tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185501544215524202017-05-09T14:58:57.041-07:00LINDA MARY MONTANOLINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.comBlogger663125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-65911494711211515112017-05-09T14:58:00.004-07:002017-05-09T14:58:57.051-07:00LAUGHATHON/CRYATHON: The Saga of Now; by Linda Mary Montano and Jim Barbaro<br /><b><i><u><span style="background-color: orange;">LAUGHATHON/CRYATHON: The Saga of Now</span></u></i></b><span style="background-color: orange;">; by Linda Mary Montano and Jim Barbaro</span><br /><br />Please send us 30 seconds to 3 minutes of laughing, crying or both from your iphone. Musician and sound engineer Jim Barbaro and I will edit all of your laughs, cries and our additional sounds into a one hour recording titled: <i>LAUGHATHON/CRYATHON: The Saga of Now</i>. By sending your sounds of laughing and/or crying to us, you are also giving us permission to use your sounds in the final recording. Your name will appear on acknowledgements. Thank you for laughing and crying. Art is good medicine.<br /><br /><b>Send your sounds to</b>: natural@jimbarbaro.com<br />Linda Mary Montano and Jim Barbaro, May 2017<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-16236960930409224032017-05-06T10:00:00.002-07:002017-05-06T10:00:54.769-07:00STEVE JOBS LAST WORDS<span style="background-color: orange;">STEVE JOBS LAST WORDS</span><br /><br /><div><div dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><ol><li><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_590d1d13aa04c4c17422651">The last words of Steve Jobs -<br /> I have come to the pinnacle of success in business.<br /> In the eyes of others, my life has been the symbol of success.<br /> However, apart<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> from work, I have little joy. Finally, my wealth is simply a fact to which I am accustomed.<br /> At this time, lying on the hospital bed and remembering all my life, I realize that all the accolades and riches of which I was once so proud, have become insignificant with my imminent death.<br /> In the dark, when I look at green lights, of the equipment for artificial respiration and feel the buzz of their mechanical sounds, I can feel the breath of my approaching death looming over me.<br /> Only now do I understand that once you accumulate enough money for the rest of your life, you have to pursue objectives that are not related to wealth.<br /> It should be something more important:<br /> For example, stories of love, art, dreams of my childhood.<br /> No, stop pursuing wealth, it can only make a person into a twisted being, just like me.<br /> God has made us one way, we can feel the love in the heart of each of us, and not illusions built by fame or money, like I made in my life, I cannot take them with me.<br /> I can only take with me the memories that were strengthened by love.<br /> This is the true wealth that will follow you; will accompany you, he will give strength and light to go ahead.<br /> Love can travel thousands of miles and so life has no limits. Move to where you want to go. Strive to reach the goals you want to achieve. Everything is in your heart and in your hands.<br /> What is the world's most expensive bed? The hospital bed.<br /> You, if you have money, you can hire someone to drive your car, but you cannot hire someone to take your illness that is killing you.<br /> Material things lost can be found. But one thing you can never find when you lose: life.<br /> Whatever stage of life where we are right now, at the end we will have to face the day when the curtain falls.<br /> Please treasure your family love, love for your spouse, love for your friends...<br /> Treat everyone well and stay friendly with your neighbours.</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_hide"><span class="text_exposed_link"><a class="see_more_link" href="https://www.facebook.com/linda.m.montano#"><span class="see_more_link_inner">See More</span></a></span></span></div></li></ol><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-7937091927623732122017-05-05T13:51:00.003-07:002017-05-05T13:52:57.825-07:00LINDA MARY MONTANO: 5 DEATH TAPES: VIDEO DATA BANK<span style="background-color: orange;">LINDA MARY MONTANO: 5 DEATH TAPES: VIDEO DATA BANK</span><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.vdb.org/titles/linda-montano-videoworks-volume-1" id="LPlnk1468" previewinformation="1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.vdb.org/titles/linda-montano-videoworks-volume-1</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.vdb.org/titles/linda-montano-videoworks-volume-1" id="LPUrlAnchor_14939282158350.1413163957058754" previewinformation="2" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Linda Montano Videoworks: Volume 1 | Video Data Bank</a><br /><div id="LPMetadata_14939282158360.4849445648257755" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">www.vdb.org</div><div id="LPDescription_14939282158370.449605284252657" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">VDB is proud to present Linda Montano Videoworks: Volume 1. Originally trained as a sculptor, Linda Montano began using video in the 1970s. She is a seminal figure in ...</div><b></b></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-59496801431318524952017-05-05T13:48:00.001-07:002017-05-05T13:48:40.269-07:00LINDA MARY MONTANO STATEMENT RESPONSE: FOR KATY DEEPWELL/NPARADOXA<br /><div style="color: black;"><hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;" tabindex="-1" /> <div dir="ltr" id="divRplyFwdMsg"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Katy Deepwell <ktpress btconnect.com=""><br /><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 29, 2017 4:41 AM<br /><b>To:</b> 'linda montano'<br /><b>Subject:</b> RE: Invitation to authors, n.paradoxa: 3 July 2017, London conference </ktpress></span> <div> </div></div><div><div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Dear Linda,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thank you so much for this – it is wonderful. Encouraging and really pertinent to what I am trying to achieve.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">I will see what can be put together – and thank you again for the opportunity potentially to screen the U-tube video.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">There was another contribution by you – which was the interview with Hilary Robinson – that you did.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">I’ve attached it – just to ensure you have it for your own records. No need to add further comments.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lots of love and best wishes,</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Katy Deepwell, </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Editor of <i>n.paradoxa</i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">n.paradoxa</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"> is published by:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">KT press</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">38 Bellot St</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">London</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: orange;">LINDA MARY MONTANO STATEMENT RESPONSE: FOR KATY DEEPWELL/NPARADOXA</span></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span style="background: lime; color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">How did the article/interview/artist project that you published in <i>n.paradoxa</i> represent a moment in your own intellectual history?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">MY article <i>MONEY IS GREEN TOO MANIFESTO</i> was born when I attended OCCUPY WALLSTREET NYC and saw/felt/smelled the result of focusing on $$$$$$$$$$ only to the detriment of inner peace, especially when I read one of the signs: COMPASSION IS THE NEW CURRENCY.</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Being at this demonstration was like being in a war. It was trerrifying and big and momentous. I felt I might get killed.</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></div><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Money had already killed me because I grew up in daily reminders of it's importance. My parents were depression-30's survivors and second generation immigrants--Ireland and Italy...They worked themselves to soul death, almost, and I feared eating because they had to work sooo hard to feed us. </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">BY escaping the stink of money I entered a convent at 19 and didn't last, leaving 2 yeas later going from 135-80 pounds, food and emotional traumas still issues.</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Because my art is my life, and money was/is still a big life-brain toxicity, I wrote about it, made a video about money and still go to therapy about it!!! And I'm 75! You would think, wouldn't you?</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> <span style="background: lime;">Was it the start of an area of work for you or the end of something? </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">My relationship to money will only get better with intense meditation and time and maybe loss of ability to count?</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span style="background: lime; color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Was it a continuation of long-term interests or a one-off?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Not a one-off. Am grateful to </span></strong><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">n.paradoxa</span></b></em><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> for listening to my money "share."</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span style="background: lime; color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> Maybe you have a story or anecdote about reactions to the journal from colleagues? Or something that happened as a result of publication?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">n.paradoxa</span></b></em><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> and England aer always held with HIGH ESTEEM In America and with our current leader DT in "charge" we wonder why we ever left your shores!!!!</span></strong><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div></div></div></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-34649596500312584732017-05-05T13:40:00.001-07:002017-05-05T13:40:38.860-07:00I SLEPT WITH LINDA MONTANO: PAUL COUILLARD<span style="background-color: orange;">I Slept with Linda Montano<br /> Paul Couillard [1]</span><br /> PC: Given your history in performance, I wanted to start by asking whether you see a distinction between performance or art and life?<br /><br /> Linda Montano: Until I wrote a recipe that indicated that every minute was performance, there was a distinction. In 1984 I appropriated all time as performance time or art, meaning every minute of my life was an opportunity for that kind of higher--not higher--but that kind of consciousness, a kind of awareness or--sacredness is a word that is laden--but that kind of sacredness. Before 1984 I made attempts, but they were for a week or a month or for shorter periods of time. In '84 I designed it so that the rest of my life will be in a work of art.<br /><br /> PC: So, everything you do is art because you've consciously identified it as that?<br /><br /> LM: Yes.<br /><br /> PC: Are there other things wrapped up in that, like a sense of discipline or a certain kind of awareness you try to bring to things?<br /><br /> LM: It's almost like... There's a massage form called Reiki, and in Reiki, there's a little bit of study, maybe a weekend workshop and three levels. Then there's this so-called initiation, and it's really an initiation into nothingness. It's so simple; it's just a laying on of hands. It's not as if it's a complicated massage form. And for me it was just a matter of consciously setting up the parameters that allowed me to incorporate, appropriate, grab all time as art.<br /><br /> PC: I was wondering about discipline.<br /><br /> LM: In the beginning it was about discipline. I had to do this, this, this and this for numbers of hours and days and weeks and months. Then I found that the overall intentionality worked to incorporate my needs, and the disciplines were really my own ego struggling, pushing. So when I lightened up and stopped pushing so much and creating boundaries and formulas, the permission to live in the state of art loosened me up. I started making more things that looked like traditional art because I was free. Before, it was always this sort of guilt of not being in the studio, not producing enough, not working -- which comes out of an art school training or a western model of abundance and consumerism. How can you say you're something if there's no product? When I took that away, I actually started producing, which is always an interesting kind of contrast. But given my philosophy, there's no need for production, because I am in the state of art, so to speak, at all times.<br /><br /> PC: Why was it important for you to identify what you were doing as art?<br /><br /> LM: Art gave me the same kinds of pleasures and aesthetic ecstasy as the Church used to give me. And because a woman is denied priesthood in Roman Catholicism, I knew instinctively that I would never be able to be a ritual-maker.<br /><br /> PC: Do you make distinctions? For example, when I contacted you about TIME TIME TIME,[1] I told you I was looking at durational performance and I wanted to present a series of pieces that were at least 12 hours long. You could have said, "well, I'm doing that right now" or "I'll come to Toronto and just be Linda Montano", but instead you organized a specific event with an audience component to it that could be published or announced. Is there a distinction to be made between performing a piece called Appreciating the Chakras and being in your kitchen making dinner?<br /><br /> LM: Sometimes you eat chocolate cake with raspberries on it, and sometimes you have a rice cake. Doing a performance like Appreciating the Chakras is the chocolate cake with raspberry sauce. It's a luxury, not necessary, but certainly something fun that I am still interested in. I see it as a night out.<br /><br /> PC: In calling everything you do art, and thinking of what you do as being an artist, do you think an artist necessarily has an audience? Is there a relationship between artist and audience?<br /><br /> LM: I think it's changing with computers and websites and so on. It's becoming a virtual audience -- a non-visible, non-visual, non-physical audience. Then there's the audience of rumor, the audience of legend and gossip--"oh isn't that the person that, you know..." being known for one piece. There is a hunger now for community, for bodily closeness, for performance. But there's also a plethora of taste. Things have gotten so specific to the person, that the people who will come to see a particular piece are drawn chemically by the taste of that person. The flavor of the piece coincides with the flavor of the audience members. I think there are a lot of different levels of audience, unless it's a person or a piece that has such a following or such a need to be seen. Other than that, I think that as performance artists we draw the audience with the taste that corresponds with ours.<br /><br /> PC: In an interview you did before the Toronto show, you mentioned that one of the aspects of maturing as artists -- I wasn't sure whether you meant specifically in performance art or just for yourself as an individual -- was accepting or recognizing that not all audiences are going to love what you do, or have to like what you do.