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Article: VISUAL ART: You call it art. I call it a load of old Fluxus Yoko Ono: Odyssey of a Cockroach ICA East LONDON
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2004
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One of the happier ironies of Yoko Ono's installation Odyssey of a
Cockroach is that its Google listing appears under an ad for insect
spray. Ever since the Japanese-born Fluxus artist made a film called
Fly back in 1970 - the so-called Fluxfilm starred a housefly crawling
over Ono's naked body - her work has identified itself with household
pests. And, like those pests, Ono's art has remained consistently
annoying. The question you ask as you walk around Odyssey of a
Cockroach is whether the annoyance you feel is one the artist
intended, or whether it's simply to do with her work being trite.
It's not as easy a question as you might think. One of the chief
tenets of Fluxus, an avant-garde ...