Joan Jonas

She began her career in New York City as a sculptor. Jonas' projects and experiments provided the foundation on which much video performance art would be based.  Jonas’ works were first performed in the 1960s and '70s for some of the most influential artists of her generation, including Richard Serra,Robert Smithson, Dan Graham and Laurie Anderson. Jonas filmed performers stiffly passing through the field of view against a wind that lent the choreography a psychological mystique.