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The Working Glamour / Andreas Rumpfhuber

01 29th, 2010

From Monday, 26th May until Sunday, 1st June 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono work publicly in bed. From there they are present in all of North America, are ON AIR. They give interviews via telephone, welcome guests from their bed and work in dense spatial conditions for their mission: Peace for the World. Timothy Leary and his wife Rosmary, Rabbi and peace activist Abraham Feinberg and others visit the two. The song Give Peace a Chance is recorded in the rearranged hotel room in which the king-sized bed is positioned centrally at the huge panorama window that would frame the vista like a theatre stage behind the big cushions. Flowers are placed on the wooden board at the window, both slogans of the ‘Bed-In’, ‘Hair-Peace’ and ‘Bed-Peace’, are scribbled on slips of paper behind the bed. The spatial practice of John and Yoko is not interested in a truth or essence in architecture. Appropriating the hybrid space of the hotel they are interested in creating an alternative way of living.

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