Archive for March, 2008

yoko ono flashlight

Here’s a great piece of merch that also turned the audience into a really big group of performance artists. The event is documented on her web site. Here’s how she explains it:

“This is because I feel that now in this world there is so little to love, because everybody is frightened, confused and angry and so there is not very much love in the world. (She shows the little flashlight) so I want to promote love and I thought of a morse code. A morse code is S.O.S that kind of thing and I don’t know how I would like to do it, not to say S.O.S, but to say I love you to each other, so I brought this set twisted code and then you think like C.O.D.E, like a message, and so Chord like in music ,so it’s called Onochord, C.H.O.R.D. I think it would be very nice…I think I brought about… (she turns to the head of the press conference and asks him how many of these?… Head of the press conference: four thousand). Four thousand! Yes four thousand! (Smiling openly) I brought about four thousand of these, so I want to give up away these little flashlights and you say I..(she flash one time)… Love…(she flash two times) …You...(she flashes three times while smiling), and the reasons why it is that way like I is one, Love is two, You is three (and flashes again), is because I wanted to make it very simple, so all of us do it”