Peace piece! 03.06.2007 / Junior Suite 215, Hotel Atlantic Kempinski, Hamburg

›During the Vietnam War, in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two, week-long Bed-Ins for Peace in Montreal , which were their non-violent ways of protesting wars and promoting peace.

Knowing their March 20, 1969 marriage would be a huge press event, John and Yoko decided to use the publicity to promote world peace.

They spent their honeymoon in Room 702 at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel for a week between March 25 and March 31 and invited the world's press into their hotel room every day between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. After their other stunts, such as the naked cover of the Two Virgins album, the press were expecting them to be having sex, but instead John and Yoko were sitting in bed talking about peace with signs over their bed reading »Hair Peace« and »Bed Peace«.

Bastiana Stutterheim and Tobias Kaspar use the signs ›Hair Peace‹ and ›Bed Peace‹ as an instruction for a new work, which they realised and presented in the Hotel Atlantic Kempinski in Hamburg, room no. 215.

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