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Joan Jonas : they come to us without a word /

"'Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word' documents Jonas's project for the United States Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, an expansive installation that incrporates multiple components, included projected videos, drawings, and objects. Each section of the pavilion repre...

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Main Authors: Jonas, Joan, 1936
Corporate Authors: MIT List Visual Arts Center; Biennale di Venezia Venice, Italy
Group Author: Ha, Paul; Bauer, Ute Meta; Reynolds, Ann Morris; Schaffner, Ingrid; Warner, Marina, 1946; Farver, Jane; McGinty, Miko
Published: List Visual Arts Center,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, MA :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Jonas, Joan, > 1936- > Exhibitions
Site-specific installations Art > Italy > Venice > Exhibitions
Summary: "'Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word' documents Jonas's project for the United States Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, an expansive installation that incrporates multiple components, included projected videos, drawings, and objects. Each section of the pavilion represents a particular creature (bees, fish), object (mirror), force (wind), or place (homeroom). Recited fragments of ghost stories sourced from the oral tradition of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, form a continuous narrative linking one room to the next. As Jonas says, 'We are haunted, the rooms are haunted.' Designed with
Item Description: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word, United States Pavilion, organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center for the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy."
Carrier Form: 159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 32 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781941366073
1941366074
9783775740517
3775740511
Index Number: N6537
CLC: J198-28
Call Number: J198-28/J761
Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Process / Joan Jonas -- How the Box Contains Us / Ann Reynolds -- Joan Jonas : The Taste of the Clouds / Marina Warner -- They Come to Us without a Word / Joan Jonas -- Conversation with Joan Jonas / Ingrid Schaffner.

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