Six Instructions for Films

Yoko Ono pioneered the conceptual practice that employed the written instruction as art. She is using instructions as a kind of score, encouraging the audience’s direct participation. The film instructions are often strikingly beautiful in their simplicity and content. They invoke the imagination at the same time as rooting the works very much within a social context. The ‘instructions for films’ are possibly less well known than Ono’s other instruction works, despite six of them also being included in her seminal 1964 book Grapefruit. This series is a reprint of these six. A different postcard will be distributed each day, free for those attending the Seatless Cinema. (Ian White)
Produced in collaboration with The Artist’s Cinema/ Frieze Art Fair / Lux .