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CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery presented an another new work by Joan Jonas, following to her previous new projects in last 3 years at CCA.

Joan Jonas is one of the first artists to integrate performance, video and the visual arts, and the influence can still be traced in various genre. She continues to develop her work often inspired by the other cultures.

KITES: uses over time

Kites soaring like birds or used to judge distance, to signal, to carry fire, to banish evil, for communication, to carry a child, to carry an adult, to bear a message, for psychological warfare, to lift a thermometer, to collect electricity, to pull a carriage, to measure wind speed, to transport torpedoes, to send orders over enemy lines, to carry a camera, to record the effects of an earthquake, as a model plane, as moving target as fighting kites, flying for pleasure, for children.
materials: bamboo paper string paint
I first chose six different paper and bamboo handmade forms of Japanese kites in two sizes, painted each with food coloring either red, blue yellow or green with some purple, brown, or black, and then pasted paper cut out shapes in same colors based on images of starfish, birds and abstract landscapes on each kite – later strings for flying are attached. The kites are hung in partly random formation from the ceiling and backlit with paper forms emphasizing translucent fragility. I think of this as a setting for a play about presences, whisperings, startling reminders, sounds of wind in the eaves of a shelter, and an invisible force of wind to complete the picture.

Joan Jonas stayed at CCA Kitakyushu as a professor of Research Program from January 10th to February 3rd, 2014.

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