{"data":{"id":"16018","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":16018,"topgoose_id":11754,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":16018,"title":"Mirage","display_artist_text":"Joan Jonas","display_date":"1976/2001","accession_number":"2002.158","dimensions":"Dimensions variable","medium":"16mm film and three-channel video installation, black-and-white, sound and silent, 31 min., 30 min., 14 min., and 12 min. looped","department":"collection","classification":"Installations","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Film and Video Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoan Jonas, \u003cem\u003eMirage\u003c/em\u003e, 1976/2001. 16mm film and three-channel video installation, black-and-white, sound and silent, 31 min., 30 min., 14 min., and 12 min. looped, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Film and Video Committee 2002.158. © Joan Jonas. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMirage \u003c/i\u003ewas designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives in New York's SoHo neighborhood, where Joan Jonas first performed the piece on several nights over a few weeks in 1976, for an audience of her friends: local artists, musicians, and dancers. In the first performances, Jonas projected images of herself drawing and erasing her marks on a chalkboard—some appropriated from her past works—as well as a five-minute documentary loop of volcanoes erupting and a film of a television turned on its side. She also stepped through a small wooden hoop and completed other live actions. \u003ci\u003eMirage\u003c/i\u003e was the last of a series of black and white video performances completed by Jonas; she would subsequently adopt color technologies. In 2001, Jonas made a new version of \u003ci\u003eMirage\u003c/i\u003e, consisting of a silent, approximately thirty-minute loop which, in the artist’s words, “is a combination of old performances, more chalk drawings and footage shot off the television at that time.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Dark gallery room with two large projected screens showing diagrams and a bench with small TV.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:54:16.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:40.257-05:00","images":[{"id":104156,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/16018/2002_158_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"5523","type":"artist"}]}}}}