Joan Jonas
“Double Lunar Rabbits”
CCA KITAKYUSHU
February 1 – March 5, 2010
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/jp/index.html
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Joan Jonas
http://www.wako-art.jp/artists/joan_jonas/
Born in 1936 in New York, Joan Jonas studied art history at Mount Holyoke and later sculpture at Columbia University; she was involved in the 1960s and 70s experimental dance and performance movement and worked with artists such as Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Philip Glass. Her use of props such as mirrors and masks, incorporation of video and drawing, and references to legends, epics and folktales (often narrated by or featuring women) in her storytelling, and her collaboration with musicians of various genres, all lend to the unique quality of her performances. In recent years she performed Lines in the Sand at Documenta 11, Kassel (2002), Kitchen, New York and Tate, London (2004), and The Shapes, the Scent, the Shapes of Things at Dia:Beacon in New York (2005, 2006) ,House of World Cultures, Berlin (2008) and Yokohama Triennale (2008).
☆Catalogue available
http://www.wako-art.jp/publications/joan_jonas/lines_and_shadows/index_en.php
Image:
“Reading Dante”2008
Performance for the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008 at the Cell Block Theatre
Courtesy the artist; Yvon Lambert, Paris and New York; and Wilkinson Gallery, London
Photo: Greg Weight