JOAN
JONAS
Crossed Waves: After a Long Train Ride
Performance
Saturday, October 11, 2003 8:00pm
TRANS>area @ the Moore
The Moore Space
4040 NE 2nd Avenue, 2nd floor
Miami, FL 33137
For more information, please call (305) 438-1163
Website: www.transmag.org
For further info: trans@transmag.org
or info@themoorespace.org
The Moore Space invites you to the first TRANS>area @ the Moore project:
Crossed Waves: After a Long Train Ride, a new performance by Joan Jonas at The
Moore Space on Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 8:00 pm.
For Jonas, every performance is reloaded with new meaning in accordance with the spatial situation and context of the exhibition. Crossed Waves: After a Long Train Ride will begin with the artist’s departure from New York and continue throughout the train ride that will take her to Miami.
Crossed Waves: After a Long Train Ride is Jonas’s second performance organized by TRANS>, following the performance Montage Verite in collaboration with Jeff Preiss at TRANS>area in New York, 2002.
about the artist’s practice>
Joan Jonas’s work led the way in the 1960’s with the first appearances of performance and video art. She has since come to represent the feminine side of her generation. Deeply imbued in the spirit of post-minimalism, her practice mixes different media (dance, drawings, projections and theater) to create a total environment where her action takes place. Her performances investigate the interaction between the body, illusionary spaces, constructed personas and recording technologies.
The complex spatial articulation in her work resonates with a carefully considered mix of elements. Mirrors, closed circuit cameras and recently, new digital media have been for Jonas means to explore not only outer and inner space, but to link the performer with her audience.
In her early performance Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972) for instance, Jonas, as her TV persona Organic Honey, entered masked and costumed into a room filled with clothes, mirrors, a slide projection, monitors and drawings. A camera on a tripod was connected to a TV monitor showing in real time the action of the performer’s multiplying in the illusionary spaces.
In more recent works, her gestures are charged with symbolic intensity and references coming from ancient rituals and fairy tales. The use of objects alongside the re-enactment of stories and narratives conjure a psychologically charged environment wherein a dramatic action unravels. The gesture of Jonas’s performances describes and delimits a physical and mental space into which the spectator is invited to maneuver.
about the artist>
Joan Jonas is professor of Visual Art at MIT in Boston. She had a major retrospective at the Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam in 1994 and at the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart in 2000. Her work has been shown in several group shows including Documenta VI, Kassel, 1977, The American Century: Art & Culture at the Whitney Museum, New York, 1999, Out of Action: Between Performances and the Object 1949-79 at the MOCA Los Angeles and at Documenta XI, Kassel, 2002. She is preparing for an upcoming retrospective at the Queens Museum in New York. She currently lives and works in New York.
about TRANS>area @ the Moore Space>
TRANS>area at the Moore Space is the first event marking the ongoing collaboration between the Moore Space, Miami and TRANS>area, New York, both non-profit arts organizations. The partnership will consist of the co-production of live events, screenings, lectures and exhibitions. Moore Space is a newly formed exhibition space founded under the initiative of Arts Patrons/Activists Rosa de la Cruz and Craig Robbins.
about TRANS>
TRANS> is a non-profit arts and cultural organization based in New York City that consists of four ongoing projects: 1) TRANS>area: an exhibition space in Chelsea; a satellite exhibition space at the Moore Space in Miami’s Design District; and off-site projects throughout the world. 2) TRANS>arts.cultures.media: a biannual, not-for-profit, multilingual journal of contemporary arts and cultures. 3) TRANS>publications: a series of monographs and artists books. 4) TRANS> editions: signed, limited edition artworks by up-coming and prominent contemporary artists created especially for TRANS>.
about the Moore Space>
The idea of establishing an experimental art space in Miami was originated in 2001 by Rosa de la Cruz on the occasion of the first Art Basel Miami Beach art fair. She approached fellow collectors and real estate developers, Ivelin and Craig Robbins for the loan of an exhibition space in the Design District. They responded by generously offering a space on the second floor of the historic 1920’s Moore Furniture Company building; this was the beginning of a fruitful association that has so far generated four exhibitions, lectures on contemporary art and numerous educational programs.
The aim of The Moore Space’s exhibition program is to present the highest quality international contemporary art forms and to interpret and contextualize art from Miami, the Caribbean and South America within this framework. The Moore Space is committed to continuing its tradition and strategy of including guest curators as an integral part of its exhibition program, offering the Miami community the opportunity to experience a variety of fresh, and even conflicting voices and styles. To complement these exhibitions, The Moore Space regularly presents lectures by artists and other arts professionals.
The Moore Space is a non-profit alternative art space in Miami’s Design District, located at 4040 NE 2nd Ave, 2nd floor. Regular hours are Friday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and Saturdays 10:00 am to 5:00 pm., and by appointment. For information, contact (305) 438-1163 or info@themoorespace.org
resources available on the web>
articles>
Roberta Smith, “Joan
Jonas”, NY Times, December 3, 1999
Martha Schwendener, “Joan
Jonas, In the Shadows of a Shadow”, Time Out New York, Issue No. 220,
December 9-16, 1999
Lisa Liebmann, Top
Ten – Best of 2000, Artforum, December, 2000
Noemi Smolik, “Joan
Jonas–Galerie Der Stadt Stuttgart”, Artforum, September 2001
Rosanna Albertini, “Stories
Begin with a Phantom – Joan Jonas’s installation”, NY
Arts Magazine, Vol. 8 n. 3, 2003
Dawn
Ambrose, writing on “Joan
Jonas’s ‘Vertical Roll”.
Brief description of her work from Dawn Ambrose, Joan
Jonas Scripts and Descriptions, in Schneider and Korot (eds.), Video Art.
New York: Raindance Foundation and Horcorut Bioce Jovanovich, 1976
bio-bibliographies>
Bio of the artist in the MIT
website.
Bio-biliography
at Rosamund Felsen
Gallery website.
Bio compiled by Dawn Ambrose for Joan Jonas
Scripts and Descriptions, in Schneider and Korot (eds.), Video Art. New
York: Raindance Foundation and Horcorut Bioce Jovanovich, 1976
other
materials>
Online catalogue of Joan
Jonas’s video works compiled by Electronic Arts Intermix, NY.
Quick-time file of the video Vertical
Roll, 1972, 19:38 minutes.
Press release for the Early Film and Video Screening of Joan Jonas, DIA
Center and EAI, New York, 2000