<br /><br /> LM: I think that's an important lesson to learn, not getting attached to numbers of people in the audience, not getting attached to being loved, so that you can really do the work for the right motivation. Hopefully the timing of the work is right. I really think a lot of it is about the presenter. If the presenter is coming from the right place and is well loved in the community and does a good job of making the artist comfortable, the audience can feel that and they respond. I think it's a real collaboration, because you can do something in the right place with the wrong kind of treatment or atmosphere, and it's not a good time for anyone. Sometimes it's not the artist so much that's drawing the crowd, but the presenter.<br /><br /> PC: When you do a piece, what are you hoping the audience will get? Or does that matter?<br /><br /> LM: Community -- that they'll have a place where they can wash their subconscious of ideas or fears or taboos, and a place where they can touch a kind of magical sacredness, have a spiritual high. Moving through matter and the dirt and detritus of matter as a jumping-off place to this ecstasy.<br /><br /> PC: Do you have any thoughts about the element of time in your work? I chose you for TIME TIME TIME because I was familiar with the fact that you had done a seven-year project of exploring the chakras, where every moment of every day for quite a substantial length of time was devoted to or charged with the intent of the particular project you were working on.<br /><br /> LM: Working with time allows for a timelessness. You almost have to grab time to go out of time. Focus and concentration and discipline and spaciousness all happen at the same time when you work with endurance and time. It inhibits scatteredness. It inhibits shallowness. It helps us to go to places that change brain waves, literally. If something's done for a long period of time, then brain chemistry changes. All of those things interest me.<br /><br /> PC: I was very intrigued by the way you chose to structure what we called the 'piece' Appreciating the Chakras. Essentially, there were two parts. The first part of 3 1/2 hours was a soundscape that people could enter or leave as they wished, just soaking in the energy of it. The second part required a different level of commitment on the part of the people who were involved. They were no longer participating spectators; they were being what they were being. You asked us, in a sense, to sleep together.<br /><br /> LM: "I've slept with Linda Montano."<br /><br /> PC: (Laughing) I'll bet you have! In the morning, when we were ending the performance, one of the things you spoke about was that there was a sense of community created in our being together, just in doing a simple action together like sleeping. But people had to commit to be there for that 7-hour period and not leave in the middle, whereas the first part was set up so that anyone could come and go.<br /><br /> LM: A lot of that was just practical safety, in terms of doors opening and closing, people coming in, and protecting the space. Because people were sleeping, the space had to be different, so the parameters were different. But time is energy. We are energy. And energy needs a lot of attention. If we're busy, if there's a divorce from energy, then it’s like not being nurtured, not getting enough food. All of these actions are vehicles. They're designed to produce the effect of feeling aliveness and energy -- and maybe, if there is such a thing, a chemical shift in the brain where it's touching bliss or sacredness.<br /><br /> PC: Is it fair to say that what's involved is a commitment to acknowledging and working with the particular energy of time?<br /><br /> LM: When you translate time, the next word you get after time is death -- because time is so mysterious and it's all about the race against time, or time out, or time is over, or time is up, etc. Time is a real piece of the puzzle that nature holds and has control of. When artists play with time, they're playing with God's toy, nature's toy. It wasn't designed for us to play with, but artists never play with anything that isn't sacred. Or, it's the artist's prerogative to go into that playground. Time brings up issues of dying and of death. And of impermanence and of change and of flux and of loss. "Time marches on." "I don't have enough time for that." It seems to dog us and nip at our heels and run after us. We don't have enough of it, but when the focus changes, when the artist uses time as a material -- a clay to mold -- the artist can use that material to reach timelessness -- no-time. And no-time is bliss or ecstasy or energy, pure energy.<br /><br /> [1] Paul Couillard is the director of FADO, an alternative space in Toronto, Canada. This interview took place in conjunction with a festival entitled TIME TIME TIME, a twelve month series of durational performances by artists from the US, UK, and Canada curated by Couillard. Montano’s contribution Appreciating the Chakras took place from January 30-31 in the Canadia dell’Arte Theater Troupe Studio Space. The title, I Slept With Linda Montano, refers to the 7- hour endurance, Chakra Sleepover/Workshop, Montano offered as part of the event. The unedited interview can be found at <a href="http://www.performanceart.ca/" id="LPlnk711490" previewremoved="true"> http://www.performanceart.ca/</a>.<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-64534785104679173812017-05-05T13:35:00.004-07:002017-05-05T13:35:59.923-07:00MOTHER TERESA BIO<div style="color: black;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: orange;">BIO/MOTHER TERESA</span> </div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;">I was raised orthodox Catholic and this informed my mind, my art and my life. As a result of this early spiritual training I lived two years in a convent, years in an ashram, years in a Zen monastery and years making transformative art of my daily life, my illnesses, my traumas, my hopes and fears. Having performed "creative schizophrenia" by morphing myself into different personas since 1975, (see<i> MASKS </i>on You Tube), I began performing as "real" people about 15 years ago, starting with Bob Dylan, Paul McMahon and also as Mother Teresa. The Mother Teresa doppelganger performance was born as a result of my chronic illness called Cervical Dystonia. It makes me tremor, scrunch up, spasm and twist with pain. One day I was doing all of that and my inner voice said, "I feel just like Mother Teresa!!!" So of course, having designed the MY ART IS MY LIFE manifesto back in 1969, I became her, as art, every chance I had and for her 100th birthday I performed as her in protest at the Empire State Building because they would not turn on the lights to blue and white to honor Mother Teresa but they did turn the lights on for Sponge Bob.Yellow of course.</div><div style="color: black;">At the performance, Catholic and non-Catholic visitors/protesters came to me for "blessings" and the ecstasy of incorporating her holiness into ME and sharing that faux-holiness with the Catholics at the ESB was both overwhelming and radically questioning of the theological politics of the church which does not allow for womenpriests let alone performance art recreations of Saints! I am left wanting to be her in secret, everyday, in the performance of everyday non-art.</div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;">Mark Shaw filmed the event and my four Guardians: <span>Andrea Dominguez, Miss Toni Silver, Zhenesse Heineman and Leah Aron kept me safe and authoritatively unharmed as seen in the video <i>LINDA MARY MONTANO CELEBRATES MOTHER TERESA'S 100TH BIRTHDAY</i>, You Tube.</span></div><div style="color: black;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span>www.lindamontano.com</span></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-90873412268361029172017-05-05T13:29:00.003-07:002017-05-05T13:29:45.002-07:00LIST OF PEOPLE NOT IN THE BOOK: PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TALKING IN THE 80'S: NOW IN FLAES LIBRARY, ARCHIVE OF LINDA MARY MONTANO<hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;" tabindex="-1" /> <br /><div dir="ltr" id="divRplyFwdMsg"><div> </div></div><div><div dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="background-color: orange; color: black;">LIST OF PEOPLE NOT IN THE BOOK: PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TALKING IN THE 80'S: NOW IN FLAES LIBRARY, ARCHIVE OF LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></b><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /><b><i><u>FOOD</u></i></b><u> </u>(MAYBE)<br />FRANK SCHIFREEN<br />ELIZABETH CROSS<br />YUSHIN<br />CYNTHIA SINCLAIR<br />BILL GORDH<br />JACQUES HALBERT<br />TAKAHESHI KOSUGI<br />LINDA MONTANO<br />MILDRED MONTANO<br />BARBARA SMITH<br /><br /><b><i><u>SEX</u></i></b><br />KATHY ACKER<br />BARBARA SMITH<br />LUTZ BACKER<br />JUDITH BARRY<br />MARGARET FABRIZIO<br />MELVIN FRELICHER<br />BILL HARDING<br />TOM JARIMBA<br />SUSAN KLECKNER<br />ANNA KOSTER<br />TONY LABAT<br />SYLVIA NAKKACH<br />AVIVVVA RAHMANI<br /><br /><b><i><u>MONEY/FAME</u></i></b><br />ELIZABETH CROSS<br />SUSANNAH DAIKEN<br />JAIME DAVIDOVICH<br />NORMA JEAN DEAK<br />COCO GORDON<br />SPALDING GRAY<br />JEFFERY GREENBERG<br />JON HENDRICKS<br />OAUL KOS<br />PHIL NIBLOCK<br />MICHAEL OSTERHOUT<br />LIL PICARD<br />MARK RENNIE<br />TERRY SULLIVAN<br />BETH ANN SWARTZ<br />MIERLE UKELES<br /><br /><b><i><u>RITUAL/DEATH</u></i></b><br />BARRY BRYANT<br />MOLLY DAVIES<br />MARY BETH EDELSON<br />CLAIRE FERGUSON<br />ALLYSON GRAY<br />SALLY JACQUES<br />LISA LYON<br />MASA NOSCAN<br />TONY MAY<br />DOMINIQUE MAZEAUD<br />LINDA MUSSMAN/CLAUDIA BRUCE<br />SUSANNA OISHI<br />MICHAEL PEPPE<br />AYSHA QUINN & JOHN STURGEON<br />PAUL RYAN<br />FRANK SHIFREEN<br />ANDY SOMA<br />CHARLES STEIN/GEORGE QUASHA<br />VICKI STERN<br />WINSTON TONG<br />YOSHI WADA<br />RON WALLACE<br />JULIE WINTER<br />NINA WISE<br /><br /><br /><br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-44563025394489342232017-04-20T06:18:00.001-07:002017-04-20T06:18:57.886-07:00LIGHT IS IN THE HOUSE; EASTER IN A SMALL CHURCH, 2017<span style="background-color: orange;">LIGHT IS IN THE HOUSE: EASTER IN THE CHURCH WITH THE GODDESS. </span><br /><span style="background-color: orange;">Linda Mary Montano April 2017</span><br /><div><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: orange;"><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>"Theories connecting </i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Ē</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>ostre with records of Germanic </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_customs" target="_blank" title="Easter customs"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Easter customs</i></span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>, including </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare#Folklore_and_mythology" target="_blank" title="Hare"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>hares</i></span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i> and </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg" target="_blank" title="Easter egg"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>eggs</i></span></a><span><span style="color: black;"><i>, </i></span><i>have been proposed. Particularly prior to the discovery of the matronae Austriahenae</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i> and further developments in </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_studies" target="_blank" title="Indo-European studies"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Indo-European studies</i></span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>, debate has occurred among some scholars about whether or not the goddess was an invention of Bede. </i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Ē</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>ostre and Ostara are sometimes referenced in modern popular culture and are venerated in some forms of </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathenry_(new_religious_movement)" target="_blank" title="Heathenry (new religious movement)"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Germanic Neopaganism</i></span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>. " Wikipedia</i></span></div><div><div style="color: black;"><div><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><div class="x_x_toc" id="x_x_toc"><div class="x_x_toctitle" id="x_x_toctitle"><h2><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i></i><br /></span></h2><b> </b><span class="x_x_toctoggle"><b> </b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>LIGHT IS IN THE HOUSE, Linda Mary Montano, April 2017</b></span></span></div></div><br /><br /><sup><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></sup><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span> <sup><i></i><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></sup><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span> <sup><i></i><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></sup><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span> <sup></sup><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span> <div><span><i>" Ostara, Eástre</i></span><span><i> seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the Christian's God. Bonfires</i></span><span><i> were lighted at Easter and according to popular belief of long standing, the moment the sun rises on Easter Sunday morning, he gives three joyful leaps</i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><i>, he dances for joy ... Water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy and healing ... here also heathen notions seems to have grafted themselves on great Christian festivals. Maidens clothed in white, who at Easter, at the season of returning spring, show themselves in clefts of the rock and on mountains, are suggestive of the ancient goddess. " Wikipedia</i></span></div><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span> <br /><span style="color: black;"></span> <i></i><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span> <i></i><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span> <span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1416_1522" role="button" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #0078d7;">Fecundity sat directly in front of me at the pre-Easter's 2 hour celebration in the local Catholic Church.</span></span> Though usually a verboten symbiosis, that is: the chance to be turned <strong>on</strong> and tuned <b>into</b> God, at the same time, I was gifted this waking dream by way of a pagan/non-pagan scenario <b>IN CHURCH</b>. All without my asking. Here is how it happened. I came in all innocence to said Church, preparing to be holy and for a half hour I was that. Holy Girl. I had been sitting still, sitting silent, sitting in listening mode, sitting like a good girl, sitting like a serious Catholic good girl and then the atmosphere electrically changed. Trouble was in the house. I knew it, smelled it, sensed another vibrational frequency as lust itself breezed up the aisle and slid into the seat in front of me. How did I know it was a visit from the goddess of bunny love? Who else has hair swaying in sync-time with a 45 year old peasant body dressed in breezy-vintage but not really vintage clothes; clothes happily shaking with fevered nearness to her love handled flesh. Who else emits sparks of vaporous clouds of pleasure? Who else turns on lights without lamps? Who else perfumes their presence without essential oils? It was the goddess-friend of Mother Mary IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH! A very oy challenge for me!