Mungo Thomson

still from Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy, 1972, 17 min., b&w video with sound. Courtesy the artist. After three years of exhibitions in our Chinatown gallery, Screening is proud to present its final exhibition: Organic Honeys Visual Telepathy, by groundbreaking multi-media artist Joan Jonas. Following Screenings exhibition of work by experimenta... l filmmaker Pat ONeill, we conclude our exhibition program with the second of two exhibitions by pioneers of moving-image arteach demonstrating unique visions that have helped to pave the way for moving-image makers in recent decades. Known for uncompromising experiments that fuse her knowledge of art history, modern theater, dance, sculpture and performance art, as well as Kabuki and Noh theater, Jonas has produced a singular body of work. These influences are on display in her 1972 videotape Organic Honeys Visual Telepathy, all filtered through what was, at the time, the newly accessible technology of video production. Jonas performance-for-camera is part ritual, part magic show, exploring the possibilities of the female image through alter egos and technological transformation. New York-based artist Joan Jonas (b. 1936) was awarded the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award in 1988, and was also the recipient of the 3rd Annual Polaroid Video Art Award in 1987. Jonas has received grants for choreography, video and the visual arts from the New York State Council on the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Guggenheim Foundation; and the Rockefeller Foundation. Jonas has performed and exhibited her work extensively throughout the world. In 2004 she was honored with a retrospective at the Queens Museum of Art in New York, entitled Joan Jonas: Five Works. She has also had major retrospectives at Stedelijk Museum and Stadtsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Other one-person exhibitions and performances include Kunstmuseum, Bern; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Kitchen, New York; San Francisco Museum of Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley, ...Read More