work and research: publications

Joan Jonas, Professor

Articles and Periodicals

2003
Kimmelman, Michael. “Joan Jonas: All Over the Map,” The New York Times, September 7, 2003.

de León, Jesús. “Líneas en la Arena, Performance de Joan Jonas que Aborda las Preocupaciones
del Mundo Occidental y los Motivos de la Guerra,” Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.

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2002
Sherman, Mary. “‘Tele-Journeys’ is Quite a Trip, ” The Boston Herald, May 19, 2002.

2001
Smolik, Noemi. “Joan Jonas,” ArtForum, September 2001.

Schacher, Marko. “Die Ordnung im Chaos: Die Künstlerin Joan Jonas im Interview,”
Medienkultur-Stuttgart, 2001.

2000
Closky, Claude. “Electronic Images, Villa Merkel, Esslingen,” La Lettre de Cologne, no. 10, February 10, 2000.

Schlosser, Eva Maria. “Electronic Images: Videokunst in der Esslinger Villa Merkel — Labels, Loops, und Logos,” Stuttgarter Nachrichten, April 2000.

Krazeisen, Thomas. “Letzer Tango im Asphaltdschungel,” Fklinger Zeitung, April 12, 2000.

Hoffman, Gabriele. “Und ewig dreht sich Marilyn,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 5, 2000.

Schacher, Marko. “Experimentell: Electronic Images, Video-Narzisse,” Lift Stuttgart, April 2000.

Grosse, Julia. “Kunst: Sound, Style, Video,“ Cosmopolitan, 2000.

McAdams, Barbara. “Joan Jonas,” Artnews, 2000.

Rattemeyer, Christian. “Das Medium ist Kein Thema,” Texte zur Kunst, March 2000, pp. 132 – 137.

1999
Schwendener, Martha. “Joan Jonas, ‘In the Shadows of a Shadow’,” Time Out New York, no. 220, December 1999, p. 77.

Smith, Roberta. “Joan Jonas,” New York Times, December 3, 1999.

Metcalfe, Robin. “Letter from New York,” C International Contemporary Art, December 1999, p. 39.

“ Recommended: Joan Jonas,” New Art Examiner, December - January 1999/2000.

“ Joan Jonas: ‘Songdelay’,” The New Yorker, February 23–March 2, 1999, p. 38.

Youens, Rachel. “Visiting Joan Jonas”, NY Arts Magazine, pp. 17.

1998

Schwabsky, Barry. “Joan Jonas: Pat Hearn Gallery,” Artforum, Summer 1998.

1997
Heartney, Eleanor. “Joan Jonas at Pat Hearn,” Art in America, December 1997 p. 94.

1996
Hixson, Kathryn. “True or Dare: Losing Control of How Things Mean: Conceptual Art at MOCA’s Temporary Contemporary,” The New Art Examiner, Summer 1996, pp. 18 – 23.

Yoblonsky, Linda. “Maura Sheehan, Joan Jonas,

Marina Abramovic, ‘Place’,” Time Out New York, n. 40, 1996.

1995
Simon, Joan. “Scenes and Variations: An Interview with Joan Jonas,” Art in America, no. 7, July 1995, pp. 72-79, 100-101.

1994
Steenbergen, Renée. “Een Jurk van Stromend Water,” NRC Handelsblad, April 29, 1994, pp. 18–23.

van der Linden, Riet. “Joan Jonas,” Ruimte, vol. 2, no. 1, 1994, pp. 38-39.

Klaster, Jan Bart. “Body & Soul,” Het Parool, April 30, 1994.

1993
Schwabsky, Barry. ArtPress, no. 182, July - August 1993, pp. 30–33.

1992
Kaye, Nick. “Mask, Role and Narrative: An Interview with Joan Jonas,” Performance, no. 65/66, Spring 1992, pp. 48–59.

Lehmann, Henry. “Artwork that Gets into Your Mind,” The Gazette, April 18, 1992.

1990
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Joan Jonas,” Arts Magazine, vol. 65, no. 3, November 1990.

Liebmann, Lisa. “Joan Jonas,” Arts Magazine, vol. 65, no. 3, November 1990, p. 105.