<br /><br /><br /><i></i><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span> <br /><span style="color: black;"></span> <span style="color: black;"><i>" </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Some scholars have linked customs and imagery involving hares to Ēostre and the Norse goddess </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja" target="_blank" title="Freyja"><span style="color: black;"><i>Freyja</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i>. Writing in 1972, John Andrew Boyle cites commentary contained within an etymology dictionary by A. Ernout and </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Meillet" target="_blank" title="Antoine Meillet"><span style="color: black;"><i>A. Meillet</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i>, where the authors write that "Little else [...] is known about [Ēostre], but it has been suggested that her lights, as goddess of the dawn, were carried by hares. And she certainly represented spring </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecundity" target="_blank" title="Fecundity"><span style="color: black;"><i>fecundity</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i>, and love and carnal pleasure that leads to fecundity." Wikipedia</i></span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span> <i></i><br /><br /><br />There she was, sitting directly in front of me. Frozen in appreciation and not inspired to move to an aisle 50 yards away, I had no choice but to endure her mini workshop in Tantra 101 titled: How To Feel Fabulous and Fecund at All Times, Especially in Church; a class she eventually co-taught because after 5 minutes of my enjoying a private visible darshan ( holy visit) with her, a foot shorter husband/partner appeared and as if perpetually pumped by her presence, slid into the seat next to her. OK folks, let the show begin! <br /><i><br /></i><i><br /></i><br /><span style="color: black;"><i>" Sexual desire may be the “single most common sexual event in the lives of men and women”.</i></span><sup class="x_x_reference" id="x_x_cite_ref-Regan.26Atkins2006_1-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_desire#cite_note-Regan.26Atkins2006-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><i>[1]</i></span></a></sup><span style="color: black;"><i> Sexual desire is a </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity" target="_blank" title="Subjectivity"><span style="color: black;"><i>subjective</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i> feeling state that can “be triggered by both internal and external cues, and that may or may not result in overt sexual behavior”.</i></span><sup class="x_x_reference" id="x_x_cite_ref-Becketal1991_3-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_desire#cite_note-Becketal1991-3" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><i>[3]</i></span></a></sup><span style="color: black;"><i> Sexual desire can be aroused through imagination and </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fantasy" target="_blank" title="Sexual fantasy"><span style="color: black;"><i>sexual fantasies</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i>, or perceiving an individual who one finds attractive.</i></span><sup class="x_x_reference" id="x_x_cite_ref-Toates2009_4-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_desire#cite_note-Toates2009-4" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><i>[4]</i></span></a></sup><span style="color: black;"><i> Sexual desire is also created and amplified through </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_tension" target="_blank" title="Sexual tension"><span style="color: black;"><i>sexual tension</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i>, which is caused by sexual desire that has yet to be consummated</i></span><i>. " Wikipedia</i><br /><i></i><br /><br />OK, we were in Church, the Roman Catholic Church, but she couldn't keep her hands, her hair, her big body, her pulsating hips, again her hair, her lips OFF OF HIM. He responded with strongly controlled and unseen signals of ,"I can't wait either," orchestrated by his tightly muscled ass; his ass, a witness to unabashed nights, days and years of thrust, into her largess. This ass and asshole didn't flinch or give signals of response that I could see, because I secretly watched for butt clenches through his tight going to church clean pants. Nothing he did gave away apparent response to her mare-ish need for sex, sex NOW! Egg-banging sex. In fact his nothing was food for her something. His nothing absorbed her over abundance of desire, enough for the two of them. His nothing buttressed her side body slams when the choir sang HALLELUIAH, his nothing became the canvas for her head bangs into his neck, his nothing was a firm gate, allowing her arms to be flung around him time after time and in view of the probably inwardly panting clergy a few feet away. They see everything even though they don't act like they do. Let me assure you, I know about this.<br /><br /><div align="center">" <i>Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_decorating" target="_blank" title="Egg decorating"><span style="color: black;"><i>decorated</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><a class="x_x_mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(biology)" target="_blank" title="Egg (biology)"><span style="color: black;"><i>eggs</i></span></a><i> that are usually used as gifts on the occasion of </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter" target="_blank" title="Easter"><span style="color: black;"><i>Easter</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i> or </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(season)" target="_blank" title="Spring (season)"><span style="color: black;"><i>springtime</i></span></a><i> celebration. As such, Easter eggs are common during the season of </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastertide" target="_blank" title="Eastertide"><span style="color: black;"><i>Eastertide</i></span></a><i> (Easter season). The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs wrapped in colourful</i><span style="color: black;"><i> </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foil_(metal)" target="_blank" title="Foil (metal)"><span style="color: black;"><i>foil</i></span></a><i>, or plastic eggs filled with </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confectionery" target="_blank" title="Confectionery"><span style="color: black;"><i>confectionery</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i> such as </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate" target="_blank" title="Chocolate"><span style="color: black;"><i>chocolate</i></span></a><i>. Although eggs, in general, were a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth,</i><sup class="x_x_reference" id="x_x_cite_ref-fertility_2-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg#cite_note-fertility-2" target="_blank"><i>[2]</i></a></sup><i> in </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" target="_blank" title="Christianity"><span style="color: black;"><i>Christianity</i></span></a><i>, for the celebration of Eastertide, Easter eggs symbolize the </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_tomb" target="_blank" title="Empty tomb"><span style="color: black;"><i>empty tomb</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i> of </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" target="_blank" title="Jesus"><span style="color: black;"><i>Jesus</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i>,</i></span><i> from which Jesus </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" target="_blank" title="Resurrection of Jesus"><span style="color: black;"><i>resurrected</i></span></a><sup class="x_x_reference" id="x_x_cite_ref-Meaning_3-0"><span style="color: black;"><i> " </i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Wikipedia</i></span></sup></div><span style="color: black;"></span> <b></b><i></i><br />My croned face, tempered by age and regret that I was never invited up to/into the altar to co-celebrate knew that this woman in front of me was speaking for all women. Definitely for me! She shouted silently and symbolically into the air that she was a human neon sign signaling, "See here boys? You don't want us on the altar? Well guess what you stinkholed-misogonists, we're here in all our egg laying glory. And we aren't going away. "<br /><i><br /></i><br /><div><i>" In addition, one ancient tradition was the staining of Easter eggs with the colour red "in memory of the </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_of_Christ" target="_blank" title="Blood of Christ"><span style="color: black;"><i>blood of Christ</i></span></a><i>, shed as at that time of his crucifixion."</i><sup class="x_x_reference" id="x_x_cite_ref-Meaning_3-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg#cite_note-Meaning-3" target="_blank"><i>[3]</i></a></sup><i>This custom of the Easter egg can be traced to </i><a class="x_x_mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christians" target="_blank" title="Early Christians"><span style="color: black;"><i>early Christians</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"><i> of </i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia" target="_blank" title="Mesopotamia"><span style="color: black;"><i>Mesopotamia</i></span></a><i> and from there it spread into Russia and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches. This Christian use of eggs may have been influenced by practices in "pre-dynastic period in Egypt, as well as amid the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete".</i><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Wikipedia</i></span></sup></div><div><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></sup></div><div><sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><div>Could something this primal, this for adults only happening, this not for children under 12 performance, this out of context peepshow, this x rated fertility rite happen ever again in this small village Catholic church? </div><div>Stay tuned.</div><div>The Goddess of "upspringing" light is in the house! </div><div>She and Mother Mary are on <b>fire</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div style="color: black;"><div><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="x_x_mw-editsection"><span class="x_x_mw-editsection-bracket"></span></span><br /><i>"Christians generally regard Easter as the most important festival of the ecclesiastical calendar. It is also the oldest feast of the Christian Church, and connected to the Jewish </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover" target="_blank" title="Passover"><span style="color: black;"><i>Passover</i></span></a><i>. Many terms relating to Easter, such as paschal are derived from the Hebrew term for passover. In many non-English speaking countries the feast is called by some derivation of "pasch". The English term, according to the Venerable </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede" target="_blank" title="Bede"><span style="color: black;"><i>Bede</i></span></a><i>, is an Anglo-Saxon form relating to </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre" target="_blank" title="Ēostre"><span style="color: black;"><i>Ēostre</i></span></a><i>, a Teutonic goddess of the rising light of day and spring." Wikipedia</i></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Linda Mary Montano, April 2017</div><b></b></span></sup></div><br /><div class="x_x_toc" id="x_x_toc"><div class="x_x_toctitle" id="x_x_toctitle"></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><div><br /></div><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-11035631797196176702017-04-11T13:05:00.000-07:002017-04-11T13:05:12.297-07:00INTERVIEWS FROM LETTERS FROM LINDA MARY MONTANOINTERVIEWS FROM LETTERS FROM LINDA MARY MONTANO<br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">************************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">God I Love Time: An Interview with Linda Montano </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hilary Robinson </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This interview took place when Montano was invited by Catalyst Arts in Belfast, Northern Ireland to do a performance. Chakraphonics was a duration performed for 3 days, 21-24 September 1999, for 3 hours a day. The purpose of the performance was to connect with her grandfather who was originally from Co. Cork. Below is an excerpt from that interview which was first published in</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 (January 2000) 63-70.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hilary Robinson: In your book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art in Everyday Life</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1981), you photo documented 39 different performances with a few words about “art” and a few words about “life” for each piece. I was very interested in the way in which you had produced that book and, in particular, the way in which your writings set up a parallel between the time of the art piece, the development of your work and its various manifestations, and the changes and shifts in your life. Could we start by talking about how we can now look back through time at time-based work through its documentation? I came to know your own work, for example, through photographs, through writing, through the writings of other people and so on. I haven’t been able to see the majority of your work really because it has been situated in time-based performances, mainly in the USA. I wondered if you had anything to say about that to start with and your interest in time in general? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda Montano: I am waiting for a touring retrospective so all of my work can be seen at once! Any museums interested? I’d have to go back further than 1981 to the source of my interest in time and I think this would address a general feeling around women in structures, women and impositions, women in power and women and disempowerment. What I did unconsciously was to appropriate different structures, time being one of them, in order to empower myself at a very young age. Somehow I knew that time was a pretty powerful vehicle that was held by the patriarchy. In that very, very early explanation of number 1: God the father, number 2: God the Son, number 3: God the Holy Spirit, I knew I was not included and I knew there was no woman included. I knew that I wanted to be a man for obvious reasons. There’s a strange mix, numbers, women, theology and time. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I truly believe that we are the result of early parenting; early institutions and training that form paradigms and become impositions. We are walking replicas of Mom, Dad and Church. I can remember using time as a way to choose to listen to my mother or father or the school - who were saying ‘Linda! You have another fifteen minutes in order to make school.’ And counting, making the ritual of getting up in the morning a time ritual so that I would say ‘twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one’ then it would get down to milliseconds, down to the one thousand and one, one thousand…Getting up in the morning was performative and ritualistic. I chose from an early age to listen to my parents via my own structure as well as knowing from some kind of inner sense that whatever I did I had to document in memory, photos or writing. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fourth element in there was that in order to stay alive and out of the mental hospital and give myself the energy I needed to live, I had to do public actions because there was no sense of me outside the other. There was no sense of me outside my action done. I was meaningless unless I was the other. This translates into a pretty wonderful freedom to perform anytime, anywhere and I always made sure a photographer was there. By working this way, I used my audience as healers until I reached the place where I eventually got enough public attention, courage and validity to turn this around and give attention to my audiences. