As traditional, a pair of curators—Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, in this case—have been appointed to provide a broad image of American art as it stands right now. Their focus is the notion of actuality itself, a notoriously sticky topic in a time when the stress is on to inform the truth and be genuine. There are arguably few better-known video artists on the earth than Joan Jonas, whose tapes from the ’60s and ’70s are considered essential works about the relationship between one’s body and the environment, often with a feminist undercurrent. Having represented the United States at the …
As traditional, a pair of curators—Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, in this case—have been appointed to provide a broad image of American art as it stands right now. Their focus is the notion of actuality itself, a notoriously sticky topic in a time when the stress is on to inform the truth and be genuine. There are arguably few better-known video artists on the earth than Joan Jonas, whose tapes from the ’60s and ’70s are considered essential works about the relationship between one’s body and the environment, often with a feminist undercurrent. Having represented the United States at the …