"Bed-ins for Peace" by Yoko Ono and John Lennon

1. Write on what this work is about.

John and Yoko two met in London in November 1966. Their first album collaboration, "Two Virgins," showed nude photos of the lovers front and back, and was banned. On March 20, 1969, the couple wed. The following week, the two master media manipulators used their celebrity for good, hosting a honeymoon "bed-in" for peace in room 902, the presidential suite of the Amsterdam Hilton. The press avidly pursued them, assuming that the famous nudists would make love for their cameras. Instead, the pajama-clad newlyweds spoke out about world peace. It was the honeymoon as performance art, interlaced with a protest against the Vietnam War. Lennon's "The Ballad of John and Yoko" chronicles the week in song: "Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton / Talking in our bed for a week / The news people said / 'Hey, what you doin' in bed?'/ I said, 'We're only tryin' to get us some peace!'"

(Yoko Ono is a Fluxus artist)

2. Do you consider this as art? Why or why not?

Yes I do consider this art. However, it is not just any typical painting or sculpture. It is performence art.

Performence art: Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience.

The performers' bodies (Yoko Ono and John Lennon) were used in the space of the room to transmit an important message to the world with the help of the media. Their message in this work would be world peace. It was also a protest again the Vietnam war.