Reading DanteJoan Jonas
| Nov ’09 |
| 10 |
| 5:00 pm |
“Reading Dante,” a large-scale performance by video and performance pioneer Joan Jonas, is based on elements from Dante’s epic fourteenth-century poem “The Divine Comedy,” collaging footage shot in four locations—the Canadian woods, 1970s New York, a ruin surrounding a lava field in Mexico City, and a shadow play in Italy—together to translate Dante into Jonas’s own remarkable “infernal paradise.”
Joan Jonas’ influence was crucial to the development of contemporary art in many genres–from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. During the past decade, Jonas has collaborated with composers such as Alvin Lucier to develop collaborative video-performance works, and has performed and toured with The Wooster Group. Her most recent work continues to explore the relationship of new digital media to performance. She has been awarded fellowships and grants for choreography, video, and visual arts from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the CAT Fund, the Artist TV Lab at WNET/13 (New York City), the Television Workshop at WXX1 (Rochester), and the Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) in Germany. Jonas has received the Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art Prize at the Tokyo International Video Art Festival, the Polaroid Award for Video, and the American Film Institute Maya Deren Award for Video.
A Performa Premiere. Supported by Performa Producer’s Circle Member Shane Akroyd.
Nov.10 – Nov.13 at 8:30pm
Nov. 14 at 5pm and 8pm
Tickets: $20 / $16 Performa Members
