Joan Jonas "Volcano Saga"

‘World premiere of a thirty minute videotape which Joan Jonas recently completed in connection with her performance Volcano Saga, a project initiated by De Appel together with Jonas in 1985. The extensive tapes which she made in Iceland formed part of the performance at that time. Volcano Saga is based on the Icelandic ‘Laxdaela Saga’. Jonas’s treatment of this mythological tale was inspired by the portentous dreams of its heroine Gudrun, who symbolises a matriarchal society.’ (‘Joan Jonas’, Newsletter De Appel, 4 (1989) 3.)