14 Rooms: Joan Jonas

Interview with Joan Jonas on the occasion of her participation in the Live Art Exhibition 14 Rooms. About the work "Mirror Check": The performer observes and examines her own naked body with a small, round hand-held mirror. The mirror serves as a symbol of self-portraiture but also as a device of fragmentation, reflecting parts of the body but not the whole. For '14 Rooms', curators Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist invited fourteen international artists to each activate a room, exploring the relationship between space, time, and physicality with an artwork whose "material" is the human being.