24-Hour Performance T.V. to See the Sky, Inspired by Yoko Ono’s SKY T.V.

Presented by the Feminist Center for Creative Work and the Getty Research Institute on June 21, 2021

A 24-hour video stream of the sky on the June solstice, inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky T.V.

Sky TV for Washington, 1966/2014, Yoko Ono. Closed-circuit video installation. Dimensions variable. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2016

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In collaboration with Yoko Ono, the Getty Research Institute and the Feminist Center for Creative Work will join more than 50 arts institutions around the world to present a live 24-hour video streaming of the sky via Zoom to audiences at home in celebration of the Solstice and Strawberry Moon Eclipse.

This event is inspired by Yoko Ono’s second conceptualization of Sky T.V. in 1967 for the Lisson Gallery, which she described as “a TV just to see the sky. Different channels for different skies, high-up sky, low sky, etc.”

SKY T.V. 1966 (furniture piece) was a video sculpture described by Ono as “a closed circuit T.V. set up in the gallery for looking at the sky”. It broadcast a live video feed of the sky from above the building where it was installed—a way to bring the sky inside, even if a space lacked windows.

At a time of profound revolution and reflection, restricted travel but great desire for connection, we seek to draw upon Ono’s invocation of the sky as a space of generative possibility and renewal as well as a territory beyond the reach of capital and ownership.

The free event takes place at 5:42am PT on June 21, 2021. Register in advance online, or watch the livestream on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel.

The participating institutions include:

  • Albertinum (Dresden State Art Collections), Dresden, Germany
  • Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Art Exchange, Colchester, UK
  • Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
  • Artsonje, Seoul, South Korea
  • Asia Art Archive in America, India & Hong Kong
  • Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US
  • Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
  • British Antarctic Survey, Halley Research Station, Antarctica
  • Casa de la Cultura Tijuana, Mexico
  • Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
  • Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • Collaborative Cataloguing Japan, Philadelphia, US
  • Contemporary Calgary, Canada
  • Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, US
  • Dashboard US, Atlanta, US
  • Feminist Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, US
  • Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan
  • Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, US
  • Greenland National Museum and Archives, Nuuk, Greenland
  • Group Locale, Tunis, Tunisia
  • Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., US
  • Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, US
  • Houston Center for Photography, Texas, US
  • Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, US
  • Interstitial Press, Australia
  • Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, US
  • Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
  • Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  • M+, Hong Kong
  • Malmö Könsthall, Sweden
  • Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Museum of Art & Design, San José, Costa Rica
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  • Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, Poland
  • National Gallery Singapore
  • Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, US
  • Rangi Gallery & ARK Artist Residency Program, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Recess Art, Brooklyn, US
  • Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
  • Rice Brewing Sisters Club, Anseong, South Korea
  • SALT, Istanbul, Turkey
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  • Schaumbad, Graz, Austria
  • Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  • Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei City, Taiwan
  • Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  • TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, US
  • The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
  • Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • Wali Chafu Collective, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Womanifesto in Sydney, Australia; Udonthani, Thailand & Baroda, India
  • Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa
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