Oral history interview with Joan Jonas, 2009.

Biographical Note

Artist. Performance artist.

Scope and Contents

Born 1936; childhood in New York; education: B.A. Mount Holyoke College, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, M.F.A Columbia University; influences and symbols in art: animals, Dante Alighieri, fairytales, Icelandic sagas, landscape, literature, mythology, nature, narrative structure, Noh theater tradition, rituals; vertical roll of video technique; travel in Greece 1966; transition from sculpture to performance art; installations at Dia Beacon; teaching: MIT Visual Arts Program, University of California Los Angeles; residency University of Texas Austin; performances and installations: Double Lunar Dogs, Organic Honey, Organic Honey's First Visual Telepathy, Organic Honey's Vertical Roll, Performa, Reading Dante, Songdelay, The Juniper Tree, Veil, Vertical Roll, Volcano Saga, Wind; Venice Biennale; interaction with Richard Serra.

Subjects

• Feminism and art.
• Glueck, Grace H., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Jonas, Joan, 1936---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Performance artists.
• Serra, Richard, 1938-
• Women artists--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright held by: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2009