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR: So, you were/are creating yourself through your work and your performing. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Right. I was excellent at getting attention by speaking a language I had developed because probably there was no verbal language I can remember speaking at home. The language was one of telepathy, we spoke telepathy, and we spoke music. That’s not speaking about music but listening, so a lot of this was heard on just this upper pineal pituitary level; the thyroid, parathyroid, the belly laugh, the heart - these lower chakras were pretty shy. Then you add to that tendency, stories of the saints and the kinds of visually powerful images (the only way to be good was to be crucified or have breasts cut off) and the other ability to time travel at night, looking out of windows; put all of that together and you just can't help translating those images, and levels of institutional, spiritual biography into performance. It’s a great vehicle; it’s a great vehicle. And I say this out of gratitude to my autobiography, not out of victimhood or complaint. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR: I mentioned the publication documenting your works from the 1960s (?) through to the 1980s. I liked in particular that it documents a clear separation and a relationship, between life and art but there was no way that one was going to be confused with the other. There was a definite balance being woven - if that is the right metaphor - between the two. The chronologies of what was developing in your life and in your art seemed to be weaving very much in and out of each other. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Well, one created the other, the other created the other and then created the other, you know. Also I think in looking back it was also a way, it was a reaction to “the only way to do it was via the New York art stable scene” attitude, which posited that you had a rotten life and great art, and never the twain shall meet. What was happening in one’s bathroom had nothing to do with what was happening in one’s gallery. I think women know better because of genetics or the body, the nurture instinct or whatever. Unless we include cooking, unless we include sleeping, we’re not going to get it or be famous! So once I demanded that the studio was over and done with and gone and it was no longer a necessity, it became an easy dance, an easy weave. I would say basically that my art made me and that I used my audience as healers, until I reached a place where we could co-heal. That took time, a lot of “bad” performance and the courage to continue this vulnerable working practice. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just wrote an article, a very nice article on different kinds of audiences at performances, about the different levels of audience, the audience as co-creators, the audience as critic, the audience as voyeur, the audience as healer, the audience as unnecessary, the audience as absolutely necessary, the audience as intervener, the audience as “I would have died if they hadn’t been there”. Of course there are different levels of interaction and the secret, private, personal vow-taking performances can’t be forgotten. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR: Does this put you at odds with, from what I perceive from this side of the Atlantic, that the trend within American (maybe Northern American, in a broader sense) performance which seems to be much more theatrical and which uses time in a much more curtailed form in the work? For example, work in which there is a set stage, and often very text-based, script-based performances. From what I know of your work it seems to be that you want your audience to be much freer to experience the duration of your work with which they feel comfortable. You seem to do durational performances, expanding the time of what might constitute a performance. Is that a tension that you feel with yourself and maybe mainstream art practice in America? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Performance is already now commodified and imbibed, and the public and popular culture is drunk with it now. It exists everywhere. There is the example of an airport scene (in Chicago maybe) of a woman walking down from a plane to baggage claim, wailing, crying and everyone giving her that performance space but it wasn’t a “performance”, although it was life/ art. It was a very beautiful piece that I saw. Or the performance of the Heaven’s Gate group – the mass suicide – where they all wore the same shoes, a highly choreographed performance as if done by an MFA student. But it is not to be repeated, not to be imitated. There is another example, a TV advertisement for “Stop Drugs” in which a young woman performatively destroys a kitchen. It looks like a great autobiographical piece that you would find in any workshop or class or gallery. Performance is no longer avant-garde – it truly is practiced universally. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So let’s go back to time because that is the issue here. The times have changed, performance artists don’t need to do what they did because they’ve gotten to the place they need to be, given the interchange between audience and themselves unless there’s a real call for a continuation of that way of working. For example, Paul McCarthy couldn’t keep doing what he was doing because of censorship, policing, jailing and "driving down the LA freeway was danger enough” for Chris Burden. Performance artists can’t always continue to make highly emotional work. We age, we burn out. And performance issues, duration and the times change. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next generation I think is TV-timed, media-timed, even media-bound by the time it takes to click a channel or return an email. The computer mouse and TV channel Clicker have shortened attention spans so that entertainment is where it’s at. How can I keep you with me? I’m either going to go into trance as duration and you’re going to go with me or I’m going to entertain you, take care of you so that you stay with me. Some artists are committed to what they're doing even though it has nothing to do with the times, and everything to do with time itself. They say: ‘I’m going to do it, it’s going to be so time based, it’s going to be so long that you are forced to come with me. You just have to, because I’m a habit now, I’m a habit’. Isn’t there a saying, do something long enough, somebody will notice or feel something or change their brainwaves? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR: I was reading something that Martha Rosler wrote on ‘The Birth and Death of the Viewer: On the Public Function of Art.’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> She was talking about the difference between an audience and the public. At the end of this statement she asked a rhetorical question; ‘Why is it that none of my students under the age of forty even understand the difference between audience and public’? When you are talking about the times changing and performance artists getting older, do you think that working with a group of artists like those artists here in Catalyst Arts in Belfast, that they are coming with you? Do you think that there is something in the younger generation that is following you as participants in the work? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Well, we jump-start their process; they don’t have to go the same places, because they have other places to go. So they can hurry through the appetizer of the body to the main meal, which is the mind, the computer and trans-media. It’s obvious that technology is their play-toy. The best meal probably is still conversing with super intelligence and such theorems while addressing the body, and even though that’s a pretty hard meal to pull off, I think that’s the direction we are going in. The next generation has digital technology that speaks of transformation visually and sonically in ways that we attempted to do from scratch so to speak. It’s now packaged, cellophaned and wrapped in a different way. I’m a real lover of Stellarc’s theory and path. Obsolescence of the body, robotics, implants, genetic engineering, weightlessness and paperlessness are our future. I think that we owe it to ourselves to evolve and now we are the students. I feel I am the student of this younger generation. They will teach me a new meditation. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR: That’s a very generous thing to say. A very generous approach. You feel hopeful? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Well, I have a theory that everyone is becoming a performance artist. The reason there is so much censorship in America now is because it’s very difficult to be “authentically” bodied in America. What is happening is that the great populous has found chat rooms, where they’re doing persona changes, they’re Cindy Sherman-ing themselves, Eleanor Antin-ing themselves, they’re performing and when real artists use real bodies in real time to make a real statement, they are censored and seen as perverse. Actually the populous is projecting their own guilt on real-time-based performance artists. The first amendment is being crushed. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR: But they’re not Orlan-ing themselves? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: No, not at all. Well they are, they run to their liposuction. The next generation does it digitally and technologically. Flesh is being morphed into an interesting container. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR: Where does that leave, do you think, someone like Cindy Sherman or Eleanor Antin, now? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: There is no safe space any more. I think that this is a book time. It’s CD-Rom time; it’s theory time. That’s why this particular generation is so entertainment-orientated. The cabaret signals the end, the saturation point. The TV clicker and the computer screen are fascinating, intoxicating, addicting, empowering and engaging and unless artists make art as totally wonderful and engaging as The Teletubbies, who cares? Who wants to go out at night and be relegated to a seat in the theatre or traffic jams and leave all of that control and color and entertainment behind? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR: Thinking of the works for which you are best known - I’m thinking of Tehching Hsieh’s piece in which you collaborated (One Year Performance, 1983-84), and the piece with Tom Marioni which was earlier (Handcuff: Linda Montano and Tom Marioni, 1973) - where you were physically tied to other artists, and the other long, long piece, 14 Years of Living Art, which was solo and included color and the sound - that’s the kind of experience and the kind of work that I see very little of these days. I think it is incredibly challenging to think how each of these pieces pushes to the limit notions that we might have about gender relations, about how we spend time with people, about ethics, about aesthetics. I think one of the challenging things about these works (apart from the prurient interest that people might have) is how is it, ethically, possible that for a whole year or whatever, you actually get through day after day after day with that sort of discipline, or with being so physically attached to another person. What does that do to time, what does that do to the time of the performance? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: God, I love time! I love playing with time because it is so powerful. Maybe because it’s close to the whole Buddhist notion of impermanence and that brings up the notion of death and that is really powerful. In the 1970s I lived with other artists and I did a whole series of living art performances for three days, five days, eleven days, in the desert for eleven days. The idea is that an artist needs to be greedy and say ‘I am making art all the time’ because unless you are in the studio, unless you’re producing, unless you’re painting, unless you’re sculpting, you’re not worthy, you’re not being an artist, you’re not disciplining. Luckily, I knew that was not so, and in the 1970s, conceptual artists, minimal artists, everyone was playing with the same idea at the same time. The idea was that the idea was the art. The idea that I “one-hundred-monkeyed” myself to was that the universe was my studio and I could relax already! So if the whole universe is my studio then whatever was happening within every moment of time and in every place is art. (This is a simplification of the theory.) Then within that, by carving, sculpting particular time frames within that universal theory, I could train myself mentally with creative meditation to face life more attentively. Basically, it’s an effective cheap drug and a great high! And it’s objectless. You can’t buy an empty, clear and unimpeded mind, which is the result of purificatory performances. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hilary Robinson: Do you know Tarkovsky wrote a book called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sculpting In Time</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which was about his film making - and he used that expression to refer to his film making - which is a lovely title?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> That seems to be more or less what you’re indicating there. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: My training was sculpture, and my love was sculpture, but I didn’t want to make more things. So that the invisible, sculpting the invisible, seemed less polluting and more arte povera. Plus, I could be Living Sculpture. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to go back to what happened to time during the rope piece, Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performance which I joined as he was looking for someone to be tied to. He had done many incredible performances before he met me. I was living in a Zen monastery at the time, I had retired from art, but I wanted to overlay the consciousness of the meditative discipline of mind through training within an art context. Although I would have preferred to have stayed in the monastery, I knew that my calling was to be a fringe, outsider artist. So I found Tehching who was looking for someone and asked if I could join him in his piece and we spent time before the piece, six months in fact, to see if we could be together – at the end of a rope so to speak. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What happened is that unlike the mother who is pushing the child in the wheelchair, unlike the wife who is managing the Alzheimer’s husband, unlike the father whose daughter has come home to die in his house because she has AIDS, unlike all the scenarios we could imagine which are timeless, which go on and on, as if there is no end - unlike that, we had a year and I knew it and I chose it because it was a year. I’m not good when there’s no time frame because I’m untrained, impatient, and faithless. But my performances train me for the long run; my performances train me for what may happen to me or others that I am karmically linked to. My performances are daily life and train me for daily life and any hardships that fate may send my way. I do hard work in case life gets hard. Then I will be ready. