Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Joan Jonas, from the "Fiction" episode in the seventh season of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.

"Fiction" premiered in November 2014 on PBS.

In Sweden, pioneering artist Joan Jonas performs at both Umeå Jazzfestival with musician Jason Moran, and at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, where she reconfigures her 1969 performance Mirror Piece. Working in performance, video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, Jonas finds inspiration in mythic stories, investing texts from the past with the politics of the present. Wearing masks and drawing while performing on stage, Jonas disrupts the conventions of theatrical storytelling to emphasize potent symbols and critical self-awareness.

Learn more about the artist at:
https://art21.org/artist/joan-jonas

CREDITS | Series Created By: Susan Dowling & Susan Sollins. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve Moros Ortega. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Director of Production: Nick Ravich. Field Producer: Ian Forster. Editor: Mark Sutton. Director of Photography: Jarred Alterman, Claus Deubel, & Gary Henoch. Additional Photography: Linus Andersson, Amanda Björk, Niklas Forssen, Jonathan Näslund, Rafael Salazar, Miguel Sanchez-Martin, Fredrik Streiffert, Mark Walley, & Ava Wiland. Sound: Richard Gin, Agnès Jammal, Oliver Lumpe, Stephan Marshall, Johannes Oscarsson, Angela Walley, & David Williams.

Art Direction & Design: Open, New York. Online Editor: Don Wyllie. Composer: Peter Foley. Voiceover Artist: Jace Alexander, Dale Soules, & Joe Urla. Sound Mix: Cory Melious. Sound Edit: Matt Snedecor. Graphics Animation: CRUX Design. Artwork Animation: Stephanie Andreou. Assistant Editor: Carla Naranjo, Danny Rivera, Leana Siochi, Elizabeth J. Theis, & Bahron Thomas.

Artworks Courtesy of: Omer Fast; Katharina Grosse; Joan Jonas; Electronic Arts Intermix, New York; gb agency, Paris; & Johann König, Berlin.

Special Thanks: The Art21 Board of Trustees; Amaral Custom Fabrications; Bildmuseet; Micah Bozeman; Daniel Desure; Forest City Ratner; Framerunner; Hans Grosse; Hamburger Bahnhof; Heard City; Andria Hickey; Kellie Honeycutt; Kulturhuset Stadsteatern; Natalija Martinovic; Jason Moran; Nasher Sculpture Center; NorrlandsOperan; Pat Casteel Transcripts; Public Art Fund; Sam Rauch; Roy Lichtenstein Foundation; Estate of Roy Lichtenstein; Elisa Schroer; Ulrika Sten; & Iris Ströbel.

Additional Art21 Staff: Cristiana Baik, Nicole J. Caruth, KC Forcier, Joe Fusaro, Jessica Hamlin, Jonathan Munar, Alexis Patterson, Heather Reyes, Diane Vivona, & Nechama Winston.

Public Relations: CaraMar Publicity. Station Relations: De Shields Associates, Inc. Legal Counsel: Albert Gottesman.

In Memoriam: Susan Sollins, visionary creator of Art21 and Art in the Twenty-First Century.

Major underwriting for Season 7 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is provided by National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, Agnes Gund, Bloomberg, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Toby Devan Lewis, and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

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