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Joan Jonas : The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things presents a complex five-channel video installation by this seminal video and performance artist. Since the 1970s, Jonas has worked between media, freely incorporating video, movement, music, sculpture, and the spoken word into open-ended narratives. The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things returns Jonas to the American Southwest through an artistic consideration of the Hopi snake dance, a ritual which strongly affected her during visits to Arizona in the 1960s. Jonas broadens the associations with references to an essay on the same subject by German art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929).
Woven through the installation are references to the Southwest, from Warburgs 19th century recollections to the commercial present. Jonas has commented that she is interested in how stories are retold in modern or contemporary terms and how they can mean something to us. Its something that Ive dealt with a lot over the years: how stories come down to us in fragmented forms. For The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, I went to Arizona and I was thinking about memories of the American landscape, by which I mean memories from before the Europeans came here. The Southwest is a perfect example of different cultures layered on top of each other, and next to each other. Im very interested in how stories are retold, of course. Thats what we dowe retell stories. Jonas projections and props are tableaux, investigating expressive values, shaping her stories and magical tales through visual and aural, sensual and imaginative clusters of affinities.
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