These videos are closely related to the Organic Honey performances and are components of the Organic Honey performances, the installation Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy / Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (1972/1994), or the Organic Honey archive installations. Included here are three reels of unedited video footage from the artist’s studio archives. With the exception of the unedited footage and Two Women (1973), the videos included here are independent, single-channel videos which Jonas considers to be artworks in their own right. Most can be viewed in their entirety by clicking below.
Videos
Interviews
- Joan Jonas on Organic Honey, October 2018
- Joan Jonas on Organic Honey Performances and Videos, December 2020
- 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 David Ross (chair of the MFA Practice program at the School of Visual Arts, New York), June 2019
- Interview with Gwenn Thomas (New York-based artist), June 2019
- Interview with Stephen Vitiello (American visual and sound artist, formerly Director of Distribution at Electronic Arts Intermix from 1988–2000), December 2019
- Interview with Lori Zippay (Emeritus Director at Electronic Arts Intermix, New York) August 2020
Image captions
Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972) (video): Joan Jonas, video still from Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, 1972. Video, black and white, sound, 17:24 min. Camera: Joan Jonas, assisted by Linda Patton. Source: Joan Jonas Studio.
Vertical Roll (1972) (video): Joan Jonas, still from Vertical Roll, 1972. Video, black and white, sound, 19:38 min. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (1973–99) (video documentation): Joan Jonas, still from Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, 1973–99. Video, black and white, sound, 15 min. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Organic Honey Unedited Video Footage: Joan Jonas, still from Organic Honey, Reel 3, 1973. Unedited video footage, black and white, sound, 19:00 min. Camera: Joyce Nereaux. Source: Joan Jonas Studio.
Duet (1972): Joan Jonas, still from Duet, 1972. Video, black and white, sound, 4:23 min. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Anxious Automation (1971) by Richard Serra: Richard Serra, still from Anxious Automation, 1971. Video, black and white, sound, 4:27 min.
Two Women (1973): Joan Jonas, still from Two Women, 1973. Video, black and white, sound, 20 min. Published in Joan Simon and Joan Jonas, eds., In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas (New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2015), 182.