The Sack - SKETCHLINE

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1964

The Sack

author

Yoko Ono

description

Participants from the audience, a black bag (performance).

The main idea of the performance is to make people discard all external factors and conventions in order to discover a new understanding of human nature. Two people were asked to undress and go inside a huge black bag. When the participants were inside, the lights went out and they, being in complete darkness and devoid of the usual things that surround every person every second, could rethink a lot about their life in a few minutes. This performance had an unusual effect not only on the participants inside but also on the audience of the show since the bag of people had an odd shape and resembled living stones.