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Joan Jonas
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Monday Dec 8, 2008 (8:30pm)
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$9
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Joan Jonas has been producing video and performance art for more than 30 years, and this evening appears in person alongside two recent works. Interpreting the literature of two seemingly very different writers — epic poet Dante Alighieri and art historian Aby Warburg — Jonas uncovers their hidden poetic and philosophical similarities. Footage of a forest, a European performance, and New York at night comprise Reading Dante, inspired by The Divine Comedy. The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things is a visual reflection on Aby Warburg's 1923 lecture regarding the Pueblo Indian snake ritual. By drawing from literary sources, both works move past being visual stagings of the written word, and become texts in their own right.
