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I have picked Yoko Ono as a performance artist. Yoko is famously known as John Lennon's widow. But she was an artist from a young age. She was considered a Fluxus. She was a friend of Fluxus founder George Maciunas. She did a few pieces of Performing art. She performed an act called "Cut Piece" which is considered as "happening". Ono executed the performance in Tokyo by walking on stage and casually kneeling on the floor in a draped garment. Audience members were requested to come on stage and begin cutting until she was naked. This showed her suffering and wanted her audience to complete her art works. She first met John Lennon in one of her art exhibitions. John Lennon once described her as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does."