Electronic Arts Intermix: Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas

Overview

An acclaimed multi-media performance artist, Joan Jonas is also a major figure in video art. From her seminal performance-based exercises of the 1970s to her later televisual narratives, Jonas engages in an elusive theatrical portrayal of female identity. Employing an idiosyncratic vocabulary of ritualized gesture and symbolic objects that include masks, mirrors, and costuming, she explores the self and the body through layers of meaning.

Titles

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Wind

1968, 5:37 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on HD video

Duet

1972, 4:23 min, b&w, sound

Left Side Right Side

1972, 8:50 min, b&w, sound

Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy

1972, 17:24 min, b&w, sound

Vertical Roll

1972, 19:38 min, b&w, sound

Glass Puzzle

1973, 17:27 min, b&w, sound

Songdelay

1973, 18:35 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

Three Returns/Barking

1973, 15:34 min, b&w, sound

Three Returns

1973, 13:14 min, b&w, sound

Barking

1973, 2:22 min, b&w, sound

Organic Honey's Vertical Roll

1973-99, 15 min, b&w, sound

Disturbances

1974, 11 min, b&w, sound

Merlo

1974, 16:13 min, b&w, sound

Good Night Good Morning

1976, 11:38 min, b&w, sound

I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)

1976, 24:06 min, color, sound

Mirage

1976, 31 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on video

Mirage 2

1976-2000, 30 min, b&w, sound

Upsidedown and Backwards

1980, 29:03 min, color, sound

He Saw Her Burning

1983, 19:32 min, color, sound

Big Market

1984, 23:36 min, color, sound

Double Lunar Dogs

1984, 24:04 min, color, sound

Brooklyn Bridge

1988, 6:12 min, color, sound

Volcano Saga

1989, 28 min, color, sound

Lines in the Sand

2002-2005, 47:45 min, color, sound

Waltz

2003, 7:03 min, color, sound

Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image

2004, 11 DVDs

El Gringo

2003, 4:12 min, color, sound

Le Moment

2003, 2:44 min, color, sound

Over My Shoulder

2003, 13:48 min, color, sound

Blind Spot

2003, 12:27 min, color, sound

I JEDI

2003, 5 min, color, sound

Waltz

2003, 7:03 min, color, sound

Encore

2003, 4:38 min, color, sound

Automatic Writing

2003, 2:38 min, b&w, sound

WGG Test

2003, 5:20 min, color, sound

I Want to See How You See (or a portrait of Cornelia Providoli)

2003, 4:48 min, color, sound

Time After Time

2003, 5:22 min, color, sound

See also

WGBH

Soup & Tart

Jean Dupuy

1974-75, 55:45 min, b&w, sound

East Coast, West Coast

Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson

1969, 22 min, b&w, sound

Paul Revere

Richard Serra with Joan Jonas

1971, 7:25 min, b&w, sound