In her artist talk
at AIB (June 2012), Jonas talked about there being a thin line between acting and
performance. In her attempt to distinguish the two, she said: “[In performance,
I] treat[ing] my body as material… It has to do with the way people perform in
rituals – a little related to dance - and acting is primarily involved with
text and also manipulating the voice and face in different ways”.
Several of the
ideas that Jonas discussed that evening interested me. She mentioned that
through the process of wearing masks, dressing up and using disguises, she
developed imaginary characters, states of mind and alter egos. The medium of
video enabled her to add a layer of detail and projection to her performances.
She also talked about how she created drawings of her dog, which became part of
the set, representing the presence of the dog and referencing “a mythic
relation to animals”. In ‘Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy’
(1972), Jonas performs by physically juxtaposing herself with the dog drawing,
unifying the two elements, and “the dog and the woman become one.”.
In my own video
work, which I am still in the process of resolving, I am addressing all of the
core themes mentioned above. The hybridization of woman and animal, archetypal
personae, mythology and the layering of imagery in video, all feature in my
assembly of moving images.
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