An acclaimed multi-media performance artist, Joan Jonas is also a major figure in video art. From her seminal performance-based exercises of the 1970s to her later televisual narratives, Jonas engages in an elusive theatrical portrayal of female identity. Employing an idiosyncratic vocabulary of ritualized gesture and symbolic objects that include masks, mirrors, and costuming, she explores the self and the body through layers of meaning. full biography
1968, 5:37 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on video
1972, 4:23 min, b&w, sound
1972, 8:50 min, b&w, sound
1972, 17:24 min, b&w, sound
1972, 19:38 min, b&w, sound
1973, 17:27 min, b&w, sound
1973, 18:35 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video
1973, 15:34 min, b&w, sound
Three Returns
1973, 13:14 min., b&w, sound
Barking
1973, 2:22 min., b&w, sound
1973-99, 15 min, b&w, sound
1974, 11 min, b&w, sound
1974, 16:13 min., b&w, sound
1976, 11:38 min, b&w, sound
1976, 24:06 min, color, sound
1976, 13:58 min, b&w, sound
1976, 31 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film on video
1976-2000, 30 min, b&w, sound
1980, 29:03 min, color, sound
1983, 19:32 min, color, sound
1984, 23:36 min, color, sound
1984, 24:04 min, color, sound
1988, 6:12 min, color, sound
1989, 28 min, color, sound
2003, 7:03 min, color, sound
1974-75, 55:45 min, b&w, sound
Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson
1969, 22 min, b&w, sound
