Fifty-three years after Bed-In, Yoko Ono stages a new global intervention by pausing commercial advertisements on the world’s most prominent digital screens to share a message of peace with the global community. An invitation for the world to unite, Ono will broadcast her powerful, universal mantra IMAGINE PEACE every evening at 20:22.
The public art installation presented by CIRCA in collaboration with Serpentine, will feature local translations of Yoko Ono's message to the world. IMAGINE PEACE launched 3 March on London’s Piccadilly Lights and is screening across the CIRCA network every evening throughout March 2022.
20:22 GMT – LONDON, PICCADILLY LIGHTS - map
20:22 CET – BERLIN, LIMES, KURFÜRSTENDAMM - map
20:22 PST - LOS ANGELES, PENDRY WEST HOLLYWOOD - map
20:22 ACT – MELBOURNE, FED SQUARE - map
20:22 UTC – MILAN, LUXOTTICA, PIAZZALE CADORNA - map
20:22 EST - NEW YORK, LUXOTTICA,TIMES SQUARE - map
20:22 KST – SEOUL, COEX K-POP SQUARE - map
20:22 GMT – ONLINE, CIRCA.ART
Here is the map of the digital screens on which it Imagine Peace will be projected.
IMAGINE PEACE is a concept born from Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s tireless work as peace activists. In March 1969, the couple staged their first Bed-In - a weeklong peace protest from their honeymoon suite at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, boldly communicating their commitment to social justice. This new declaration for peace also marks Ono's return to London’s Piccadilly Circus, twenty years since she installed a poster carrying the message "Imagine all the people living life in peace" taken from the Lennon-Ono anthem – “Imagine” in March 2002.
Yoko Ono’s invitation to IMAGINE PEACE has been expressed since the early 2000s through billboards, advertisements, posters and tweets.
Yoko Ono, photo Matthew Placek ©Yoko Ono
“Imagining,” said Ono, “is something that we can all do, even when we have different opinions about how to get there.”
In 2007, in memory of John Lennon Ono conceived the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Viðey Island off the coast of Reykjavík, Iceland, a tower of beaming light, which represents wisdom and love, and acts as a beacon for all those wishing to contribute to world peace.
A limited edition print by Yoko Ono is available to purchase on CIRCA.ART for £100. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the United Nations CERF.
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), one of the fastest and most effective ways to ensure that urgent humanitarian assistance, including food, clean water, medicine, education and shelter, reaches people in need whenever and wherever crises strike.
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CIRCA is a digital art and culture platform with purpose. We stop the clock on global media spaces every evening at 20:22 and mobilise the world’s greatest creative minds to broadcast unique works that consider our world today, circa 2022. The funds we generate from artist print sales drive the #CIRCAECONOMY - a circular model that supports our free public art programme and creates life-changing opportunities for the art & culture community.
Since launching in October 2020 on London’s iconic Piccadilly Lights, CIRCA has commissioned new work from rising and established artists including Ai Weiwei, Cauleen Smith, Eddie Peake, Anne Imhof, Patti Smith, Tony Cokes, Emma Talbot, Vivienne Westwood, James Barnor, David Hockney, and more.
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Photos IMAGINE PEACE by Yoko Ono ©CIRCA
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