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.
“JOAN DOES DYNASTY has become the classic feminist performance video of the era.“ - Dee Dee Halleck
Selected Shows and Awards
Premiere:
Paper Tiger Television, NYC
Whitney Biennial, 1987
Edinburgh Film Festival 1987
"Arts for Television"
Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
The Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Institutes of Contemporary Art
London & Boston
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
Oviedo y Ayunta
Sevilla, Spain
Australian Video Festival
National Video Festival
American Film Institute
Los Angeles, CA
Cinemama Festival
Montréal, Québec
Women and Representation Festival
Five College Consortium
Amherst, MA
Festival of Films by Women
Cinematrix
Montréal, Québec
New American Makers
San Francisco, CA
Hallwalls
Rochester, NY
"In Search of Media Monster"
Cleveland State Art Gallery
"Disarming Genres"
Artists Space
New York, NY
Boston Film and Video Foundation
New York Institute for the Humanities
Cornell Cinema
Harvard University
Brown University
Syracuse University
University of Wisconsin
Port Washington Public Library
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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