Joan Jonas (*1936 in New York, lives in New York) began experimenting with multimedia performances and video in the late 1960s. Today, she is considered one of the most influential pioneers of these art forms. The medium of video allowed Jonas to adapt her exploration of sculpture, dance, and theater into a time-based format and to explore aspects of performance art that had previously been impossible to realize. Her work is characterized by a fundamental interest in cultural rites, as well as dynamic processes of mirroring, shifting, and redefining genre and time.