piece of music, while also serving as another example of her mind expanding fare for the world.Instructions for obtaining, reading, and disposing of Grapefruitīuy this book on amazon with two others for free s&h. Like ‘Grapefruit.’ (and much of Ono’s oeuvre) ‘The Other Rooms’ is complete minimalism at its best, with some pages left blank and most having merely a single sentence to their role as part of the story. Her art exhibitions are like nothing the world has seen, which, of course, is what attracted Beatle John (who arugably had ’seen it all’) to her side in the late 60’s. Of course, no one questions reality, time and space quite like Ms. Published as part of her exhibition ‘Anton’s Memory’ at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation at Palazzetto Tito in Venice, the book is divided into chapters on rooms (the Blue Room, Rooms and Footsteps, Rooms of Various Lightness and the Room to Work on Your Hometown In) as well as gardens, light passages and tools like the Space Transformer. The various ‘rooms’ serve to awaken the memory of a person named Anton, whose memories of his mother only exist in the form of a handful of sand that she left for him when she ‘disappeared step-by-step into oblivion.’ where there are no doors."įormatted much like her famed 60’s book ‘Grapefruit’ (or the minimalist Brian Eno/Peter Schmidt playing cards ‘Oblique Strategies’,) Yoko Ono returns with her de minimis view on storytelling through a series of imaginary rooms with walls that aren’t there. The Other Rooms is joyfully interactive in this sense, finding ways "to open doors. c) The army should wear drag (cocktail party-type flair skirts) and high-heel shoes with jewelry (earrings, etc.) Other sequences simply describe imaginary rooms, and invite the reader to inhabit them, or suggest new approaches to tasks such as gardening, or to one's hometown, all in the serenely open style for which Ono is so famed. b) A priest should wear a bright red suit with one sleeve and bell-bottom pants with his penis exposed at all times. Matching the satisfyingly compact size of Grapefruit, and beautifully bound in white cloth, The Other Rooms is conceived as a series of rooms that unfold the story of, in the words of the artist, "the life of a woman seeing through the eyes of her son." On page after page, or room after room, Ono walks the reader through her unique expression of motherly utopian pedagogy, providing observations and instruction "pieces" such as the following, for "Balance Piece" a) Politicians should wear pink transparent loose robes or pajama-like outfits without the bottoms at all times. The Other Rooms is a sequel to Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, a now classic artist's book that was first published in 1964 and became a cult classic following its wider distribution after 1970.
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