Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3753302295 ISBN 13: 9783753302294

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2022

Synopsis

A multimedia meditation on the many meanings of the ocean across history

This volume closely follows the development of Joan Jonas’ (born 1936) multiformat project Moving off the Land. The artist’s most recent body of work, it encompasses three years of research into the significance of the ocean throughout history, and features sculptures, drawings, sound and new video productions. Jonas combines poetry and prose by writers such as Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville with texts by Rachel Carson and Sy Montgomery, and with moving images filmed in aquariums and in Jamaica, where algae bloom and over-fishing pose urgent threats to the ecosystem. The monograph includes the complete script for the performance along with annotations, images of Jonas’ live performance, and a complete chronology with documentation of the performance’s history.

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The publication closely follows the process of the artist Joan Jonas in developing the multiformat project Moving Off the Land. It is Jonas’s most recent body of work and encompasses three years of research into the significance of the ocean throughout history as a totemic, spiritual, and cultural reference. This monograph provides an access to the complete script for the performance, along with annotations, accompanied by images of Jonas’s live performance as well as a complete chronology with visuals of the performance’s history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3753302295
• ISBN 13: 9783753302294
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Bauer Uta Meta