Joan Jonas, Professor
Profile
Work
-Images and Video Clips
-Individual Installations and Exhibitions
-Group Installations
-Performances
-Film and Videography
-Screenings
-Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
Publications
-Exhibition Catalogues
and Books
-Articles and Periodicals
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Performances
2007
"Mirage", and "The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things", two video installations, and a performance "Crossed Waves" at Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
2006
"The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things" a site specific performance work with video, DIA Beacon, Beacon, New York
2005
"The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things" a site specific performance work with video, DIA Beacon, Beacon, New York
2003
Lines in the Sand, (video performance), Mexico City, Mexico.
2002
Lines in the Sand (video performance with sound and music in
collaboration with Paul D. Miller a.k.a Dj Spooky; performers: Joan Jonas,
Sung Hwan Kim, Henk Visch), Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany.
2001
Circular Revisions (video performance in conjunction with Joan
Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968-2000), Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart,
Germany.
1999
In the Shadow a Shadow (video performance), Were You There?, ’s-
Hertogenbosch Festival, The Netherlands (Performers: Ragni Haas,
Joan Jonas. Music: Margaret de Wys).
1994
Revolted by the thought of known places… Sweeney Astray
(video performance
in conjunction with Joan Jonas: Works 1968-1994, Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Westergasfabrik, Amsterdam. Co-production:
Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum in association with Holland
Festival. (Concept, director, design: Joan Jonas; translation of
Sweeny Astray by Seamus Heaney:
1993
Variations on a Scene (outdoor performance), Podewil,Berlin,
Germany (Performers: Joan Jonas, Aldo Lancini, Geno Lechner, Leroy.
Music: Alvin Curran).
Variations on a Scene (outdoor performance),Centre d’art Contemporain de Vassivière-en-Limousin, Limousin, France (Performers: Joan Jonas, Geno Lechner, Leroy. Music: Alvin Curran)
1990
Variations on a Scene (outdoor performance), Wave Hill, Bronx,
New York (Performers: Joan Jonas, Seth King, Jane Smith, Kiki Smith,
Jill Wooley, Jorge Zontal. Music: Alvin Curran)
1987
Volcano Saga (video performance), The Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, Massachusetts (Performers: Joan Jonas, Lindzee Smith),
Volcano Saga (video performance), The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Volcano Saga (video performance), The Performing Garage, New York, (Performers: Joan Jonas, Lindzee Smith).
Volcano Saga (video performance), Contemporary Art Museum, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (Performer: Joan Jonas).
1986
Volcano Saga (video performance), Schouwburg, Maastricht,
The Netherlands (Performer: Joan Jonas; Assistant: Yelena Matulic).
Volcano
Saga (video performance),Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania (Performer: Joan Jonas; Assistant: Yelena Matulic).
Volcano Saga (video performance),The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California (Performers: Joan Jonas; John Malloy).
1985 Volcano Saga (video performance), De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Performer: Joan Jonas. Assistant: Yelena Matulic).
He Saw Her Burning (video performance), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Performer: Joan Jonas, on video: Y Sa Lo, Shawn Lawton).
He Saw Her Burning (video performance), La Zattera di Babele, Genazzano, Italy (Performer: Joan Jonas, on video: Y Sa Lo, Shawn Lawton).
1982
Double Lunar Dogs (video performance), Documenta
7, Kassel, Germany (Performer: Eva Gagel, Joan Jonas, Rudy Kuhn. Assistant:
Thomas Meyer).
He Saw Her Burning (video performance), Berliner Künstlerprogramm, DAAD, Berlin, Germany (Performer: Joan Jonas; performers on video: Y Sa Lo, Shawn Lawton).
Upside Down and Backwards, (video performance), ’60 ’80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images, Stedelijk , Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Performer: Joan Jonas; Assistant: Dorine Mignot).
1980
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, Funnel, Mirage,
Upside Down and Backwards, Double Lunar Dogs (Joan Jonas Retrospective,
curator: David Ross), University
Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
1979
The Juniper Tree, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,
Germany (Performer: Joan Jonas; Assistant: Thomas Meyer)
The Juniper Tree,Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (Performer: Joan Jonas. Assistant: Pat Murphey).
The Juniper Tree,The San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, California
(Performer: Joan Jonas).
Upside Down and Backwards, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Upside Down and Backwards, Performing Garage, New York (Performer: Joan Jonas; Assistants: Pooh Kaye, Pamela Raffaelli, Marty Riggleman, Robin Winters).
1978
The Juniper Tree, International Performance Festival, Österreichischer
Kunstverein, Vienna, Austria (Performer: Joan Jonas),
1977
Mirage, Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany (Performer: Joan Jonas; Assistant:
Jane Crawford).
Mirage, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Performer: Joan Jonas).
Mirage,
India/America—Festival di Musica e Danza, sponsored by Galleria
l’Attico and Beat ‘72, Rome, Italy, (Performers: Joan Jonas,
Rosella Or).
The Juniper Tree (collaborative version), The Kitchen, New York
1976
Twilight (video performance), San Francisco Museum
of Art, San Francisco, California, (Performers: Karen Helmerson, Joan Jonas,
Chris Jonic. Camera: Pat
Goudvis).
The Juniper Tree, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1975
Twilight (video performance), Anthology
Film Archives, New York
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (video performance), The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (video performance), Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Funnel (video performance), The Kitchen, New York
Funnel (video performance), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1973
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (video performance), Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (video performance), Festival d’Automne, Musée Galléria, Paris, France,
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (video performance), Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy
1972
Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (video performance),
LoGiudice Gallery, New York
Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (video performance), Festival di Musica e Danza, sponsored by Galleria l’Attico
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (video performance), The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (video performance), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Delay, Delay (outdoor performance), Lower West Side of Manhattan, New York
Delay, Delay (outdoor performance), Festival di Musica e Danza, Tiber River, sponsored by Galleria l’Attico
Delay, Delay (outdoor performance), Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
Choreomania, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York Wall prop: Richard
Serra).
1970
Underneath, Alan Saret’s Spring Street loft,
New York
Mirror Piece II, Mirror Check, Emanu-El, YMCA, New York.
Mirror Piece II, Mirror Check, University of California, San Diego, California
Jones Beach Piece (outdoor performance), Jones Beach, Long Island, New York Mirror Piece I, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York.
1968
Oud Lau, St. Peter’s Church, St. Peter’s
Gymnasium, New York.