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1999</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professor Hilary Robinson is the head of the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster, Belfast. She is a contributing editor to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">n.paradoxa</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Slept with Linda Montano</span></div><br /><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul Couillard</span></h2><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This interview took place in conjunction with a festival entitled </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TIME TIME TIME, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a twelve month series of durational performances by artists from the US, UK, and Canada curated by Couillard.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano’s contribution</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Appreciating the Chakras </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">took place from January 30-31 in the Canadia dell’Arte Theater Troupe Studio Space. The title, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Slept With Linda Montano</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, refers to the 7- hour endurance, Chakra Sleepover/Workshop, Montano offered as part of the event. The unedited interview can be found at </span><a href="http://www.performanceart.ca/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.performanceart.ca/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: Given your history in performance, I wanted to start by asking whether you see a distinction between performance or art and life?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda Montano: Until I wrote a recipe that indicated that every minute was performance, there was a distinction. In 1984 I appropriated all time as performance time or art, meaning every minute of my life was an opportunity for that kind of higher--not higher--but that kind of consciousness, a kind of awareness or--sacredness is a word that is laden--but that kind of sacredness. Before 1984 I made attempts, but they were for a week or a month or for shorter periods of time. In '84 I designed it so that the rest of my life will be in a work of art. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, Tehching Hsieh's concept </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art/Life: One Year Performance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was inspiring, and when I decided to join him in his rope piece for a year and I got to work with this "genius of art," I learned so much about time from him.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: So, everything you do is art because you've consciously identified it as that? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Yes.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: Are there other things wrapped up in that, like a sense of discipline or a certain kind of awareness you try to bring to things?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: It's almost like... There's a massage form called Reiki, and in Reiki, there's a little bit of study, maybe a weekend workshop and three levels. Then there's this so-called initiation, and it's really an initiation into nothingness. It's so simple; it's just a laying on of hands. It's not as if it's a complicated massage form. And for me it was just a matter of consciously setting up the parameters that allowed me to incorporate, appropriate, grab all time as art. It's -- what was that question?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: I was wondering about discipline.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: In the beginning it was about discipline. I had to do this, this, this and this for numbers of hours and days and weeks and months. Then I found that the overall intentionality worked to incorporate my needs, and the disciplines were really my own ego struggling, pushing. So when I lightened up and stopped pushing so much and creating boundaries and formulas, the permission to live in the state of art loosened me up. I started making more things that looked like traditional art because I was free. Before, it was always this sort of guilt of not being in the studio, not producing enough, not working -- which comes out of an art school training or a western model of abundance and consumerism. How can you say you're something if there's no product? When I took that away, I actually started producing, which is always an interesting kind of contrast. But given my philosophy, there's no need for production, because I am in the state of art, so to speak, at all times. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: Why was it important for you to identify what you were doing as art?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Art gave me the same kinds of pleasures and aesthetic ecstasy as the Church used to give me. And because a woman is denied priesthood in Roman Catholicism, I knew instinctively that I would never be able to be a ritual-maker. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: Within the Church—</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Yes, in the Church. I took that aesthetic ritual-making paradigm and placed it in art. Not as second best, but as deep as -- and as wonderful as -- experiences I was having in the Church. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Note: Montano has since re-entered the Catholic Church as a practitioner and would probably answer this question differently today (2001).]</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: Do you make distinctions? For example, when I contacted you about TIME TIME TIME, I told you I was looking at durational performance and I wanted to present a series of pieces that were at least 12 hours long. You could have said, "well, I'm doing that right now" or "I'll come to Toronto and just be Linda Montano", but instead you organized a specific event with an audience component to it that could be published or announced. Is there a distinction to be made between performing a piece called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Appreciating the Chakras </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and being in your kitchen making dinner?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Sometimes you eat chocolate cake with raspberries on it, and sometimes you have a rice cake. Doing a performance like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Appreciating the Chakras </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the chocolate cake with raspberry sauce. It's a luxury, not necessary, but certainly something fun that I am still interested in. I see it as a night out.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: In calling everything you do art, and thinking of what you do as being an artist, do you think an artist necessarily has an audience? Is there a relationship between artist and audience?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: I think it's changing with computers and websites etc. It's becoming a virtual audience -- a non-visible, non-visual, non-physical audience. Then there's the audience of rumor, the audience of legend and gossip--"oh isn't that the person that, you know..." being known for one piece. There is a hunger now for community, for bodily closeness, for performance. But there's also a plethora of taste. Things have gotten so specific to the person, that the people who will come to see a particular piece are drawn chemically by the taste of that person. The flavor of the piece coincides with the flavor of the audience members. I think there are a lot of different levels of audience, unless it's a person or a piece that has such a following or such a need to be seen. Other than that, I think that as performance artists we draw the audience with the taste that corresponds with ours.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: In an interview you did before the Toronto show, you mentioned that one of the aspects of maturing as artists -- I wasn't sure whether you meant specifically in performance art or just for yourself as an individual -- was accepting or recognizing that not all audiences are going to love what you do, or have to like what you do. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: I think that's an important lesson to learn, not getting attached to numbers of people in the audience, not getting attached to being loved, so that you can really do the work for the right motivation. Hopefully the timing of the work is right. I really think a lot of it is about the presenter. If the presenter is coming from the right place and is well loved in the community and does a good job of making the artist comfortable, the audience can feel that and they respond. I think it's a real collaboration, because you can do something in the right place with the wrong kind of treatment or atmosphere, and it's not a good time for anyone. Sometimes it's not the artist so much that's drawing the crowd, but the presenter. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: When you do a piece, what are you hoping the audience will get? Or does that matter?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Community -- that they'll have a place where they can wash their subconscious of ideas or fears or taboos, and a place where they can touch a kind of magical sacredness, have a spiritual high. Moving through matter and the dirt and detritus of matter as a jumping-off place to this ecstasy.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: Do you have any thoughts about the element of time in your work? I chose you for TIME TIME TIME because I was familiar with the fact that you had done pieces that had unusual durations, like being tied to Tehching Hsieh for a year. Or doing a seven-year project of exploring the chakras, where every moment of every day for quite a substantial length of time was devoted to or charged with the intent of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">particular project you were working on.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Working with time allows for a timelessness. You almost have to grab time to go out of time. Focus and concentration and discipline and spaciousness all happen at the same time when you work with endurance and time. It inhibits scatteredness. It inhibits shallowness. It helps us to go to places that change brain waves, literally. If something's done for a long period of time, then brain chemistry changes. All of those things interest me.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: I was very intrigued by the way you chose to structure what we called the 'piece' </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Appreciating the Chakras</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Essentially, there were two parts. The first part of 3 1/2 hours was a soundscape that people could enter or leave as they wished, just soaking in the energy of it. The second part required a different level of commitment on the part of the people who were involved. They were no longer participating spectators; they were being what they were being. You asked us, in a sense, to sleep together. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: "I've slept with Linda Montano."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: (Laughing) I'll bet you have! In the morning, when we were ending the performance, one of the things you spoke about was that there was a sense of community created in our being together, just in doing a simple action together like sleeping. But people had to commit to be there for that 7-hour period and not leave in the middle, whereas the first part was set up so that anyone could come and go.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: A lot of that was just practical safety, in terms of doors opening and closing, people coming in, and protecting the space. Because people were sleeping, the space had to be different, so the parameters were different. But time is energy. We are energy. And energy needs a lot of attention. If we're busy, if there's a divorce from energy, then it’s like not being nurtured, not getting enough food. All of these actions are vehicles. They're designed to produce the effect of feeling aliveness and energy -- and maybe, if there is such a thing, a chemical shift in the brain where it's touching bliss or sacredness.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PC: Is it fair to say that what's involved is a commitment to acknowledging and working with the particular energy of time?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: When you translate time, the next word you get after time is death -- because time is so mysterious and it's all about the race against time, or time out, or time is over, or time is up, etc. Time is a real piece of the puzzle that nature holds and has control of. When artists play with time, they're playing with God's toy, nature's toy. It wasn't designed for us to play with, but artists never play with anything that isn't sacred. Or, it's the artist's prerogative to go into that playground. Time brings up issues of dying and of death. And of impermanence and of change and of flux and of loss. "Time marches on." "I don't have enough time for that." It seems to dog us and nip at our heels and run after us. We don't have enough of it, but when the focus changes, when the artist uses time as a material -- a clay to mold -- the artist can use that material to reach timelessness -- no-time. And no-time is bliss or ecstasy or energy, pure energy. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paul Couillard is the director of FADO, an alternative space in Toronto, Canada.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">************************************************************************ </span></div><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interviews with Conceptual Artists: Linda M. Montano </span></h3><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Terri Cohn </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Terri Cohn interviewed Montano in Fall 2002 for her forthcoming book on female conceptual artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. This interview took place in the Bay Area when Montano was the visiting artist at San Francisco Art Institute.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Terri Cohn: My first question is, when did you become a Conceptual artist or realize you were a Conceptual artist? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda Mary Montano: There were hints going back in time…gatherings of hints from watching my grandmother perform conceptually. She was physically large, took her teeth out to sing, cooked road kill and called it chicken. Nan was aesthetically directed! She did things that were performative, art therapeutic, and I was her witness, watching her every day in silence for hours. I therefore got imprinted conceptually at an early age. Other hints came from my mother and father, who also were both creative…my mother was a painter and singer; Dad is a musician. Even though he owned a shoe store, music was his love. My other grandparents were Italian, almost completely non-English speaking, and conceptually I learned persona--morphing from being around them…changing my consciousness by changing my accent. We can't forget the influence of the Catholic Church! I was not only raised strictly in that religion, but also became a nun for a few years. The Church must breed conceptual artists/performance artists because the configuration of the theology—the visual stimuli, the sounds, the saints, the miracles and the incense—train young minds in "transcendence-thinking" and become perfect components for "conceptual-thinking" later on when those Catholic girls and boys become grown-up artists. After the convent, I went to a Catholic college and studied with an art teacher who is a nun/sculptress, Mother Mary Jane. She skillfully opened my conceptual world by giving me the "key of permission." Because of her spontaneity and creative joy, I found myself twirling around the school with loose energy. