Moving Off the Land closely follows the process of the eminent artist Joan Jonas in developing the performance Moving Off the Land (2016–20). This body of work encompasses three years of research into the significance of the ocean throughout history as a totemic spiritual and cultural reference. Jonas conjures an aquatic universe of mythological and real figures, where new stories of sheer beauty and ecological urgency emerge. The complete script for the performance, along with the artist’s annotations of it, are the core of the book, accompanied by mesmerizing images of Jonas’s live performances. Edited by Ute Meta Bauer, curator of Jonas’s acclaimed presentation in the US Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, this lavishly illustrated 272-page publication includes a rich selection of research materials that Jonas collected over many years, a complete chronology of the project’s history, and an extensive conversation between Jonas, Bauer, and curator Stefanie Hessler that unpacks the genesis of the project and how the artist explores environmental concerns while highlighting the intelligence, marvel, and beauty of the nonhuman creatures that cohabit our world. The introductions by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza and by Markus Reymann embed the project in the research practice of TBA21 and TBA21–Academy. Co-published by TBA21–Academy and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.