Annotated Bibliography

Joan Jonas “Mirror Piece 1” 1969

"Joan Jonas Performance Video Installation." Hatjie Cantz, 2001.

This book was helpful as it directly focused on Joan Jonas. It formed the basis of my research, and helped to develop an overview of her pieces. It had detailed pictures, as well as a number of essays and interviews based on her works between 1968 and 2000.

Website: http://arttattler.com/archivejonas.html. (Accessed 25/5/12)

This website gives a great overview of Joan Jonas’ work, spanning from her early works to her more recent, current works. There are multiple images per piece, giving the reader a good idea of the actual performance. It also provides the date the work was made and the location. The only downside I would say is that it is not in chronological order of the time the work was created. Some of the works have extensive background writings and academic’s opinions stated.

Movie Clip from YouTube:

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiYsGBMHNqI (accessed 27/5/12)

This short interview was really useful as it combined interview footage and documentation of the actual piece “Mirage”. Jonas speaks about her influences, and what she has done in this piece. She also refers to the fact that the piece has been re-made and re=performed since 1976. It was helpful as it proved ridiculously hard to see any footage of her work, thus this piece was the closest I got to seeing “Mirage”.

Jonas, Jens Hoffman and Joan. Art Works, Perform. 2005. Thames and Hudson.

Although this book did not focus on Jonas, but was written on her, it was still a lot of help in understanding what is performance art. The first 32 (or so) pages directly discuss ‘performance’ art and give a good example of a few. It also focuses on the development of performance art, whilst still sharing a few perspectives and ways of interpreting it.