JOAN JONAS TO REPRESENT US AT 2015 VENICE BIENNALE

The New York Times’ Carol Vogel reports that film and video-art pioneer Joan Jonas will be representing the United States at next year’s edition of the Venice Biennale. Paul C. Ha, director of the M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center and commissioner of America’s pavilion, proposed Jonas, who was then officially selected by the State Department’s bureau of educational and cultural affairs. Jonas’s work has appeared at Documenta six times, and was featured at an exhibition at the Queens Museum in 2003. Along with Ute Meta Bauer, the director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Singapore, Ha will organize the pavilion’s exhibition, for which Jonas will create a site-specific installation that includes video, drawings, objects, and sound.