Joan Jonas

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jan 01, 1936 (89 years old)

Joan Jonas

Known For

Moving Off the Land
0h 21m
Movie 2018

Moving Off the Land

Moving Off the Land celebrates the ocean and its creatures, biodiversity, and delicate ecology.

Volcano Saga
0h 28m
Movie 1989

Volcano Saga

This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.

Biography

Joan Jonas is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art who is one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1] Jonas' projects and experiments provided the foundation on which much video performance art would be based. Her influences also extended to conceptual art, theatre, performance art and other visual media. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada. From Wikipedia.

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