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See Peaches recreate Yoko Ono's legendary "Cut Piece" performance

When Peaches met fellow firestarter Yoko Ono and reenacted a notorious art piece, she faced feeling pretty vulnerable. In this installment of our Storytellers series on Exhibitionists, the Canadian pop treasure whose highly anticipated album Rub is out now, and it's a scorcher opens up about what it was like to be on stage in a totally new way.

The famously incendiary performer describes feeling unusually vulnerable

Electronic musician Peaches on art and danger

9 years ago
Duration 3:14
Peaches tells her story of meeting fellow provocateur Yoko Ono

Peacheshas always been brave enough speak her mind. The electronic musician and performer isknown for beingbold, provocativeanddaring ever since she burst into the public consciousnessin 2000 with her albumThe Teaches of Peaches, which was recently named best Canadian album of the2000s in the inauguralSlaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize. She's worked with Pink, Christina Aguilera, and Major Lazer (among many others), and her songs are full of raw lyrics on subjects ranging from sex to politics.

But when Peaches met fellow firestarter Yoko Ono and reenacted "Cut Piece," arguably the pioneering figure's most notorious art performance, she faced feeling pretty vulnerable. In this installment of our Storytellers series on Exhibitionists , theCanadianpop treasure whosehighly anticipated albumRubis out now, and it's a scorcher opens up about what it was like to be on stage in a totally new way.

WatchExhibitionistsSundayat4:30pm(5pmNT) on CBC Television.