Abstract
© 2007 Nicholas Birns The distinct contribution of Joan Jonas to postmodern performance has been the introduction of a defined narrative and a complicated relationship with anterior source material into tableaux, without yielding to conventional storytelling. In works such as The Juniper Tree, inspired by the Brothers Grimm, and the more recent Lines In The Sand based on the poet H. D.’s modernist-feminist epic Helen In Egypt (whose enactment of modernity’s critical quest for primal, archaic nurturing is a clear precursor to The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things), Jonas has been inspired by literary sources without simply adapting them. She performs in her own pieces with other actors, theatrical props, and a complicated series of video presentations. Furthermore, Jonas’s films, drawings, and sound effects are part of these presentations and provide multiple conduits for her response to the source material. SITES OF DESIRE
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