Joan Jonas

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Joan Jonas (2010)

Joan Jonas (* 13. July 1936 in New York City as Joan Amerman Edwards ) is an American artist who considered groundbreaking for performance and video art was known and at the Documenta in Kassel took part several times.

Life

Jonas grew up in New York and studied art history at Mount Holyoke College from 1954–58 . 1958–61 followed a study of sculpture at the Boston Museum School and 1961–64 the study of painting at New York's Columbia University . Her early works in New York in the early 1960s were influenced by the non-linear works of John Cage and Claes Oldenburg . She began her artistic career in New York City as a sculptor.

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Around 1968 Joan Jonas turned into an experimental artist. She mixed performance with media projected images and performed them in natural or industrial environments. In her early works, such as “ Wind ” from 1968, Jonas filmed actors walking stiffly through a field of vision. The impression of “stiffness” is created by the resistance of a “head wind”, which gave the choreography a “psychological mysticism ”.

In 1972 Joan Jonas was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the department Individual Mythologies : Self-Presentation - Performances - Activities - Changes .

Songdelay from 1973 showed film recordings with both frog and wide-angle lenses , with these extreme opposites in depth of field deliberately breaking through conventional perception. In Songdelay, Jonas processed her experiences in Japan, where she saw actors from the Noh Theater who hit blocks of wood and performed bizarre movement patterns at the same time.

In Organic Honey the artist presented herself as an “electronic-erotic seductress”, whose doll-like face reflected changing female role models. Drawings, costumes, masks and interaction with electronic video images created effects that made it possible to visually duplicate perception and levels of meaning. The “reflection” through video became her symbol of the (self-) portrait and the representation of the body. "Real" and "imaginary" merged. As a result, their performances conveyed their own mood of danger and tension in feedback to the audience.

In “ Lines in the Sand ” from 2002, an installation and performance for Documenta11 , Jonas examined the subject of the self and its body representation. The basis was Hilda Doolitte's epic poem "Helen in Egypt" (1951–55), which reconstructs the myth of the Trojan Helena.

In The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things , a work commissioned by the Chicago Renaissance Society in 2004, Jonas referred to Aby Warburg's study of the Hopi imagery. Jonas sees parallels to her own in Warburg's work.

Jonah's work influenced Richard Serra , Robert Smithson , Dan Graham and Laurie Anderson . Well known in Europe , it was less valid at home. Jonas' projects and experiments created the basis of the genre "video performance". Her influence also extended to conceptual art , theater, and other visual media.

Joan Jonas was also represented with works at Documenta 6 (1977), Documenta 7 in 1982 and Documenta 8 (1987).

In 1994 Jonas was honored with a major retrospective in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . On this occasion she transformed several of her performance works into installations for the museum. In 2003 she had solo exhibitions at Rosamund Felsen in Los Angeles and at the Pat Hearn Gallery in New York City. In 1995 she was offered a chair for sculpture (successor to Jürgen Brodwolf ) at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , where she taught until 2002.

The “Queens Museum of Art” showed with “Joan Jonas: Five Works” (December 14, 2003 - March 14, 2004) the first major exhibition by Jonas in a New York museum. This exhibition consisted of a video room and an overview of her drawings, photographs and sketch pads. In 2006 she became a professor of "visual arts" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In June 2008, as the star guest of the performance festival “In Transit 08” in the Berlin House of World Cultures , the 72-year-old performed a “multimedia thunderstorm” with piano accompaniment.

For the 2014/2015 season in the Vienna State Opera , Joan Jonas designed a 176 square meter large picture as part of the “Iron Curtain” exhibition series conceived by museum in progress . In 2015 she performed in the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale .

Joan Jonas lives and works in New York City.

Works (selection)

  • The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things (2004)
  • Lines in the Sand (2002)
  • My New Theater , portable series (1997-1999)
  • Woman in the Well (1996/2000)
  • Revolted by the Thought of Known Places ... (1992)
  • Volcano Saga (1985)
  • The Juniper Tree (1976)
  • Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy (1972)

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

Jonas has received several fellowships and grants for choreography, video art and visual arts, for example from the National Endowment for the Arts , the Rockefeller Foundation , the Guggenheim Foundation, the "CAT Fund", the "Artist TV Lab at WNET / 13" (New York City), the "Television Workshop at WXX1" (Rochester) and the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD ). At international awards she received the “Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art Prize” at the Tokyo International Video Art Festival, the “Polaroid Award for Video Art” and the “ Maya Deren Award for Video Art” from the American Film Institute . In 2009 Jonas received the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York for her extraordinary achievements in contemporary art . In 2015 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2016 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . At the Biennale di Venezia of the same year, she received special mentions . For 2018 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize in the Art category.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Media Art Network": short biography
  2. ↑ Biographical information on culturebase.net ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.culturebase.net
  3. ^ Joan Jonas: Five Works - Queens Museum of Art . Article dated February 1, 2004, accessed November 15, 2014.
  4. ^ Queens Museum of Art: Catalog of the 2004 exhibition
  5. ↑ the daily newspaper of June 14, 2008: "All art is rain magic": Joan Jonas, pioneer of performance, in the House of World Cultures
  6. ↑ Iron Curtain 2014/2015 , museum in progress
  7. ↑ Venice Biennale: Joan Jonas in the US pavilion ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , art-magazin.de from April 16, 2014, accessed on November 15, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  8. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , in English, accessed on 23 August 2014.
  9. ^ Iron Curtain , project page from museum in progress .
  10. ^ "Joan Jonas" , accessed June 7, 2020.
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guggenheim.org
  12. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jonas, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edwards, Joan Amerman (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City