Give Peace A Chance x 40

Forty years ago today, John Lennon and Yoko Ono used a Montreal bed to stage a highly influential art action. They were protesting peace in the midst of massive public demonstrations against the Vietnam war.

This video combines their anthem with footage from Montreal and massive protests in major American cities:    Give Peace A Chance

What makes the bed a stage for displays of social revolt or activism? It is an object that seems to expect human involvement or participation of the most vulnerable kind.  It is the place where we give up consciousness to sleep or to the intimacy with another. The site of a bed implies that we share with others the need for comfort and protection. It reminds us of pleasure and deep peace. Its presence in art or in an activist display, is enough to make us remember and sympathize with those who are without a bed or without peace and safety at night, at a time when their bodies are most trying to free the self of the daytime demands of consciousness. We can feel it.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Art currently has on exhibition:  Imagine: the Peace Ballad of John & Yoko

(Let me tell you now)
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Revolution, Evolution, Masturbation, Flagellation, Regulation,
Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(from www.absolutelyrics.com )

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