Joan Jonas
born 1936
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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. 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.
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Joan Jonas The Juniper Tree
1976, reconstructed 1994
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Joan Jonas: ‘I am curious about life’
Jonas is one of the most important American artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s
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Joan Jonas in conversation with Ute Meta Bauer
Jonas will give an insight into how she creates the different stages and formats that form a body of work ...
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Joan Jonas
Join pioneering multi-media performance artist Joan Jonas for this screening and discussion of her videos and film collages.
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The Performer: Joan Jonas talks to Rachel Rose
Joan Jonas is an artist and filmmaker who, in the early 1970s, pioneered the use of video and performance in ...
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Five Things to Know: Joan Jonas
Meet the artist still pushing the boundaries of video and performance after five decades
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Joan Jonas, Helen in Egypt: Lines in the Sand 2004
Case study on Joan Jonas's Helen in Egypt: Lines in the Sand 2004, part of Performance at Tate: Into ...
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Joan Jonas, Draw Without Looking 2013
Case study examining Joan Jonas's Draw Without Looking 2013, part of Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art ...
Tate Etc
'Here, I knew I was being watched': BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
BMW Tate Live: Performance Room is a series of performances commissioned and conceived exclusively to be viewed online, and the ...
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Tate Debate: Do you need to experience a performance 'live'?
Take a brief look at the meaning of ‘live’ and join the discussion
Press Release
BMW Tate Live Performance Room: Joan Jonas
15 Feb 2013
Press release: BMW Tate Live Performance Room: Joan Jonas, major video and performance artist. Tate Modern
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There I am next to me: Symmetry
In the 60s and 70s artists changed how they looked at symmetry, particularly using new media such as video. Ralph ...
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