Joan Jonas: The Juniper Tree
About This Event
Joan Jonas, a New York–based artist whose work helped shape video and performance art, presents The Juniper Tree at Danspace Project. The program uses her hybrid methods—staging the body with cameras, props and live sound—and emphasizes structured, theatrical exchanges between image and performer rather than spectacle.
About The Juniper Tree
"The Juniper Tree" is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812. The story contains themes of child abuse, murder, cannibalism and biblical symbolism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales.
About the Artist
Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas is a New York–based artist whose work helped shape the language of video and performance art, drawing equally on dance, theater, and conceptual practice. Her projects often stage the body in conversation with cameras, props, and live sound, treating the image as an active partner rather than documentation.