Join us for a conversation on the centrality of collaboration in Joan Jonas’s life and practice, organized in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning. The discussion will be led by Lilia Rocio Taboada and Gee Wesley, curatorial assistants in the Department of Media and Performance.
In the 1970s and ’80s, Jonas actively participated in the Downtown Manhattan performance scene, presenting collaborative versions of her own work and performing in works by experimental theater luminaries like the Wooster Group and Robert Ashley. Since then, Jonas’s collaborations across generations, disciplines, and species, have fueled a rich multidisciplinary practice. Through rarely presented video works, archival footage, and research from oral history interviews with Jonas’s former students and performers, this program traces the crucial role of collaboration and performing with others over her five-decade career.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the conversation will begin at 6:30 p.m. Please enter through the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building at 4 W 54th Street. Advance registration is required and capacity is limited; reservation admits two and is nontransferable.
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