"REVOLTED BY THE THOUGHT OF KNOWN PLACES": Joan Jonas

(images from Hatje Cantz's Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation 1968-2000)

"Masquerade is not as recuperable as transvestism precisely because it constitutes an acknowledgment that it is femininity itself which is constituted as a mask -- as the decorative layer that conceals a non-identity."

--Mary Anne Doane, "Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator"

"In her artistic practice, Joan Jonas excludes the rational comprehension of reality no less than the passage through irrational spheres."

--Johann-Karl Schmidt, "Joan Jonas and the Anthropological Portrait"

"MIRROR PIECE I" (1969) (1/2)

"ORGANIC HONEY'S VERTICAL ROLL" (1972) (1/2)

(2/2)

"MIRAGE" (1976) (1/2)

(2/2)

"MIRROR PIECES" (1969/70)

"MIRROR PIECE I" (1969) (2/2)

"NOVA SCOTIA BEACH DANCE" (1971)

"THE JUNIPER TREE" (1976) (1/2)

(2/2)

"VOLCANO SAGA" (1985)

"VARIATIONS ON A SCENE" (1990)