These resources provide more information about the artistic milieu of downtown New York of the 1960s and 1970s in which Joan Jonas lived, worked, and developed her practice.
Bibliography
Davis, Douglas. “SOHO DU MAL, Film, Video, Culture and Politics.” In New York-Downtown Manhattan: Soho: Ausstellungen, Theater, Musik, Performance, Video, Film, edited by René Block, Ursula Block, and Kurt Thöricht, 211–236. [Berlin]: Akademie der Künste, 1976.
Lippard, Lucy R. “The Geography of Street Time: A Survey of Street Works Downtown.” In New York-Downtown Manhattan: Soho: Ausstellungen, Theater, Musik, Performance, Video, Film, edited by René Block, Ursula Block, and Kurt Thöricht, 180–210. [Berlin]: Akademie der Künste, 1976.
Cooke, Lynne, Douglas Crimp, and Kristin Poor, eds. Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices from the 1970s to the Present. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
Crimp, Douglas. “Action Around the Edges.” In Before Pictures, 147–181. Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press; Chicago and London: The Chicago University Press, 2016.
Janevski, Ana, and Thomas Lax, eds. Judson Dance Theater, The Work is Never Done. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2018.
Moore, Alan, and Debra Wacks. “Being There: The Tribeca Neighborhood of Franklin Furnace.” TDR 49, no. 1 (2005): 60–79.
Sanders, Jay. Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1980. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Rachleff, Melissa, ed. Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–65. New York: Grey Art Gallery, DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2017.
Shkuda, Aaron. The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980. Chicago and London: The Chicago University Press, 2016.
Taylor, Marvin J., ed. The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974–1984. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Interviews
- Joan Jonas on Organic Honey, October 2018
- Joan Jonas on Organic Honey Performances and Videos, December 2020
- Interview with Douglas Crimp (art historian, critic and curator in the fields of postmodern theory and art, dance, film, queer, and feminist theory), March 2019
- Interview with Douglas Crimp (art historian, critic and curator in the fields of postmodern theory and art, dance, film, queer, and feminist theory), April 2019
- Interview with Constance DeJong (artist, writer, performer, and professor of art and time-based media at Hunter College, New York), December 2019
- Interview with Simone Forti (American-Italian artist, choreographer, dancer, and writer), December 2020
- Interview with Carol Mersereau (New York-based artist and photographer), September 2020
- Interview with Joan Simon (independent curator and writer based in Paris), January 2021
- Interview with Gwenn Thomas (New York-based artist), June 2019