Cut Piece

Yoko Ono's Cut Piece, was a piece of performance art, performed July 20th 1964. Yoko Ono knelt on stage for a period of time, and asked members of the audience to come up one by one, and cut off a piece of her dress. At first people were quite intimidated by the idea, cutting only small amounts from around the sleeves, but after people lost some of their inhibitions, larger pieces were cut.
Yoko Ono's piece explores crossing boundaries, and questions what those boundaries are and why they are there. The performance piece is one of many that can also be interpreted to respond to ideas about violence against women. 1964 was around the start of the second-wave feminism revolution.