I have been reading an interview between Joan Jonas and Karin Schneider that is an interesting conversation about Jonas's work - talking about her drawing/video relationships that she creates and the function of the mirror to her.
To Jonas using video creates a kind of double space, creating two different time experiences for the viewer.
The word Gestalt was used throughout the interview and not knowing what it meant, I googled it: refers to a 'wholeness'; a perceptual pattern or structure possessing qualities as a wholethat cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts. These pictures make that last statement make sense visually.
Happening (event, performance, action)
The happening is an evolving action carried out within a defined environment. Notwithstanding a general direction established in advance, there remains a large margin for improvisation while it is in progress, and the reactions of the spectators may in turn influence the action under way.
In the course of the twentieth century, painting and sculpture gradually went beyond their respective two- and three-dimensional limits to gradually take the form of assemblages. These in turn were to evolve into environments and then, with the introduction of live participants, into happenings. Indeed, these events grew out of the search for more direct relations between artist and public, or between art and life, and the rejection of the power of the market over art.
(Taken from http://www.newmedia-art.info/cgi-bin/show-oeu.asp?ID=ML000002&lg=GBR)
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