Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas
Born in New York, 1936
Jonas is a sculpture, performance and video artist; she started using video and monitors in 1972 in the performance “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy’, in which she included different materials like mirrors, masks, and other materials, as well as video to analyze female roles and identity.
In 1972, she also created the piece “Vertical Roll”, in which she used the horizontal malfunction in a television set creating a piece in which a technical malfunction became the visual solution. Without any editing, the artist appears on the screen slamming a table at the same time the horizontal line of the television set is moving up and down rhythmically. It seems like her video piece is controlling the television set. In a different part of the piece the artist performs different actions creating a synchrony with the banging rhythm as well as with her movements. In the end of the video the only part of the artist’s body in the monitor is the head, which appears being hit by the vertical line, creating a series of perceptual illusions.
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