Please join us tonight at 7PM for the U.S. launch of Joan Jonas: Moving off the Land. On the occasion of the launch, Jonas will be joined in conversation by biologist and writer Jonathan Balcombe, TBA21–Academy Director Markus Reymann and SI Director Stefanie Hessler. Jonas’s new publication closely follows the development of her evolving work, Moving Off the Land, from its first iteration as a lecture-demonstration at Vasco da Gama Square in Kochi, India in 2016, to the exhibition and performance that inaugurated TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space in Venice in 2019. Grounded in three years of research into the significance of the ocean as a totemic spiritual and cultural reference throughout history, Jonas conjured an aquatic universe of mythological and real figures, where stories of beauty and ecological urgency emerge. The complete script for the performance, along with the artist’s annotations of it, form the core of the book, accompanied by images of Jonas’s live performance. Edited by Ute Meta Bauer, the illustrated 272-page publication includes a selection of research materials that Jonas collected over many years and an extensive conversation between Jonas, Bauer, and Hessler that unpacks the genesis of the project and how the artist explores environmental concerns while highlighting the intelligence, marvel, and beauty of the nonhuman creatures that cohabit our world. Please RSVP to [email protected]. Please note that SI event operate at a limited capacity and an RSVP does not guarantee admission. Entry is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Image: Joan Jonas, Moving Off the Land, 2019. Performance at Ocean Space, Venice, 2019. Photo: Moira Ricci. @broadcove @tba21academy @tba_21 @jonathan.balcombe #swissinstitute #joanjonas #movingofftheland Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land Edited by Ute Meta Bauer With a conversation between Joan Jonas, Ute Meta Bauer and Stefanie Hessler. Forewords by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and Markus Reymann Design by Mono.Studio, Berlin 17 x 24 cm, 272 pages Published by TBA21–Academy and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König and distributed in the US by Artbook & D.A.P 40 USD