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Yoko Ono (b. 1933, Tokyo/Japan) is a pioneer of early conceptual art and participatory art, film and performance, a celebrated musician and an impressive campaigner for world peace. She moved to New York in 1953, where she lives and works today. She studied Music and Poetry there at the Sarah Lawrence College. In the 1960s she was part of the Fluxus movement. She participated at the Filmfestival Knokke with "Bottoms“ (1968); made the "bed-in" action in a hotel in Amsterdam with John Lennon (1969); and founded the Plastic Ono Band.

FLUXUS, Film, experimental films, performances, actions, objects, Installations, music, poetry, theater, conceptual art

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