1. Write on what this work is about.
During the Vietnam War, in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal, which were their non-violent ways of protesting wars and promoting peace.
Amsterdam bed-in
Knowing their marriage would be a huge press event, the couple decided to use the publicity to promote world peace. They spent their honeymoon in the presidential suite at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel for a week between March 25 and 31, inviting the world's press into their hotel room every day between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. After having posed nude on the cover of their album,the Two Virgins album, the press were expecting them to be having sex, but instead the couple were sitting in bed talking about peace with signs over their bed reading "Hair Peace" and "Bed Peace". After seven days, they flew to Vienna, Austria, where they held a Bagism press conference.
Montreal Bed-in
Their second Bed-In was planned to take place in New York, but Lennon was not allowed into the country because of his cannabis conviction in 1968. Thus they had to hold the event in the Bahamas at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel, but after experiencing the heat for a day, they decided to move to Montreal on May 26 where they stayed in Room 1738 and 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. During their seven day stay, they invited Timothy Leary, Tommy Smothers, Dick Gregory, and Al Capp. All of them except Capp sang on the peace anthem Give Peace a Chance, recorded in the hotel room on June 1. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation conducted interviews from the hotel room.
2. Do you consider this as art? Why or why not?
Yes, this is possibly art. A performance art.
I'm thinking that it is a movement to send a message across and the medium here would be the performace. Artworks are meant to express and show something and in this case, it is world peace and to stop war.
Thats pretty much it.
This performance is art and it has managed to get its message across to a great deal of people i guess.
World peace. :)
