Description
Joan Jonas, Car Tape, 1976. Video, black and white, sound. Component in the performance Mirage (1976) and the multimedia installation Mirage (1976/1994/2005).
This video, shown on a vertical monitor, shows a continuous scene of a drive down a tree-lined road, shot from the front seat of a moving car. However, the landscape image is repeatedly interrupted every few seconds by the video’s horizontal roll. Car Tape (1976) is included in the performance Mirage (1976), in which it is shown on the onstage video monitor, and in the installation Mirage (1976/1994/2005).
—KP
Bibliographic References
Jonas, Joan. “Mirage [Script].” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 218–27. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Still a Renegade After All These Years.” New York Times, January 8, 2010, C33.
“Video: Car Tape. Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas.” The Museum of Modern Art, New York.