Joan Jonas, Moving with No Pattern, 1998. three-channel video installation (sound), dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Pat Gallery , New York. The 1st Seoul International Media Art Biennale media_city seoul 2000 city: between 0 and 1. Seoul Museum of History. 2000
Known for enriching performance contexts through video reconstruction, Jonas documents a performance in an abandoned steel factory built in 1923 in Nazi Germany. This site later became a collective residence for marginalized mental patients. The video features performers moving without fixed patterns and spatially reconstructs fifty years of life through the everyday objects of the building’s former residents, creating a powerful meditation on time and memory.
