20. September 2007 – 24. Februar 2008

Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas’ experiments and productions in the late sixties and early seventies were essential in the formulation of performance, video, conceptual art and contemporary theatre. Born in New York in 1936, she is regarded as a pioneer in those fields, especially video art and performance.

Jonas studied art in, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York and soon became connected with the world of dance (she worked with Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer). In the last decades she has worked with composers like Alvin Lucier on a number of installations and performances, and has acted with The Wooster Group. Her first works investigated notions of space and phenomena of perception, where elements from dance, Japanese Kabuki or Noh theatre, sculpture and, most of all, drawing converge. In his performances, she has developed an emblematic vocabulary, synthesising ritual gestures and symbolic objects, and including masks, costumes and mirrors, playing with archaic methods of creation of optical illusions or special effects. She began using video in her performances in Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972) -which is part of the MACBA Collection-, including live cameras and monitors as a means of transformation and superimposition of images, space and time.

Adresse

MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
08001 Barcelona
Fon +34 93 412 08 10
http://www.macba.es/

Öffnungszeiten

25 September-23 June
Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday, Holidays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Closed on Tuesday

24 June - 24 September
Monday-Friday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday, Holidays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Closed on Tuesday

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