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My finest memory is of a conceptual adventure I had there—I organized the other art students to join me in making a clay mural on the school's staircase wall. It felt forbidden in its freedom. Her permission allowed me to be a creative leader, a self-propelled rule-maker, and a wild artist! Isn't that a wonderful gift to give someone! That's what mentors are made for! Conceptually I birthed my first "art-child" in her class, and for my senior thesis in sculpture I made five versions of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visitation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; that's the mystery of Mary/Elizabeth embracing, both pregnant, exchanging energy. I interpreted the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visitation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in clay, wood, car parts, plaster, and that's pretty conceptual. But the most interesting part of the story is that she and I are now talking about sculpting a 45-foot-high version of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visitation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in response to 9/11. Two human towers embracing this time. For my M.A. I studied sculpture in Italy (with a Hungarian violinist-turned-sculptor and ex-student of the composer Zoltán Kodály). It was 1966, an incredible year at Villa Schifanoia, a Catholic graduate school for art and music in Florence, and I discovered that I loved the studio as well as real-time art making, having presented a "happening" at my sculpture opening. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another conceptual highlight! I went on to more grad school and an M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin, from 1966-69. There I studied Conceptual art, Minimal art, and watched the jock guys weld things as tall as Quonset huts. It was humiliating and so I just followed the crowd, stopped assembling crucifixes, made believe I had never even heard the word “Catholic” before, and presented live chickens as art on the roof of the just-opened art building. Hmmm, I guess at that time I thought artists shouldn't be Catholics (was that peer art pressure?), and it’s taken me over twenty-five years to re-assemble the components of my early life. As we speak, I've come back to the Church and am contemplating making crucifixes again! </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next evolutionary conceptual step was to present MYSELF AS ART. All of the previous things I had done happened within the confines of the academy. But the concept of performing "me" was self-propelled, and it was then that my conceptual intelligence and mind took flight and form outside the institutions. I became a conceptual clone of my thoughts. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: So with that in mind, what does being a Conceptual artist mean in your terms; how do you define it? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: What it means is saying “good-bye” to matter, “good-bye” to painting, and “good-bye” to sculpture and flying into freedom, having permission, feeling the excitement of doing what you want, when you want, how you want, why you want. It was complete play, but brilliant and new play. In a sense, if you talk about it in terms of the chakras, it’s moving from the first chakra to the seventh chakra, moving from matter and stuff to spirit and clear mind/concept. It was about being completely cerebral and completely telepathic and completely rumor-based and completely mind-based and completely trickster-based because you know, the origin of Conceptual art was not about money, it was not about galleries, not about audiences—it was about a group, shining their minds into other minds of like-minded people who were having fun and hanging out in that game-world. We were a tribe. Of course, you have to remember that Eastern theologies were being courted and introduced at that time, and all of the secrets and the mysteries of the East were feeding us, along with the women’s movement and anti-war politics. It was a soup of influence. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: How does your identity as a Conceptual artist intersect with what you do as a sculptor and as a performance artist? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: It’s like a hierarchy of title. The Conceptual artist is sort of a grandparent, and then the lineage branches out with variations or sub-chapters or sub-children of the grandparents. Conceptual art is the peak of the umbrella of this graph or tree, a family tree. Conceptual art is translated into performance art for me. I am a living sculpture; </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">notice I didn't say living sculptor but a living sculpture. So I would never divorce sculpture from my vocabulary or my love, and I would never divorce performance art. Conceptual art is a little bit out of my range, so to speak, because it is that grandfather lineage. The popular street title I use is "performance art." Therefore, as a performance </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">artist, I am also a living sculpture. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Can you talk a bit more about that idea of being a living sculpture? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I’d have to talk about money here because it’s about growing up with my parents' memory of the 1930s and World War II. I’m sure my parents and grandparents were resonating with not only the Depression, but also with World War II. And rationing: I remember kneading together white margarine in a sac with a little yellow ball; and I remember ration books and I remember money and food issues as a child, and the Holocaust. Then I remember a kind of permission to live a life of simplicity via Catholicism as a child. And then I remember being a nun. These are images of austerity that formed my style. Oh, but getting back to living sculpture. As a nun I took "temporary" but not professed vows of poverty. So from war to frugality to poverty, it was very easy for me to graduate from making things to making myself. So easy. I wasn’t great at making things look great, but I knew intuitively that I would be more satisfied with making my inner self shine like a wonderful shiny sculpture. Plus it's cheaper! I haven’t accomplished that transformation, but it’s less publicly obvious than making a sculpture that isn’t completely perfect. I’m safer being a living sculpture than I am making something that’s easily judged from the outside and costs tons of money. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: That seems important, because in using yourself, you also get to be a lifetime work in progress. So it’s perhaps a quest for ultimates? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: It never ends. I think the concept of impermanence and the resurgence of Conceptual art is here again because the World Trade Center attack has taught us about the impermanence of objects and the need for pure ideas. It’s very timely to be conceptual, and it’s very timely to rethink all of the good reasons for Conceptual art. It’s a purification of the dross; of the way things evolved and got commodified. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: It’s interesting to hear you talk about yourself and your work as being art in everyday life. Did any other artist influence your thinking about the intersections between art and life? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: The spiritual artists and specifically my yoga and meditation teacher Dr. R. S. Mishra, who has ashrams in Monroe, New York, and San Francisco, influenced me tremendously. Even though he was an adept yogi, he valued the arts and creative expression as the frosting on life's cake! He suggested that you've got to do something to celebrate and cure life. I was also reading </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Artforum </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ARTnew</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s and hearing about Allan Kaprow, and one of my early art mentors was Marcel Duchamp. I adored Duchamp. I think I really wanted to be his art child. When I came to San Francisco, I met Tom Marioni (kind of Duchamp in Italian form) and Howard Fried and Terry Fox. Although I had performed before I came here, I was inspired by the feel of San Francisco and started dancing and celebrating myself. Of course, so many powerful women were here: Pauline Oliveros, Moira Roth, Minnette Lehmann, Lynn Hershman, Eleanor Antin, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Performance Magazine</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Bonnie Sherk, Barbara T. Smith, and all of the fabulous female artists from L.A. who greatly influenced me and supported my dream. Plus my photographer/husband Mitchell Payne and I lived an art/life collaboration that was conceptually/really intense and celebratory. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another one of my main influences was Eva Hesse. Once I sent her a postcard that I was doing something someplace, and I guess I included my phone number...I was a fan. One night I was with my husband-to-be, and I said to him, “Someone’s died that I’m very, very close to,” and the phone rang. I answered it and this man said to me, “Eva Hesse would have wanted you to know that she died.” That was pretty conceptual! So I felt that she’s one of my invisible guiding lights. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: That's amazing. One of the questions that keeps coming up for me is why did you come to San Francisco? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: My husband had been in the Presbyterian seminary in Marin, loved it, and wanted to come back. I followed him. It was the right thing to do. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: How long did you stay? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I stayed five years in San Francisco and five years in San Diego. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Why did you move back to New York? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I followed my next partner, who wanted to move back to where I was from because they fell in love with upstate New York. Is it true that there are no accidents? I'm not sure, but we moved to a meditation center and I retired from art. It was 1980, and I really wanted to stop documenting myself and performing. The A-frame we lived in had no running water, only electricity and a wood stove. It was on top of a mountain: the Zen Mountain Monastery. And it was divine. Early morning meditations happened at the main hall down the path. It was a training center for Empty Mind. Great concepts floated through my mental computer while I sat silently eight hours a day! I highly recommend the practice. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: It seems that you followed the path that you wanted to or what your life dictated rather than being worried about career. So many artists make the choice to move to New York City or to be in L.A. or in San Francisco in order to make a name for themselves. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I left the monastery to be tied by a rope to Tehching Hsieh during his one-year performance. I joined him in his concept and that was a hard decision because I chose to leave the monastic life and to live in New York City and make "art" again. I struggled very, very hard with this decision: wanting life to be meditation disguised as art and doing it in the world. What I gave up was Zen monkhood for Conceptual art-hood! </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: That seems to be an ongoing set of issues for you. Returning to the early 1970s, could you talk about what type of work you were doing then and whether you are still doing that type of work now? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I was exuberant; I was newly married. I was so happy to be here. I loved San Francisco along with marriage, and had recently discovered yoga, which helped me unlock the doors of self-acceptance, self-celebration of the body and mind and spirit. Symbolically, I communicated this ecstasy by wearing a prom dress and dancing on the streets in the dress. I also started developing personae, but that was maybe four or five years later. That work became a serious investigation after I left my husband. I called it creative schizophrenia because I did start splitting off from myself from the trauma of divorce. But I turned this crisis of life into art with the video </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learning to Talk</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1976-78 (Video Data Bank). </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was also very enamored of the performance art scene here and figured out that I had the right juice to come up with a project that allowed me to fit in. For example, I performed in front of the Art Institute on a treadmill, translating my autobiography into action and therapy and sculpture (living sculpture made from living life). I also collaborated with Tom Marioni; danced on the Golden Gate Bridge. It was fun. Mitchell and I went to MOCA [</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Museum of Conceptual Art, founded by Marioni in an old printmaking factory</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">], Terry Fox's performances, Bonnie Sherk's Farm…it was performance ecstasy time. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Do you think that there is a continuity between what you were doing then with what you’re doing now? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: The concept of permission is the ocean, and the waves are how that manifests. My recent translation of how I permission myself to make art of life is care taking my 89 year-old dad. I knew in the back of my brain that I would declare it "art" one day and then teach it, but that took two years to formulate. At first I just stayed with Dad. Now I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">call it art and videotape him. So the ocean of permission, the brilliance and pristineness of that permission has been always there. Then, it's how I permission myself, how I change with my own influences, my own brokenness, my own aging, my own illnesses, my own autobiography, my own living conditions, my own translations of the daily news, my own inner World Trade Center…how I live and then make art of that life-matter. The delicate part is trying not to invade another's space with my own creative need to make art. Often I declare things to be art mentally and put down my video camera. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: One of the ideas that comes to mind is if you’re going to call yourself a Conceptual artist, you have to have invented something. It seems that most of the artists in your group created various kinds of "firsts" during the early 1970s. I was wondering if you could talk about that a little bit. Do you feel you’ve been acknowledged for it? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: For what I created? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Yes, what you invented; what you did in that period of time. I was thinking about the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicken Dance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the fact that you had been in a convent, and the ways in which you have continually reinvented yourself. