Jolanda Jansen

Performance_ 12 Interpersonal Distance - Residency Unlimited NY ____



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Performance_ 12 Interpersonal Distance

Tuesday Feb 12, 2013, from 6.30 to 8pm.
Free and open to the public.
Location: Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street (green door),
Brooklyn, NY 11231
directions here

RU EVENT: INTERPERSONAL DISTANCE, a performance by Jolanda Jansen.

Please join us for Interpersonal Distance, a new performance by Dutch artist Jolanda Jansen.
In her carefully constructed but often wild performances, Jolanda submits her body to various
transformations, or rather deformations, to engage with the possibility of self-reinvention and
release from cultural determinations. Her work often stages the passage from a sexualized
female body to an animal-like corporeality as a way of challenging constraining definitions
of self and of femininity. And it is not only her own controlled body that the artist hopes to
disorganize and transform; her performances also intend to provoke viewers out of their routine
bodily behaviors. To do so, she often uses the camera as a tool to invade the viewer’s personal
space and engage with issues of voyeurism and gender power relations.

This performance at Residency Unlimited is inspired by a scientific study that explored the
correlations between interpersonal distancing behaviour and a variety of factors including gender
and personality traits. It is conceived as a sort of experiment in group behavior in three parts with
live video feedback.

Her residency is supported by the Mondriaan Fund.