Cut Piece

Cut Piece

8 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1965

Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist herself, Ono sits motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing in a denouement of the reciprocity between victim and assailant.

Cut Piece

8 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1965

Cut Piece
Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist herself, Ono sits motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing in a denouement of the reciprocity between victim and assailant.
Producers
Original title Cut Piece
Directors David Maysles, Albert Maysles
Writers

Cast

Yōko Ono

as Herself