Joan Jonas
Strange exhibition at Tate Modern looking at the career of Joan Jonas, a pioneer of performance art. I say strange because it’s quite hard to represent performance art in a static show without the artist. This gave a good flavour but felt a bit quiet and clinical. Also I don’t really get performance art and lose patience with it quite quickly. I did like the theatre boxes, long boxes showing video at the far end and with objects in the foregrounds. They were a novel way of showing video art and reminded me of Dutch illusion boxes. I also liked the wall of objects and masks Jonas uses in her work. It’s a couple of weeks since I saw the show and not a lot of it has stayed with me. I was amused by a video of Jonas dancing alone in her studio expect for the rather quizzical dog. Closes on 5 August 2018 Reviews Times Guardian Telegraph Evening Standard