Joan Does Dynasty
35:00 | 1986
Conceived/Written/Produced/ Performed by Joan Braderman
Co-directed/Co-edited by Manuel De Landa
Creating the "post-scratch" chroma-key “text and effects” style she has made famous, the artist inserts her body into the world of the primetime soap opera, "Dynasty," where she does her now classic performance, embodying the love/hate relationships so many of us experience with the characters and values of TV, Braderman "performs" feminist and reception theory, turning the reigning ideas of her period into video vernacular.
According to reviews in publications such as “The Independent,” “The Guardian of London,” and “Contemporanea,” "few have matched the technique, bravery and humor" ** of JOAN DOES DYNASTY, which is "one of the two most impressive tapes in the video section [of 1987 Whitney Bienniel]" "probably the most widely distributed feminist video ever made.” It was ranked #4 in London Video Arts' Top Ten Video Rental List.
Selected Shows and Awards
Premiere:
Paper Tiger Television, NYC
1987 Whitney Biennial, 1987
Edinburgh Film Festival 1987
Arts for Television at MOCA
Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art
NYC
The Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
Institutes of Contemporary Art
London & Boston
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
Oviedo y Ayunta de Sevilla
Spain
Australian Video Festival
American Film Institute - National Video Festival
Cinemama Festival
Montreal
Women and Representation Festival
Five College Consortium, Amherst, MA
Festival of Films by Women
Cinematrix
New American Makers
San Francisco, CA
Hallwalls
Rochester, NY
Boston Film and Video Foundation
New York Institute for the Humanities
Cornell Cinema
Harvard University
Brown University
Syracuse University
University of Wisconsin
"In Search of Media Monster"
Cleveland State Art Gallery
Port Washington Public Library
"Disarming Genres"
Artists Space, NYC
and many other galleries, universities and museums, internationally including a Russian TV broadcast, 1994.
JDD is in a number of permanent collections in the U.S. (Univ. of Cal.; Museum of Modern Art, Donnell Library, etc.) and at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
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