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CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
December 8 - December 8, 2014Info
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http://www.wattis.org/
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415-355-9670
In a career spanning over forty years, performance artist Joan Jonas has projected and destabilized the markers of authorship, embodiment, gender, and narrative. Poetry often furnishes her source material; as she notes, "I was very influenced…by the idea of poetic structure—the way a poem is put together in relation to the way I put an image together.”
Poet Ronaldo V. Wilson expands the poetic text through video, performance, and sound recordings; like Jonas, he is fascinated by masking, movement, and feedback structures. In "Called by Response: Jonas | Wilson," Wilson juxtaposes his own work with screened segments of Jonas's, inviting the audience to explore each artist's uses of text, myth, music, and the moving image as he experiments with what it means to have Jonas "on his mind."
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Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is also an Assistant Professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz. His latest books: Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other is forthcoming from Counterpath Press, and Lucy 72 will be released by 1913 Press. Wilson was a 2013 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the 2014 Artist in Residence at the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T).
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Called by Response: Jonas | Wilson is organized by Patricia Maloney (Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, CCA) and Frances Richard (Associate Professor of Fine Arts, CCA) and is the fourth of a year-long series of events about and around the work of Joan Jonas.