Shot in Ace Gallery Los Angeles, "Vertical Roll" features Joan Jonas performing a series of actions under her alter-ego Organic Honey, the belly dancer. The video was shot during one of the rehearsals for Jonas' Organic Honey performance, and while it is mostly based off the structure of a vertical roll it does contain some images from Visual Telepathy. "Vertical Roll" provided Joan Jonas a means to explore the disjunction between performance and a recording of that performance. She places a heavy emphasis on time, and both physical and mental space in her explanation of the work. - read more -