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: I think I invented a way for the "Catholic girl" inside me to get what she wanted. As artists, we give ourselves what the inner child or the little girl or the little boy always wanted. My gift to art is a "Catholic gift." We see the statues, we see the Crucifixion, and we see these unmoving, perfect beings. I tried to imitate the statues by becoming a saint via art: dressed in white, sitting still, white on my face.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another influence was my mother’s questioning and fun-loving mind. My father is extremely pious, but my mother was a real comedian. I took their gifts and I was able to convert spiritual imagery into art piety. I also have this great ability to make myself and others smile at the irony, the mystery, the tragedy, and the fun of life, and at the beauty of the color of it all. I also hope that I invented a way for spirit to be felt in performance in a uniquely female way. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: How do you think Catholicism formed the inception of your vision of color? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I’m writing a paper on early childhood spiritual memory and its translation into art. I literally took the smells of church, the sights of church, the sounds of church, and almost, as if speaking another language, translated those into my work. I templated Catholicism into art. It was a feminist gesture, not knowing at the time, of course, that I was really just envious of the priests and totally mystified by the Eucharist and the Crucifixion. I wanted that feeling of vibrating resonance in my work. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Did you want to suffer? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: The Crucifixion is an interesting model. I’ve stayed at my work long enough to be able to understand suffering. Hopefully I didn’t get addicted to it, because it is historically enforced in art books (the Van Gogh model), and it’s also enforced in the ritual model of the Crucifixion, except when theology stresses the Resurrection and Transfiguration. So I’m happy that I’ve stayed in my work long enough to celebrate, to laugh, and when I have to suffer in my art, I do it less neurotically than I did before. This all takes time and detachment from having a reputation for endurance or difficult art. You can't put acupuncture needles in your face for every event or a catheter up your nose and out your mouth! That would be taking advantage of a good idea. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: It seems as if you've gone through a transcendent experience or some process of enlightenment in terms of your knowledge of yourself. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: My whole life, I made my living hand to mouth, gig to gig. Then I got a cushy teaching job, and then I got children (students); I got lots of children (students)! That experience really catapulted me back to the Church (I needed help because teaching is a responsibility) and to really looking at my work on a different level. For example, what about sexual imagery in the academy? Hmmm. Big question. You can't let students explore the erotic openly in the academy and then mix that climate of experimentation with the concerns of donors, deans, parents, and colleagues. What a puzzle. People who have children of their own have an opportunity to clean up their act because they want to become a "good example" for their children. Responsibility comes to parents naturally. Non-parents learn other ways. Or you can bypass the system and become a visiting artist, not a tenured professor. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Talk more about responsibility. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: In the 60’s and 70’s we all were very permissive. We were doing research on food, sex, money, and death, all of which are taboo. We had to decode those issues; we had to strip the taboo out of them. We had to immerse ourselves in all of those secrets. And we made mistakes. I feel now that I made many mistakes, but back then I thought I was cool. So teaching those “children” about responsible actions and telling them, “Do not imitate dangerous art, don't hurt yourself," that was responsibility! Teaching helped me to redefine my direction. In fact, it lured me back to Roman Catholicism and I re-energized my roots. In doing that, I traded my art muse for a spiritual muse. My soul was hungry for a higher level of satisfaction. I really believe in obedience, and before I was obeying myself and my art. Now, I feel I did everything that I wanted to do, and I’m saying, “Okay, you tell me what to do. Church, you be my guide. I surrender." It's all very spiritually retro. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: You've done so many things—do you feel you've been acknowledged for them? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: We are not acknowledged until we are able to acknowledge ourselves emotionally. The work has to be done on the intellectual, psychological, economic, and chakra levels, so to speak. Acknowledgment is a complex issue. But I’m really happy with where I am. I’m extremely happy. I’ve occasionally put out career feelers and then pulled back. I've become insistent on having a show someplace. And other times I go into hiding mode and am happy that I can do that for years at a time. It balances the work. There was a great painter who made his living as a dentist and then did his art freely and without art world compulsions. I always liked that story. A hidden artist story. Also there is a movie about a woman healer-preacher who gets burned by the world, goes away, opens a gas station in a desert, and heals occasionally without calling attention to herself. That fascinates me.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Have you always been like that? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Yes, I’ve always been like that. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Was there anything about living in San Francisco during the early 1970s that you feel supported that or supported you as an artist? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: When I come back to San Francisco, I'm reminded that people here are respectful. I remember five years ago, walking from where I was staying to teach at the Art Institute, which is like a second home, and I saw a traffic mishap on one of the major roads that comes in from Marin County. One man hit the car in front of him and they both got out of their cars and shook hands. Isn't that fabulous? Only in San Francisco! That's why I feel supported. The inner/outer life is more balanced here. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: It’s so interesting, to hear you talk San Francisco this way. It seems to have had so much importance in the context of sustaining your life in the most positive sense. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: We have different sites that nourish our muse and help mature us. Some places heat us and bend us sculpturally and with force. Other places are softer in their embrace. But ever since 9/11, the game has changed. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Do you mean in terms of the commodification of performances? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Yes, it’s over. Performance and all the arts are innocent again. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: That brings to mind something that Albert Einstein said, that I think relates to this: “Everything has changed—except for our way of thinking.” I'm not sure I fully agree with it, because with that single event of the World Trade Center Towers going down, everything instantly changed. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I think artists have not been stopped or muzzled by tragedy, but we certainly have been symbolically tossed about. Is the storm over? What do we do now? What do we not do? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: I’m interested in hearing you to talk a bit more about the 1970s; what fit into your vision at that time politically? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: There was a subtle understanding of equality in the San Francisco scene. Gender-wise, the players were equally matched. There wasn’t a fighting for inclusion. There was a real, high-quality respect for each other. Females and males as equals, just sharing the title “artists.” That's great politics.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: Do you think that sense of gender equality grew because so many of you were involved with identity investigations? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Yes, we were all inspired by Duchamp's Rose Sélavy. I don’t know why. Also the celebratory "costuming" of the times: the women's movement's costume, the political movement's costume, the spiritual movement's costume, the drug movement's costume, the hippie movement's costume, the artist movement's costume, the rock and roll movement's costume. All of these permissions to experiment externally/internally were happening at the same time and are a convincing argument for why we responded performatively by adopting aliases, and becoming different people and different personas. Now the reasons for our creative responses are scientific and more about cloning, genetic research, and UFO sightings. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My response in the '70's was to birth myself as my totem animal, and I called myself "Chicken Woman." Later it was hard, difficult things that resurrected different personas and my interest in character, my interest in personalities, and my interest in using accents. For example, when I moved to San Diego from SF and started spontaneously to talk in a French accent, and later I sat in front of a video camera for a year talking in accents that became a kind of more formally constructed investigation of personality. That was my Southern California work, which was fed by the Women’s Building and trauma. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, I’ve stepped back from risk taking that looks creatively celebratory; now I'm not being recognized for my creative self, but rather, I'm seen as the daughter, the sister, the caretaker, the one who left the small town at an early age but went back again. It’s like re-making myself, and I do it as a challenge, I do it as a performance. Sometimes it’s very, very painful because I'm not getting recognition and there is no celebratory permission. Just ordinary life. But the endurance is still there. The endurance of the ordinariness of daily life. The challenge is finding small, hidden ways to make that art. For balance, I enjoy coming to San Francisco, and I enjoy being in the presence of the Art Institute and other places where I can shine as this other persona, which is "the artist in perpetual permission." </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TC: What is your manifesto? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: LIFE IS ART. ART IS LIFE GOOD LIFE IS GOOD ART. ART IS RETIRED WHEN MIND SINKS INTO SILENCE THEN SILENCE/LIFE IS ENOUGH.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2002</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Terri Cohn is a San Francisco based critic and writer.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">************************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Burger King and the Avant-Garde: An Interview with Linda Montano</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jenni Sorkin</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This interview took place on December 7, 2001 in Kingston, New York at the local Burger King in preparation for the exhibition </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Performance: The First Five Years, 1978-1982</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that Sorkin curated as part of her M.A. Thesis at The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Edited by Linda Frye and Steve Durland, High Performance was the only publication devoted exclusively to performance art from the late 1970s until it ceased publication in 1997. Montano was featured often in the early years of the publication. Astro Artz and Station Hill Press, High Performance’s publisher, published Montano’s first book, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art in Everyday Life (1981).</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jenni Sorkin: Tell me when you first heard about </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Performance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, how you got involved with it, and how you ended up in the magazine.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: When I was living in San Diego, I met Moira Roth, who was teaching at UCSD [University of California, San Diego] and was very involved with interviewing performance artists. My interview with her appeared in one of the early issues of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Performance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [vol.1, #4, 1978], along with the text from the performance </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mitchell’s Death</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [1978].</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Was the video of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mitchell’s Death </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">made before or after the performance or simultaneously?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: It was made after the performance. I wrote the text and then performed it live to a video of myself putting in acupuncture needles in the room before I came out. I brought the video on stage with me and played it on a monitor--remember it was the ’70s, so things were pretty primitive--but it was large for the time and I stood in the middle between the monitor and on either side of me were two performers, Pauline Oliveros and Al Rossi, playing musical instruments, a bowl gong and a scruti box from India.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Can you talk about what </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mitchell’s Death </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was about for you?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: It was basically confusion, guilt, tragedy, and shock. I had left my husband, Mitchell Payne, we were divorced, and a year and a half after our divorce he tragically died in Kansas City. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: So was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mitchell’s Death</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a really cathartic piece for you?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: It was a way that the Southern California art community was able to support me in my grief. I left Mitchell to be a ’70s woman so to speak, and do what I wanted.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Had he been responsive to that change in you, or no?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: He wanted to hold onto what we had, and where we were, and I was in an all-or- nothing situation, and I chose to go in the direction of my new life…</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Which was art?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Yes. The ’70s wrecked havoc, you know, in many ways… it was a time permeated with feminist idealism and an American idealism and a hubris that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">suffused</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sponged</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> through the crevices of everything we did and thought. The odor of permission was so, so effusive that we did what we wanted, whenever we wanted and that meant changing sexual proclivities and styles, divorcing and marrying and leaving, and sleeping and drugging and everything. Everything was being experimented with.