Articles of ‘Joan Jonas’

By Anne Swartz
American Joan Jonas’ art is a subtle and complex interplay of images arranged like words in sentences and paragraphs engaging with the simultaneous denotative and connotative meanings of language. She has used video and sound, installation and performance to showcase the essence of social, lived experience, first exploring gender, then visuality, [...]

By Jeff Edwards
Without Performa 09, the hundredth anniversary of Italian Futurism might have passed fairly quietly on the New York art scene. The coincidence of the movement’s centennial and the massive biennial performance art festival proved beneficial for both. Futurism provided Performa 09 with a perfect theme around which to organize this year’s events, while [...]