To start May’s month-long expedition into the underground art scene surrounding the malicious-grinned mountebank Andy Warhol, this week’s newest addition to the ever-expanding WRITE BRAIN TV Radical Library is a groundbreaking interactive performance art book by Japanese multimedia experimental avant-gardist Yoko Ono.

Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933 and lived through the city’’s firebombing during WW2, Ono spent time in the US as a child before officially moving to New York in 1952 to attend Sarah Lawrence College, where she eventually dropped out and married experimental Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, and was soon introduced to avant-garde composer John Cage.

Cage was at the fore of a burgeoning Duchampian Neo-Dadist art movement later called Fluxus, a conceit that emphasized live performance art and spontaneity. Ono picked up on Cage’s ‘event scores’, brief interactive prompts that prescribe practitioners to turn everyday life into an organic art piece.

“Hit a wall with your head” or “Select a clock … You may rewind the clock but never reset it … Live accordingly” become quasi-Buddhist commands for taking intimate note of your surroundings and appreciating the underlying mechanisms of modernity so often taken for granted.

Slanderously known as “the woman who broke up The Beatles”, a lazily misinformed and spurious claim that has haunted her for far too long, Ono was in fact an innovative experimentalist and internationally respected intermediary artist years before her prolific partnership with John Lennon.

Write Brain TV is proud to present Mother Superior’s deliriously strange Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings.