I confess it seems more than a
touch unfair that while its primary competitors, Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln, have both been
dogged by questions of historical accuracy, no one seems to care that large portions of Argo —
in particular the last act, featuring skin - of - the - teeth escape after skin - of - the - teeth escape — were made up out of whole cloth.
Some subjects that Joan Jonas has
touched on over her fifty year career (
in no
particular order): nature, her
dog, animism, Japanese Noh theatre, the moon and the sun, insects, masks (metaphorical and literal), ghosts, landscape, Hopi mythology, the female body, the female artist, the nature of presence versus representation, memory, her home
in Cape Breton.