Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll (1972)

December 20, 2012
Screening
Black and white image of a woman lying on her side.

Joan Jonas, still from Vertical Roll, 1972. MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2007. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Location
20 Ames Street Building E15 Cambridge, MA 02139
Day & Time

Vertical Roll is a seminal work. In a startling collusion of form and content, Jonas constructs a theater of female identity by deconstructing representations of the female body and the technology of video. Using an interrupted electronic signal — or "vertical roll" — as a dynamic formal device, she dislocates space, re-framing and fracturing the image.

This program is FREE and open to the general public. All are welcome.