Harrison, Helen A. “Iceland Inspires Look to the Future,” The New York Times, April 15, 1990 p. 12.

Gravel, Claire. “Dérontes et Plaisir de l’Art,” Le Devoir, December 1, 1990.

Cron, Marie-Michèle. “Joan Jonas. Raconte-moi un dessin!” Voir, vol. 5, no. 3, December 6 - 12, 1990.

Liebman, Lisa. “Joan Jonas: Wave Hill,” Artforum, vol. 29, no. 3, November 1990, pp. 170- 171.

Adams, Brooks. “Joan Jonas: Elysian Fields,” Contemporanea, no. 22, November 1990, pp. 78 – 81.

Paquette, Carol. “A Multi-Media Saga,” The Record, March 22, 1990.

Hanhardt, John G. “Video Art: Expanded Forms,” Leonardo, vol. 23, no. 4, 1990, pp. 437 – 439.

1989
Wijers, Luwrien. “Perfecte installatie voor bewustzijnsverfijning,” NRC Handelsblad, June 17 - 19, 1989.

Hagen, Charles. “Video Art: The Fabulous Chameleon,” Artnews, vol. 88, no. 6, Summer 1989, pp. 118–123.

1988
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Video Art: Expanded Forms,” High Performance, vol. 11, Fall 1988, pp. 62-63.

Taubin, Amy. “Cultural Contractions,” The Village Voice, April 5, 1988, p. 99.

1987
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Joan Jonas: Volcano Saga,” High Performance, no. 39, 1987, p. 84.

Perov, Kira. “Patterns of Light,” Aperture, no. 106, Spring 1987, pp. 58 – 64.

Little, Carl. “Performing Garage,” Art in America, vol. 75, September 1987, pp. 179-180.

1986
Wijers, Louwrien. “Beeldende Kunst in de Schouwburg,” Het Financieel Dagblad, November 22 - 24, 1986, p. 13.

Reijnders, Tineke. “Een Fata Morgana/A Mirage: Joan Jonas’ Performance ‘Volcano Saga’,” de Appel Bulletin, no. 1, 1986, pp. 24–27.

Perée, Rob. “Het verhaal beeldend de ruimte,” Kunstbeeld, no. 5, March 1986, pp. 20 – 22.

La Palma, M. “Video Verging on Television,” Artweek, March 29, 1986, p. 7.

1985
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Video and Ritual,” Afterimage, vol. 12, February 1985, p. 19.

1984
Lippard, Lucy. “Art and Politics: Questions of a Politicized Performance Art,” Art in America, no. 72, October 1984, pp. 39 – 45.

1983

Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Manhattan Short Cuts,” Afterimage, Summer 1983, pp. 46 – 47.

“He Saw Her Burning: Whitney Museum Performance,” Afterimage, no. 11, Summer 1983, p. 46.

Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Joan Jonas,” The Village Voice, vol. 28, no. 11, March 15, 1983.

Sterritt, David. “Mixed-Media Work,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 3, 1983, p. 19.

Siciliano, Rosemary. “Her Saw Her Burning: An Attack upon the Senses,” Barnard Bulletin, March 2, 1983, p. 5.

Shewey, Don. “The Avant-Garde’s Ghetto Mentality,” The Village Voice, vol. 28, no. 15, April 12, 1983, p. 86.

Jonas, Joan. “He Saw Her Burning,” High Performance, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983.
James, D. “Too Much Accessibility,” Artweek, November 5, 1983, p. 13.

Howell, John. “Luigi Ontani and Joan Jonas,” Artforum, vol. 21, no. 10, Summer 1983, pp. 78 – 80.

Hanhardt, John G. and Joan Jonas. “He Saw Her Burning,” The New American Filmmaker’s Series, The Whitney Museum of American Art Bulletin, no. 7, 1983.

Burnham, L. “Artist’s Chronicle,” High Performance, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983, pp. 27 – 88.

Banes, Sally. “Motions: Eccentric and Burning,” The Village Voice, March 8, 1983, p. 81.

