Joan Jonas
dal 6/4/2015 al 4/7/2015
Segnalato da
6/4/2015
Joan Jonas
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Selected Films and Videos, 1972-2005. In conjunction with the presentation of Jonas's new work made for the U.S. Pavilion as part of the 2015 Venice Biennale, the List presents 7 of the artist's seminal film and video works.
curated by Henriette Huldisch, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center
In conjunction with the presentation of Joan Jonas’s new work made for the U.S. Pavilion as part of the 2015 Venice Biennale, the List presents seven of the artist’s seminal film and video works surveying the breadth of her career. Immersed in the post-minimal experiments of New York’s downtown scene, Jonas developed her distinctive performances drawing on dance, ritual and various theater traditions in the late 1960s, and soon began to incorporate video into her work.
Her first single-screen tape Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972) combines her inquiry into the representation of femininity using masks, mirrors, and other props, with the conceptual probing of video’s properties such as instant playback. The film Mirage (1976) shows the artist executing a number of signature, enigmatic chalk drawings, and erasing them immediately after.
In the 1980s, Jonas’s work turned towards more narrative forms, inspired by antique myths, fairy tales, and literature. Using a range of stylized special effects, Double Lunar Dogs (1984), based on a science fiction story by Robert Heinlein, envisions the inhabitants of a space ship lost in space for generations, whereas Volcano Saga (1989), originally produced for television broadcast, stages a retelling of an ancient Icelandic saga.
Also presented is Lines in the Sand (2002-2005), documenting Jonas’s celebrated performance first staged for Documenta 11 in 2002.
Support for this exhibition has been generously provided by the Council for the Arts at MIT, the Office of the Associate Provost at MIT, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MIT List Visual Arts Center Advisory Committee and the Friends of the List.
April 9, 2015, 5:30PM
In conjunction with the exhibition, join artist Renée Green, professor in the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology, and List exhibition curator Henriette Huldisch for lively discussion about Joan Jonas’s work in performance, video, and installation.
Image: Lines in the Sand, performance at Documenta 11 Kassel, 2002, photo by Werner Maschmann 72
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