Artist Talk: Joan Jonas
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FREE Advance Insider tickets available Friday, August 21, 7 PM (space is limited) General tickets available Monday, August 24, 7 PM We strongly recommend claiming a ticket to ensure your seat. This in-person program is expected to be at capacity. Questions? Email Hirshhornexperience@si.edu Hirshhorn Insiders, email HMSGdevelopment@si.edu Join us for an intimate conversation with pioneering multimedia artist Joan Jonas. Widely recognized as one of the founding figures of American performance art, Jonas began bridging film and video, installation and sculpture, and body art in the mid-1960s, often experimenting with movement, mirrors, and natural forces to forward her inquiry into perception. The program celebrates a joint acquisition of two watershed Jonas artworks by two American centers of modern and contemporary art scholarship, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and The Gund at Kenyon College. The artworks—a multimedia installation, Mirror Pieces Installation II (1969/2014), and the film Wind (1968)—are strong representations of the artist’s early work and the first by Jonas to enter both collections. Jonas is joined in conversation by Marina Isgro, curator of media and performance art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Daisy Desrosiers, curatorial and strategic lead at The Gund/Britton Family Curator-at-Large, North America, at Tate Modern. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York City) is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide
