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MIRROR

The Audience Is Not Outside: Joan Jonas 
by Xi Jin

How can a medium change where we stand? Through Joan Jonas’s use of mirrors, screens, and projection, this essay explores how media reshape the relationship between audience, performer, and space—and what this might reveal about architecture.


Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece (2010), Guggenheim Museum
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