Moving Off the Land II

Joan Jonas’s mesmerizing performance Moving Off the Land pays tribute to the ocean and its creatures, biodiversity, and delicate ecology. The performance takes place on the occasion of Jonas’s exhibition “Moving Off the Land II”, the inaugural project at Ocean Space, curated by Stefanie Hessler. On this exceptional occasion, Jonas is joined onstage by the celebrated composer, improviser, and electronic musician Ikue Mori and the performer Francesco Migliaccio. Combining movement, live drawing, readings, and video projection, Moving Off the Land draws on literary and mythological sources as well as multiple layers of gestures and brings together numerous aquatic beings, both real and imaginary.