Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas
December 16, 2009 | Levent OZLER
The Museum of Modern Art announced Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas, a gallery installation by the artist Joan Jonas, in The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery.
The installation, which recently entered MoMA's collection, re-imagines Mirage, a groundbreaking performance originally created in 1976 for the screening room of New York's Anthology Film Archives.
For the original performance version of Mirage, Jonas carried out a series of movements-including percussive running and drawing-while interacting with a variety of sculptural components, films, and videos.
In the MoMA installation, original objects and photographs from the 1976 performance are combined with six moving image works (May Windows, Good Night Good Morning, Car Tape, Volcano Film, Mirage 1, and Mirage 2), which are shown both on monitors in the gallery and projected onto the gallery walls.
"Joan Jonas has studied a wide range of subjects, and in the late 1960s she began to explore time as a material for art, both inspired by and part of an emerging practice that merged traditional performance mediums, such as dance, with avant-garde experimentation in the visual arts," said Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art.
"Although she has been ever responsive to new ideas and mediums, for nearly 40 years Jonas has resolutely kept performance and video at the center of her practice."
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