"In 1976, Joan Jonas first initiated her video performance 'Mirage' in the screening room of the Anthology Film Archives in New York, on several nights over the course of a few weeks. In it, Jonas captured a loop of documentary and found footage, sculptural elements, projections of herself drawing with chalk as well as simple live performative actions, like stepping through a small wooden hoop."
"The 23rd edition of Loop Festival, curated by Filipa Ramos and titled 'Miratges Mirages,' takes inspiration from Jonas' work and speaks to the mirage as an illusory but eminently desirable, fleeting force through a carefully selected, city-wide exhibition of artists' cinema. The festival runs alongside the Loop Fair, which specializes in video art and takes place in Barcelona's Almanac hotel, with each participating gallery showing a video artwork projected in one of the rooms, which visitors can watch from the comfort of the hotel beds."
Joan Jonas initiated the video performance 'Mirage' in 1976, combining documentary and found footage, sculptural elements, projections of drawing, and simple live actions to explore transformation. The work juxtaposed childlike acts of drawing and erasing with imagery of environmental change, including storms and volcanic eruptions, to evoke the unattainable quality of a mirage. The 23rd Loop Festival, titled 'Miratges Mirages' and curated by Filipa Ramos, invoked that mirage concept to stage a city-wide program of artists' cinema across institutions and unexpected locales. The festival ran alongside the Loop Fair, which presented video works in hotel rooms for casual and intentional audiences.
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