Experimental Universe is a program of events featuring films, music and performances created by Australian artists responding to Yoko Ono’s rarely-visited instructional works, Six Film Scripts (1964) and Imaginary Film Series (1968). The program also includes two film screenings of early Yoko Ono films, Apotheosis (1970) and Two Virgins (1968).

Single Screen Installation

Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Sydney, Yoko Ono Restrospective “Experimental Universe”

https://otherfilm.org/deathofaking

DEATH OF THE KING is a response to the Yoko Ono Film Script No. 4 “ASK THE AUDIENCE TO STARE AT THE SCREEN UNTIL IT BECOMES BLACK.”

An assembly of material shot in Cambodia in 2013 during the Cambodia King-Father Norodom Sihanouk’s funeral – a week long period of national mourning in which millions of Cambodians swarmed to Phnom Penh to grieve for the loss of their beloved leader. The profoundly overwhelming nature of this mass grieving seemed to resonate with the notion of an audience literally collectively willing an image out of existence. Courtin-Wilson chose to read the action of the screen turning black as being due to the audiences collective will rather than something imposed on an audience by the filmmaker/artist.