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Jesse Jones

EVENT LOCATION:
Paul O'Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library
5440 Spring Garden Rd, Halifax

EVENT DATE & TIME
November 25, 2025 7:00 pm

Image of Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon by Jesse Jones

Film, Performance & Sculpture

The talk will focus on the role of the “Witch” archetype in Jesse Jones’s work and how it has evolved in recent years. Taking the cue from the work of Silvia Federici and her book, Caliban and the Witch, to more recent iterations of the more than human witch of nature in Jesse Jones’s recent work for the Singapore Biennale. The talk will explore feminism in Jones’s work as a “mythopoesis” and mode of becoming from Tremble Tremble (2017) to recent studio practice.

 

This talk is presented as part of NSCAD’s Visiting Artist program, supported by the Daglish Family Foundation Visiting Artist Fund.

 

Learn more about Jesse’s work:

Artist Jesses Jones head and shoulders portrait

About the Artist

Jesse Jones is a Dublin-based artist. Using a form of expanded cinema she explores magical counter-narratives drawn from suppressed archetypes and narrative alterity through immersive film installation. Jones’ practice is multi-platform, working in film, performance and sculpture through speculative feminisms and Myth. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2017 with the project ” Tremble Tremble” whose title is inspired by the 1970s Italian wages for housework movement, during which women chanted “Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate! (Tremble, tremble, the witches have returned!)”. Her most recent work: Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon”, consisted of a 16mm film and sculpture installation made in response to Gentileschi’s masterpiece “Self-portrait as St Catherine of Alexandria” (1616). She teaches on Sherkin Island, West Cork for TU Dublin and is an elected member of Aosdana.
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