1982
Zelevansky, Lynn. “Documenta: Art for Art’s Sake,” Flash Art, no. 109, November 1982, pp.39 – 40.

Wooster, Ann-Sargent, “Manhattan Short Cuts,” Afterimage, vol. 9, no. 9, April 1982, p. 17.

White, Robin. “Great Expectations: Artists’ TV Guide,” Artforum, vol. 20, no. 10, Summer 1982, p. 40 – 47.

Shaw, L. E. “Kathan Brown and Crown Point Press,” Art Papers, vol. 6, no. 3, May - June 1982, pp. 6 – 7.

Howell, John. “Joan Jonas,” High Performance, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring/Summer 1982, p. 98, 1982.

Coe, Robert. “Four Performance Artists,” Theater Magazine, Spring 1982, pp. 1–3.

1981
Kalil, S. “Joan Jonas: Performance Recorded Through Installation Site,” Artweek, September 19, 1981, p. 16.

Junker, Howard. “Joan Jonas: The Mirror Staged,” Art in America, vol. 69, no. 2, February, 1981, pp. 87–95.

Howell, John. “Swing on a Star,” The Soho News, December 22, 1981.

Jonas, Joan. “Double Lunar Dogs” (script), Bomb, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1981.

Faber, Roderick Mason. “Double Lunar Dogs,” The Village Voice, December 23 - 29, 1981.

1980
Wortz, Melinda. “Wolf Calls and Frog Songs: Upside Down and Backwards,” Art News, vol. 79, no. 7, September, 1980, p. 213.

Stofflet, Mary. “Jonas’ Futurism,” Artweek, July 5, 1980, p. 5.

--------- -------. “Jonas and Cultural Biography, “Artweek, June 7, 1980, p. 5.

-------- --------. “Personal and Cultural Narratives,” Artweek, January 26, 1980, p. 5.

Rosenthal, A. “Images of Silence,” Artweek, May 17, 1980, p. 7.

Pieters, Din. “Cage, Marioni, Barry, Jonas,” Stedelijk Museum Bulletin, Amsterdam, 1980.

Maul, Tim. “Joan Jonas: Guggenheim Museum, New York,” Flash Art, no. 96/97, March/April 1980, p. 51.

Jonas, Joan. “Statement at Intermedia Festival,” Live, no. 3, 1980, pp. 15 – 17.

1979

White, Robin. “Joan Jonas (interview),” View, vol. 2, no. 1, April 1979, pp. 1 – 24.

Silverman, Jill. “Joan Jonas at 112 Mercer Street,” Art in America, vol. 67, no. 3, May/June 1979, pp. 143 – 144.

Pontbriand, C. “Notion(s) of Performance,” Parachute, no. 15, Summer 1979, pp. 25-52.

Chester, Laura. “The Juniper Tree: Performance by Joan Jonas at the San Francisco Art Institute,” The San Francisco Review of Books, July 1979.

1978
Kupper, Hans Jürg. “Performance mit Joan Jonas,” Basler Zeitung, vol. 3, February 1978.

Smith, Amanda. “Joan Jonas,” Dance Magazine, vol. 52, March 1978, p. 30.

1977
Silverthorne, Jeanne. “Performance as Metamorphosis: The Art of Joan Jonas,” Philadelphia Arts Exchange, vol. 1, no. 2, March - April 1977, pp. 11 – 14.

Shapiro, David. “View of Kassel (Documenta 6),” Artforum, vol. 16, September 1977, p. 61.

Jarmusch, Ann. “Joan Jonas: Suspended in Shadow,” Art News, vol. 76, no. 4, April 1977, p. 89.

Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Tell me a Story,” Soho News Weekly, vol. 17, November 1977.

“Performance at Documenta 6, Kassel,” Architettura, vol. 23, October 1977, p. 231.

1976
Ross, David. “Provisional Overview of Artists’ Television in the USA,” Studio International, vol. 191, no. 981, May–June 1976, pp. 265 – 272.

Lorber, Richard. “Towards an Aesthetics of Videodance” Arts in Society, vol. 13, no. 2, Summer–Fall 1976, p. 242.

Lippard, Lucy R. ”The Pains and Pleasures of Rebirth: Women’s Body Art,” Art in America, vol. 64, no. 3, May–June 1976, p. 242 – 253.

