A conceptually innovative take on Jonas performances and installationsPublished in conjunction with the first major US museum show of Joan Jonas art in nearly 15 years this volume breaks new ground by contextualizing and expanding understandings of Jonas body of work through three thematic approaches the critical notions of gender being and otherness the politics of landscape and ecology and new conceptions of medium specificity and unspecificity. These themes serve as a framework through which to address the rich vocabulary of Jonas performances sculptures drawings and installations from the early 1970s until today.Inspired by the format of a reader the monograph presents new writing and scholarship excerpts from Douglas Crimps final interview as well as a selection of drawings and sketches from Jonas notebooks including neverbeforepublished drawings created during the coronavirus lockdown.Born and based in New York Joan Jonas born 1936 has taught at UCLA School of the Arts in Stuttgart Germany and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is a professor emerita. She has lived and worked in Greece Morocco India Germany Holland Iceland Poland Japan Italy Hungary and Ireland.