Find a room where you can host a group of other people.
If you don't like taking risks, don't invite strangers but people you can trust.
Wear your old or least favourite clothes.
Provide at least one pair of scissors.
Sit on the floor, chair or a sofa. Preferably in the middle of the room.
Let the audience cut your clothes. Don't object anything, sit peacefully, move as little as possible and don't say a word. Just observe how people will behave.
If you want to have a look on the way that Yoko Ono did it, check this video:
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Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.
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