Write a lucid essay of 500 words discussing the notion of decentering as it relates to the practice of drawing in Reanimation and/or in her Venice Biennale project.
In his 1983 essay, “De-Synchronization in Joan Jonas’s Performances,” the critic Douglas Crimp wrote: “Jonas’s performances can never exist in the integrity of their scripts and descriptions, just as the notion of art that we take away from these works is that it can now exist only in the process of its enactment, not in its integrity as an object.” He goes on to argue that in Jonas’s performances and videos “there is no centered self.” We have examined four kinds of moving image documentation of recent work by Joan Jonas: (NEED THE WRITER TO FIND THESE DOCUMENTS) Art21 studio interview with Joan Jonas (2014) documentation of a performance of Joan Jonas’s Reanimation (2014) Antiphony, a dual portrait of the collaboration between Jason Moran & Joan Jonas (2013) Joan Jonas providing an overview of her Venice Biennale project (2015) These documents were assembled over thirty years after Crimp’s remarks, yet arguably his observations of 1982 still stand. Indeed, Jonas herself, in another interview, suggests that an artistic career is built on gestures and ideas one discovers early on. Write a lucid essay of 500 words discussing the notion of decentering as it relates to the practice of drawing in Reanimation and/or in her Venice Biennale project. (For the latter, you may use the materials available on the dedicated website at joanjonasvenice2015.com.) Please print out your paper double-spaced in 10- or 12-point font and staple its pages. Do not include a cover page but do remember to put your name at the top of the first page. Your paper is due in class on Monday, November 9. No extensions. PLEASE NOTE: Plagiarism, appropriating the work of others and presenting it as your own, will result in a failure for the assignment.
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