Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas

Birthday: 1936-01-01

Place of Birth: New York, New York, U.S.A.

Biography: Joan Jonas is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art who is one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1] Jonas' projects and experiments provided the foundation on which much video performance art would be based. Her influences also extended to conceptual art, theatre, performance art and other visual media. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada. From Wikipedia.

Movies

Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the peopl...

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Keep Busy
Keep Busy

The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to desce...

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Vertical Roll
Vertical Roll

Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critic...

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Volcano Saga
Volcano Saga

This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxde...

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Double Lunar Dogs
Double Lunar Dogs

Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of post-apocal...

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Regrouping
Regrouping

In this experimental film, Borden explores the dynamics among the members of a woman’s group. As she...

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Left Side, Right Side
Left Side, Right Side

In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent prop...

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

Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent of ...

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Moving Off the Land
Moving Off the Land

Moving Off the Land celebrates the ocean and its creatures, biodiversity, and delicate ecology....

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Lines in the Sand
Lines in the Sand

"Commissioned by Dokumenta XI in 2002, Jonas' multimedia performance piece Lines in the Sand takes u...

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