What Makes an Artist Collaboration Work? Joan Jonas and Jason Moran Reflect on Their Decades-Long Exchange

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Joan Jonas and Jason Moran, Modern Working Together: A Lecture Demonstration, 2018. Performance view, Tate Modern, London, 2018. Photography by Lewis Ronald. All images courtesy of Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

For six decades, the artist Joan Jonas has diligently defied any notion of completeness in her kaleidoscopic oeuvre. The 87-year-old continually revists her recordings, large screens, drawings, and photographs, offering those who’ve followed her a refracted experience as she layers elements of previous work, building her own geology. Past and present allide across film footage, convex mirrors, and props—sticks, flags, kites, even a taxidermy coyote—in the sonic surround of her music and vocals.

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