Video
Joan Jonas, Mirage II, 1976/2000. Video, black and white, sound, 30:00 min. Edited in collaboration with Seth Price, Electronic Arts Intermix. Component in the multimedia installations Mirage (1976/2001) and Mirage (1976/1994/2005). Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Description
For Mirage II (1976/2000), Jonas edited some newly rediscovered footage dating from around the time of the original Mirage performance into a thirty-minute video. The video combines Funnel (1974) performance documentation, chalk-on-blackboard drawings, footage recorded by Richard Serra of Jonas performing in a Sardinian landscape, commercials and news footage Jonas shot off of the television in the 1970s, and previously unseen documentation of Jonas and Pat Steir improvising with metal cones at night on empty streets in downtown Manhattan. This new montage, which was created in 2000 and first screened at Dia Center for the Arts in New York, was made to be simultaneously projected with the film Mirage I (1976), which included the entire drawing film as well as footage of Jonas stepping through a hoop and performing other actions in her studio. In 2000, for her retrospective exhibition at Galerie der Stadt, Stuttgart, Jonas added Mirage II to her installation version of Mirage (1976/1994) for the first time, and the video remains a part of the current installation version of Mirage (1976/1994/2005), in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The video is also a component of the related installation Mirage (1976/2001), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Bibliographic References
“Mirage 2.” Electronic Arts Intermix.
Simon, Joan. “Mirage II.” In In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, edited by Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, 235. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015.
Williams, Robin Kathleen. “A Mode of Translation: Joan Jonas’s Performance Installations.” Stedelijk Studies, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 1–19.
“Joan Jonas: Film and Video Work, 1968–76.” September 28, 2000. Dia Center for the Arts and EAI, New York. Event program.
Interviews
- Interview with Rebecca Cleman and Karl McCool (respectively the Executive Director, and the Distribution Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) in New York), January 2021
- Interview with Andrea Lissoni (artistic director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich), March 2019
- Interview with Seth Price (New York-based multidisciplinary artist and writer, and former staff member of Electronic Arts Intermix, New York), November 2020
- Interview with Lori Zippay (Emeritus Director at Electronic Arts Intermix, New York) August 2020