Joan Jonas. (American, born 1936) Mirage. 1976/2005.
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Installation photograph by David Regen, 2005; courtesy of Yvon Lambert gallery, New York. 2009 United States
Installation with six videos (black and white, sound and silent), props, stages, photographs.
The Museum of Modern Art.
Gift of Richard Massey, Clarissa Alcock Bronfman, Agnes Gund, and Committee on Media Funds.
Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
Friday 18 December 2009 to Monday 31 May 2010
Inspired by a trip the artist took to India, Joan Jonas’s Mirage (1976/2005) was originally conceived as a 1976 performance for the screening room of New York’s Anthology Film Archives. In it, Jonas carried out a series of movements, such as running as a form of percussion and as gestural drawing, while interacting with a variety of sculptural components and video projections.
In 1994, the artist repurposed these elements—metal cones suggesting the form of volcanoes, videos of erupting volcanoes, wooden hoops, a mask, photographs, and chalkboards, among other items—as a discrete installation, which was itself reconfigured in 2005. At MoMA, the artist once again reimagines the work in an installation that combines elements of ritual, memory, repetition, and rehearsal with games, drawn actions, and syncopated rhythms.
Location
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA11 West 53 Street
Midtown Manhattan Precinct
New York
United States
