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A common feeling

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In their performances, Joan Jonas and Cristina Lucas propose new relationships with the origin, the past and the history, opening a window through which to look and feel the present.

For Joan Jonas, the action is located at an immemorial origin. There is the space (the Square, at the Bienal Pavilion) and the time (today and tomorrow, at 8 pm), but her performance “A Forma, o... read more

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The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things

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Joan Jonas

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Joan Jonas was born in New York, USA, 1936. Lives in New York 2008 In Transit 08, Performing Arts Festival, House of World Cultures, Berlin 2007 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles at the Geffen Contemporary, USA 2006 The Power of Women, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy 2005 Joan Jonas: Survey 1968-2005, Le Plateau and... read more

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The shape, the scent and the feel of things

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At 8 pm last Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, the US artist Joan Jonas delivered her performance “The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things” at the Bienal Pavilion’s Square. Combining video, drama, fantasy and music (by jazz pianist Jason Moran), the performance dialogues openly with the biography of German art historian Aby Warburg, who sought throughout his life a method of cataloguing... read more

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10.26

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Week 2

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Week 6

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Disturbances

Video

Disturbances extends Jonas' investigation of mirrored surfaces and spaces, as she explores reflections of movement and images in water. The tape begins with Jonas, like Narcissus, leaning over a reflecting pool. Throughout this lyrical exercise, the viewer sees only reflected images and inversions, disturbances of the water's surface. Figures walking at the edge of the pool are... read more

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Left Side Right Side

Video

In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the self and the body. Jonas performs in a direct, one-on-one confrontation with the viewer, using the immediacy and intimacy of video as conceptual constructs. Exploring video as both a mirror and a masking device, and using her body... read more

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Vertical Roll

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In this well-known early tape, Jonas manipulates the grammar of the camera to create the sense of a grossly disturbed physical space. Vertical Roll shows Jonas masked and naked, with her head horizontal to the bottom of the roll. Separate parts of Jonas’ body are shown in movements specifically choreographed in relation to the constant rhythmic appearance of the black bar of the... read more

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