On the occasion of Yoko Ono’s 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4’s program includes Yoko in her own words from the BBC archive together with a collage of BBC interviews including Yoko’s contemporary and peer, Nye Ffarrabas (formerly Bici Forbes and Bici Hendricks) reminiscing.
Read MoreShe went to happenings with Allan Kaprow and on mushroom treks with John Cage. She was in a Yoko Ono film, performed in avant-garde festivals and dined with Marcel Duchamp. Nye Ffarrabas, aka Bici (Forbes) Hendricks, was a central figure in the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s. She and others created intermedia events that pushed the boundaries of prevailing norms in painting, sculpture, poetry, music and theater. They erased distinctions between art and life as they celebrated daily activities. Their radical aesthetics influenced subsequent postmodern performance and visual art.
Seven Days 27 (36) pp.32-34, article by John Killacky photo of Nye by Dona Ann McAdams
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