Wish Tree (Yoko Ono art series)
Wish Tree is an ongoing
.Her 1996 Wish Piece had the following instructions:
Make a wish. Write it down on a piece of paper. Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree. Ask your friends to do the same. Keep wishing. Until the branches are covered with wishes.[2]
Installations have involved from one to 21 trees, and varieties include
History
The series developed after an installation of one tree in Finland grew into a mini-forest, and Ono felt a continuing social need. She has also said:
As a child in Japan, I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people's wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.[1]
In fall 2010, Ono performed Voice Piece for Soprano, near the
Locations
Year | City or country | Institution or group, if known | Title, if known | Tree type, if known | Other |
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Before 1996 | Finland[1] | ||||
1996 | Valencia, Spain[5]
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incomplete short citation ]
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2002 | San Francisco[7] | SFMoMA | |||
Exeter, England[8]
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2003 | Venice, Italy
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection | Wish Tree Venice 2003. To Peggy with Love x Yoko | olive tree[9]
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Permanent installation |
2007 | Washington, DC
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Hirshhorn Museum gardens
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Wish Tree for Washington, DC | dogwood[10]
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São Paulo[8] | |||||
2008 | Pasadena, California | One Colorado shopping center | Wish Tree for Pasadena | 21 crepe myrtle trees
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Permanently installed at Arlington Garden, Pasadena |
2009 | Palo Alto, California | Stanford University campus | two lemon trees[11] | ||
Tokyo[8] | |||||
2010 | New York City[4] | MoMA
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Oberlin, Ohio[8] | Oberlin College | ||||
2012 | New York City | Occupy Wall Street (Zuccotti Park) | Wish Tree for Zuccotti Park | Project altered to distribution of 10,000 postcards after fall 2011 police raid of park[12] | |
Dublin | Wish Tree for Ireland[13] | ||||
London | Serpentine Galleries | Wish Tree for London | |||
2012-13 | Brooklyn, New York[14]
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Brooklyn Museum | |||
2013 | St. Louis[15] | Saint Louis Art Museum | |||
Sydney, Australia
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Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney | Wish Tree for Sydney[16] | six eucalyptus[17] | ||
2014 | Orlando[18] and Tampa, Florida[19] | Hard Rock Cafe locations | |||
2016 | Manhattan Beach, California | Manhattan Beach Art Center | Wish Tree for Manhattan Beach | unknown | Temporary installation |
Buenos Aires, Argentina | MALBA | Part of Yoko Ono retrospective | |||
2018 | New York City | Performa 17 | unknown | Temporarily installed at festival headquarters[20] | |
2019 | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
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Blickachsen | Wish Trees for Bad Homburg[21] | apple tree[21] |
References
- ^ a b c d "Yoko Ono's Wish Trees". Imagine Peace Tower website.
- ISBN 0-81094-587-8.
- ^ "Multimedia: Voice Piece for Soprano & Wish Tree. At MoMA. Summer 2010 by yoko ono". moma.org. Retrieved Nov 20, 2014.
- ^ a b "Pharrell Williams Wrote a Pretty Cool Wish on Yoko Ono's Wish Tree". N.Y. Observer. June 6, 2013.
- ^ "Imagine....Yoko Ono in Pasadena, Folio" (PDF). Pasadena Arts Council. July 2008. p. 1.
- ^ Munroe et al. 2000, p. 266.
- ^ "yes Yoko Ono First American Retrospective of Pioneering Artist on View at SFMoMA in Only West Coast Presentation (press release)". sfmoma.org. Jan 22, 2002.
- ^ a b c d Gurney, Sari. "Exhibitions by Yoko Ono". Retrieved Nov 20, 2014.
- ^ "Yoko Ono". Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Retrieved Nov 20, 2014.
- ^ "Yoko Ono, Imagine Peace. Street Scenes: Projects for DC. Inauguration 2009" (PDF). streetscenesdc.com. Jan 13, 2009.
- ^ Haven, Cynthia (December 19, 2008). "Yoko Ono to speak at Stanford, Stanford Report". Stanford University.
- ^ Levin, Sam (Jan 14, 2012). "Yoko Ono (Not Present) Promotes Peace at Zuccotti; Occupiers Proceed to 'Drop Dead'". Village Voice.
- ^ "Yoko Ono receives a lifetime achievement award in Dublin | Irish Entertainment in Ireland and Around the World". IrishCentral. June 28, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ^ "Exhibitions: Wish Tree". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved Nov 20, 2014.
- ^ "Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at Saint Louis Art Museum". Blouin Art Info. August 19, 2013.
- ^ "Museum of Contemporary Art Photo: Wish Tree – Yoko Ono". TripAdvisorUK. 2000. Retrieved Nov 20, 2014.
- ^ "News: MCA Insight: War Is OVer! (if you want it): Yoko Ono". Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Retrieved Nov 20, 2014.
- ^ "News: Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos Takes Part in 7th Annual Imagine There's No Hunger Campaign Invites Guests and Fans to Take Park in Wish Tree". Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos. Nov 10, 2014.
- ^ "Seminole Hard Rock Hotels & Casino Tampa to Participate in Seventh Annual Imagine There's No Hunger Campaign". Tampa Bay Newswire. Nov 13, 2014.
- ^ "Performa 17". February 2018.
- ^ a b "Wish Trees for Bad Homburg" (in English and German). Blickachsen 12.