Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas, 1972) from women slowly undress Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 11 min 82 sec ✓ Published: 30-Sep-2021
Description: Trained as a sculptor, Joan Jonas turned to performance and video art in the late 1960s. Her pioneering experiments and innovations with these relatively unexplored mediums placed her among the foremost women artists to emerge in the early 1970s. In 1972, she completed Vertical Roll, a black-and-white video centered upon a technological glitch common to television. “The reason why it’s called ‘Vertical Roll’ [is] because in the piece there’s a rolling bar of the video, which is a dysfu
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