Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and currently a professor of visual arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her works include: Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972), The Juniper Tree (1976), Volcano Saga (1985), Revolted by the Thought of Known Places… (1992), Woman in the Well (1996/2000), her portable My New Theater series (1997–1999), Lines in the Sand (2002), and The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things (2004). Her work has been featured in many exhibitions worldwide, and in 1994, Jonas was honored with a major retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in which she transformed several of her performance works into installations for the museum.