American artist Joan Jonas experimental projects in the late sixties and early seventies were essential to the development of contemporary performance, video, and conceptual art. Born in New York in 1936, she is regarded as a pioneer of video art and performance. Her work fuses video, dance, theatre, sculpture, drawing. Her projects have included collaborations with dancers like Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer and composers like Alvin Lucier.She investigates space, perception and time, ritual gestures, symbolic objects and stereotypes , and the magical role of the narrator who conveys a drama in each action.
Language
English
Pages
169
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Museu Dart Contemporani de Barcelona
Release
September 01, 2007
ISBN
8489771448
ISBN 13
9788489771444
Joan Jonas: Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room
American artist Joan Jonas experimental projects in the late sixties and early seventies were essential to the development of contemporary performance, video, and conceptual art. Born in New York in 1936, she is regarded as a pioneer of video art and performance. Her work fuses video, dance, theatre, sculpture, drawing. Her projects have included collaborations with dancers like Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer and composers like Alvin Lucier.She investigates space, perception and time, ritual gestures, symbolic objects and stereotypes , and the magical role of the narrator who conveys a drama in each action.