Joan Jonas in her exhibition They Come to Us without a Word in the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Photo by Moira Ricci.
Joan Jonas in her exhibition They Come to Us without a Word in the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Photo by Moira Ricci.
Joan Jonas in her exhibition They Come to Us without a Word in the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Photo by Moira Ricci.
Joan Jonas in her exhibition They Come to Us without a Word in the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Photo by Moira Ricci.
Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY, USA) is a pioneer of video and performance art, and an acclaimed multimedia artist whose work typically encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing. Trained in art history and sculpture, Jonas was a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s, and her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of ritual, and the authority of objects and gestures.
Joan Jonas is a New York native and she continues to live and work in New York City. She received a B.A. in Art History from Mount Holyoke College in 1958, studied sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and received an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Columbia University in 1965. Jonas has taught at MIT since 1998, and is currently Professor Emerita in the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology within the School of Architecture and Planning.
Judith Barry is an artist and writer whose research-based practice combines multiple disciplines and forms of artistic production to question technologies of representation. These include cinema/media, exhibition design, performance, architecture, sculpture, and photography. Her background in film history and critical theory, architecture and design, dance, and fine art influences the ultimate form of each project: there are some constants in her methodology particularly as they relate to her use of media including the language of cinema alongside her interrogation of form.
Judith Barry spatializes the language of cinema and media both as form and subject matter. Transforming exhibition spaces through installation into experiences, Barry uses media projection, built elements, and sculptural forms to produce inhabitable spatial constructions.
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