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Raymond Edward Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995), known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art. Once called "New York's most famous unknown artist", Johnson also staged and participated in early performance art events associated with the Fluxus movement and was the founder of a far-ranging mail art network – the New York Correspondence School – which picked up momentum in the 1960s and is still active today. He lived in New York City from 1949 to 1968, when he moved to a small town in Long island and remained there until his suicide.
Most Popular Joan Jonas Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
25 November 1981
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her.
01 January 1983
He Saw Her Burning, which is based on a 1983 performance, is a provocative narrative collage, a surreal juxtaposition of two narrated texts.
08 December 1976
In this experimental film, Borden explores the dynamics among the members of a woman’s group. As she interviews people who know them, such as Joan Jonas, the group shoots ‘artistic’ scenes of themselves – but Borden feels they aren’t fully grappling with issues of sexuality and politics.
09 September 1974
In Mirror Check Jonas uses a small handheld mirror to inspect her naked body in front of an audience]
01 January 2015
2015. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. Presented as a two-channel diptych: Green Timeline (3:41 min.); Mirror Timeline (3:48 min.
01 January 2015
2015. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. 4 min.
01 October 2007
Frenetic silhouettes pass us by.
06 July 1974
Short movie by Joan Jonas.
05 June 2006
This film was made in the summer of 2006 in Jonas's Nova Scotia home. It reuses the format of a 1976 film in which the artist recorded herself reciting "good night" to the camera before retiring for bed.
03 September 2005
This piece includes many iconographical elements that have evolved in Jonas’s practice since the early 1970s, including the mirror, the hoop and the dog.
27 September 2019
A Jamaican fisherman describes fishing practices.
01 January 1976
Jonas intercuts scenes of the Nova Scotia countryside with images of a studio set-up reminiscent of a di Chirico painting.
07 March 1973
This complex and enigmatic work, which is performed by Jonas and Lois Lane, explores female gestures, poses, the body and narcissism.
01 January 1976
Mirage was designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives in New York's SoHo neighborhood, where Joan Jonas first performed the piece on several nights over a few weeks in 1976, for an audience of her friends: local artists, musicians, and dancers.
04 January 1973
Two women kiss.
01 January 1992
1992/1994. USA. Directed by Joan Jonas. Presented as a two-channel diptych: Berlin Wall (9:39 min.); Berlin Road (9:35 min.
02 February 1972
In this early work, Jonas translates her performance strategies to video, applying the inherent properties of the medium to her investigations of the self and the body.
07 June 1972
In this seminal exploration of the phenomenology of video as a mirror and as "reality," Jonas, face-to-face with her own recorded image, performs a duet with herself.
04 January 1973
Barking is infused with a sense of mystery, the anticipation that something is about to happen. A car is parked outside a house in a rural Nova Scotia landscape.
14 January 2004
Five-channel video installation which responds to German art historian Aby Warburg’s essay about his visit to the American Southwest.
31 December 1971
The film is an adaptation from two sources: Kinesics and Context by Ray L. Birdwhistell, and Choreoms
01 January 1968
Cutting between snowy fields and a raw seashore, Jonas focuses on a group of performers moving through a stark, windswept landscape.
01 January 1984
Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of post-apocalyptic survival aboard a “spacecraft,” travelling aimlessly through the universe, whose passengers have forgotten the purpose of their mission.
01 June 2018
Moving Off the Land celebrates the ocean and its creatures, biodiversity, and delicate ecology.
01 January 2003
Jonas's performance piece, an homage to 18th century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology as well as spontaneously occurring events into the narrative.
01 January 1989
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.
11 August 1975
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated rhythm of its action and dialogue, this film is reminiscent of the playful and parodying elements of the Beat fantasy Pull My Daisy.
01 January 1972
Cast as an “electronic erotic seductress,” the multiple costumes and roles performed by Jonas critically examine the ever-changing, but consistently unequal roles of women.
07 September 1973
Wind and Songdelay are two of Joan Jonas’s early performances filmed in the open air, in either natural or industrial environments.
01 January 1976
In the film, Jonas uses video as a diaristic construct to chart the passing of personal time through quotidian ritual.
01 January 1974
Disturbances extends Jonas' investigation of mirrored surfaces and spaces, as she explores reflections of movement and images in water.
14 September 1972
Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy is based on Jonas' 1972 performance of the same name, the first in which she used video.
01 January 1988
Still photographs, live video, and superimposed drawings created on a Quantel Paintbox are fused in this visual poem dedicated to a New York City landmark, the Brooklyn Bridge.
01 January 1980
In Upsidedown and Backwards, two fairy tales — The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Went Out to Learn Fear — are told simultaneously, one backwards and one forwards, each interrupting the other.
