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| Joan Jonas, Draw Without Looking, 2013. As part of BMW Tate Live: Performance Room, Tate Modern. Photograph © Tate 2013 |
Draw Without Looking. 2013
A performance by Joan Jonas
as part of the BMW Tate Live
Draw Without Looking was a new work created especially for the Performance Room.
Joan Jonas uses her own teaching notes as source material to create a set of instructions in the form of poem. These instructions ‘draw for an audience’, ‘fold paper’, ‘make a mask’ and others – are performed spontaneously by the artist in the Performance Room. Performance Room is a series of performances commissioned and conceived exclusively for the online space. Performances are streamed live from the Performance Room at Tate Modern and then made available to watch online after the event.
Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York) is a pioneering video and performance artist. Her work often draws upon space, movement, ritual and gesture, combining traditional and new media. Jonas’ work has been performed and exhibited throughout the world. She has had major retrospectives across the world including at the Queens Museum of Art in New York and the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands. Solo exhibitions and performances include the Kunstmuseum, the Walker Art Centre, The Kitchen, Yvon Lambert Gallery among others. Filmed live Thursday, 28 February, 2013
at Tate Modern, London
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