Grapefruit (1961)

Grapefruit by Yoko Ono is a seminal conceptual work composed of short “instruction pieces” or event scores – brief textual prompts that propose actions, situations, or thoughts rather than fixed artworks. Combining elements of poetry, musical notation, and performance, the works transform everyday gestures into open-ended situations shaped by the participant’s interpretation. Some instructions can be realized physically, while others remain deliberately impossible, existing only in the imagination. First developed in the early 1960s, the scores became central to Ono’s conceptual and Fluxus practice, challenging the idea of the artwork as a fixed object. The work collapses distinctions between art and life, positioning imagination itself as a primary site of creation

Published by the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden for the manifestation FLUXUS SEX TIES (2022).

Courtesy of Gallery A.