Krauss, Rosalind. “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism,” October, no. 1, Spring 1976, pp. 51 – 64.

Grolitsch, Gerhild. “We are Feminists,” Flash Art, vol. 68/69, 1976, pp. 17-20.

Donohoe, Victoria. “Space, time interwoven in ‘Stage Sets,’” Philadelphia Inquirer, vol. 12, December 1976.

Crimp, Douglas. “Joan Jonas’s Performance Works,” Studio International, vol. 192, no. 982, July - August 1976, pp. 10–12.

1975
Art-Rite, no. 10, Fall 1975 (special issue on performance).

Zimmer, William. “Joan Jonas: Leo Castelli Downtown,” Arts Magazine, vol. 49, no. 9, May 1975, p. 17.

Welling, Jim. “Joan Jonas Performance,” Artweek, April 12, 1975, p. 4.

Pluchart, François. “L’art corporel,” Artitudes, no. 18, January - March 1975, pp. 90 – 91.

Jonas, Joan and Rosalind Krauss. “Seven Years,” The Drama Review, vol. 19, no. 1, March 1975, pp. 13 – 16.

Hayum, Andrée. “Notes on Performance and the Arts,” Art Journal, vol. 34, no. 4, Summer 1975, pp. 337 – 338.

Grosshans, Katherine. “Joan Jonas in Seattle,” Artweek, November 1, 1975, p. 4

1974
Artitudes, no. 12, July - September, 1974, p. 85.

“Unskirting the Issue,” Art-Rite, no. 5, Spring 1974, p. 6.

Wortz, Melinda. “Collectors’ Video,” Artweek, no. 15, June 1974, p. 16.

Rubin, Vittorio. “Music and Dance in the USA,” interview with Fabio Sargentini, Data, vol. 4, no. 13, Fall 1974.

Jonas, Joan. “August 1974 - Fawn Grove, P.A.,” Art-Rite, no. 7, Fall 1974, p. 4.

Freed, H. “Video and Abstract Expressionism,” Arts Magazine, vol. 49, December 1974, p. 69.

Frank, Peter. “New Dance/Art,” Dance Magazine, vol. 48, April 1974, pp. 55 – 57.

Carroll, Noël. “Joan Jonas: Making the Image Visible,” Artforum, vol. 12, no. 7, April 1974, pp. 52 – 53.

Borden, Lizzie. “The New Dialectic,” Artforum, vol. 12, no. 6, March 1974, pp. 44 – 51.

1973
Spear, A. T. “Some Thoughts on Contemporary Art,” Oberlin College Bulletin, vol. 30, no. 3, Spring 1973, pp. 97 – 98.

Liss, Carla. “Show Me Your Dances,” Art and Artists, vol. 8, no. 7, October 1973, pp. 14–21.

de Jong, Constance. “Joan Jonas: Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll,” Arts Magazine, vol. 47, no. 5, March 1973, pp. 27 – 29.

Anderson, Laurie. “Joan Jonas,” Art Press, no. 7, November - December 1973, p. 20.

1972
“Video,” Avalanche, Summer 1972, pp. 6 – 7.

Kurtz, Bruce. “Video is Being Invented,” Arts Magazine, vol. 47, no. 3, December 1972 - January 1973, pp. 37 – 47.

Simonetti, Gianni-Emilio. “Festival of Music and Dance,” Flash Art, no. 35/36, September - October 1972, pp. 2 – 4.

Reiring, Janelle. “Joan Jonas: Delay, Delay,” The Drama Review, vol. 16, no. 3, September 1972, pp. 142 – 151.

de Jong, Constance. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy,” The Drama Review, vol. 16, no. 2, June 1972, pp. 63 – 65.

Jonas, Joan. “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (script),” The Drama Review, vol. 16, no. 2, June 1972, pp. 66 – 74.

1971
Jonas, Jonas and Richard Serra. “Paul Revere,” Artforum, vol. 10, no. 1, September 1971, pp. 65 – 67.

“Publications, ” Avalanche, no. 2, Winter 1971, p. 7

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