Yoko Ono Inspired Scores (In the time of COVID-19)
Jennifer Karson
After an introduction to the work of Yoko Ono through examples from her book “Grapefruit” and watching the film “Above Us Only Sky” students (receiving our class teachings through remote learning and quarantined in their homes) created unique written scores and then engaged their communities of friends and family to act out the scores written by their peers in the class. Sometimes they distributed the scores to their roommates and sometimes they did it over Microsoft Teams to distant friends and family. Participants included grandparents, parents, siblings and roommates – many who had previously little exposure to the work of Ono or this strain of contemporary art.