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: How did you begin performing? You already had a graduate degree…</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: I had an MFA, and I could almost say that I started performing when I left the convent in 1962 and this incredible nun mentored me into artistic freedom. Before the convent I went to college a year, then to the convent for two years, and then back to The College of New Rochelle (in New York) for three years, and this wonderful nun who is still alive gave me my art wings. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: How was your Catholicism tolerated when you were in California?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Well, I was a wimp, and I opted out, thinking that artists weren’t supposed to do it, and I was going to be a good artist and not do it, and I chose to hide my Catholicism and I stopped practicing.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: The ’70s was a decade permeated with Eastern religion…did you take up Buddhism or Hinduism, or yoga, can you talk a little bit about that?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: In the ’70s I started yoga…</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: And did that feel spiritual?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: It was also affirming. It really cut through a lot of the Puritanism that had seeped into American theology. Although now Catholicism is doing quite well, incorporating mysticism into religious practice. Pre-Vatican II was a terrifying world of sin and punishment. So, happily, I found the Eastern traditions, and started with yoga, moved to Tibetan Buddhism and then Zen and back to yoga, and then found a way to interface Catholicism into all of it. Now I practice a Catholicism that is informed by Eastern traditions. It is called Centering Prayer.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: But it took you a long time to get to that point?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: A long time. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Did you ever want to work directly with the earth, did that ever appeal to you, or were you dealing more with the spirit?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: One of the pieces where I did Living Art, Pauline and I lived eleven days in her van, in the California desert. That was earthy. At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, there was an agricultural school and I found myself visiting the live chickens a lot. So for my MFA exhibition, I showed chickens in minimal-art looking cages: 3 cages, 9 chickens. I performed as the Chicken Woman. But I was never an Ana Mendieta kind of artist, I was always more humorously, conceptually-oriented.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: And not object-based?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Hopefully not. Hopefully I stayed away from objects as much as possible. I think any woman who was studying sculpture at the time when minimal and conceptual art were being practiced by heavy-duty welders and fabricators, male fabricators, were pretty intimidated, because these men were making </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">incredibly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> clean-cut minimalist and mathematically precise, well-fabricated things that were very extremely formalistic…</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: And cold? </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM. And cold.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: And did that kind of work make you angry or uncomfortable?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: I didn’t know how to be furious until I embraced my fear, which happened after I was tied with a rope to Tehching Hsieh in his performance </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Year Art/Life</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1983-84). That event uprooted rage and anger, which as a good Catholic girl, I had hidden.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Did you go to Confession as a child?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Lots of Confession. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lots</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of Confession. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Story of My Life</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [1973] was based on having gone to Confession, and re-creating Confession as performance, and reclaiming performance as Confession, taking it out of the box and into the street. I mean, if you look at </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seven Years of Living Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, where I met people one-on-one for seven, ten hours a day for seven years at least once a month, that was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">total</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Confession all over again, only I was the priest, and I think we feminist women, gave ourselves roles to acquaint ourselves with professions of dignity and positions of power.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Do you also think it was giving yourself permission to confess in a public way, to put yourself out there, where if you were raised as a ‘good girl’ where now you got to be a spectacle of some sort, or do you think that performance isn’t ever spectacle?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: That can be pushed only so far. I think that obedience is the issue here, and that obedience is necessary to the human condition, and we are either obedient to ourselves, or the muse, as an artist. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: But you yourself, throughout your work, have really pushed this concept of obedience to become a kind of painful endurance. Very few women have done this kind of work. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Tom Marioni was the first person you tied yourself to…</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Handcuffed.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: I don’t know how long you did that piece for, was it five days?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Some time. I had been doing blindfolds for weeks. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: A week at a time? </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Yes. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Can you talk a bit about the blindfolds?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: I found that if sight, or any of the senses is altered, or taken away, or denied, then hormonally, or biologically, something is activated that raises a level of brain neurons that activate both endorphins and attentional states.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: So did it take you to a different level to do that kind of work?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Absolutely. I had begun yoga and I was trying to initiate the vibratory brilliance of my teacher, Dr. R.S. Mishra.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Did it always feel that way at the beginning, or that’s how it felt by the end of the performance?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Immediately at the beginning. It was taking away a habitual response. This is a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gurdegeift</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> principle that says, if you brush your teeth with your right hand, then do it with your left. So something is done differently. Slow down if you are fast, speed up if you are slow. So these were assignments I was giving myself in order to taste the condition of high states of consciousness.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: But do you think it was also tasting, or coming into this kind of being or awareness that you weren’t permitted in your marriage, or as a woman in this society?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: It’s appropriating the priesthood. But then again, nuns were allowed those states. But again, only the mystics, and the holy anorexics.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: So was it a state of ecstasy necessary for you to create endurance work?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: All of us replicate states that we practiced as young children, and there were certain things that we all did, that we spend the rest of our lives trying to redo, either as life and/or art. I can remember being able to produce states of travel in a high ecstasy by standing on my bed and looking out of this little window in my parents’ house, at night. That was a high-level mysticism for me and a real escape into the void.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Did you leave your body? Was it an out-of-body kind of experience?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: It was more a feeling state, a kinesthesia, an expansion. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Was there power in it, to do that as a child?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: Sure. And then I found that as an artist I could duplicate that by designing or creating actions that when disparate elements were collaged together by choice, my will, my palate, my recipe, I could magically make this magic happen again and share it with others. I would ask them to travel with me so it became not just me, but me in relation to others, all helping collectively to feel the mystery of life.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: A lot of your work is rooted in an ascetic practice, where you are all alone, creating a ritual, with a kind of extreme commitment, where you stake out limits, and proceed to enact them. How does an audience come into that for you? Because a lot of your work doesn’t involve a direct audience. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: I used the audience for years as a witness, but now I’m very, very conscious of where they are, who they are, and are they </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">coming with me</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? If they are not, I’ll adjust, I will make it happen so that is not just myself alone. So, I have really become quite mature in relation to the audience, I’m very, very conscious of them. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: Are duty and family loyalty very important to you? You did that series of portraits of your mother, and she took photographs of you, so you’ve periodically incorporated your family into your work, so that they are part of it, whether they want to be or not. How does that happen? Are they willing subjects?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: I’m noticing that I’m doing now what I call </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dad Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I am hanging around a lot with my father because I am his caretaker and actually, my dad just recently surprised me. Two weeks ago, I asked him if I could videotape him, and he said yes. So I’ve been videotaping this man and making art about him with his permission. We’ve become collaborators, not just father and daughter.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: On tape do you talk to him, do you interview him?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: No, I’m just doing visual images. But this is a really big deal for me, because this is my first collaboration with him. My mother and others were able to do that, but I feel this is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">big</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it has that sense of ‘wow.’ It might not be great art, so to speak, might not, but the process is very satisfying.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: So is the process more important to you than the finished product?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: The weakness of my work is that I would never go for the product and always went for the process and so it’s a shame and it’s a strength.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JS: I think it’s courageous in the sense that you haven’t been afraid to fail, if something didn’t work out.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LM: A Tai Chi master once came over to my studio, a really important one, a Taoist, and he said “Don’t ever look to the outside, you’re work is powerful, let the world come to you.” So that’s what I do. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2002</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jenni Sorkin is an L.A. based critic and researcher at the Museum of Contemporary Art.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*********************************************************************</span></div><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Sample Art/Life Counseling Phone Session </span></h2><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is one of Montano’s many performative interviews that she has done over the years with herself as the subject. Audrey S refers to Audrey Santo, or “Little Audrey,” the young, severely brain-damaged woman from Massachusetts who has become a Catholic icon due to her alleged ability to perform miracles.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All incidents changed to protect privacy.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Audrey S: Hi, is this Linda Montano? My name is Audrey and I got your number from your web site and read about you. Do you still do Telephone Tarot?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda M. Montano: Actually I don't Audrey. Now that I'm a practicing Catholic, I gave it up! But I do Art/Life Counseling. Is there something you want to talk about?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: Yes. I’m an artist, 40 years old and I’ve been working on some ideas that I need help with.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: OK. What I will do is ask you a few questions first. Feel free to edit the questions or change them and really question my questions. OK?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: OK.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: What is your childhood theme or first memory? Say your first thought positive or negative.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: Actually my first thought resonates with the idea I’ve been considering. It's about violence. When I was 7 I saw a neighbor hit his dog with a large stick and it killed the dog. After that I went into a kind of silence and emotional posttraumatic stress, I think they call it and it has affected my dreams.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course I have good memories, a lot of them, but this is the one that surfaces as a theme in my life and work.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Let's start with this information then. You can do the same kind of process with any theme or memory. This is just an example of the kind of thinking you can do.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an artist you have the opportunity to creatively alter, de-fuse, transform, reflect on, dissipate and re-route memories that get in the way of a happy and centered life. That's what's so great about art. It's all material if you want to use it. Of course in the mix are the aesthetic and ethical concerns but for now we will stay with content.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, remember that you have a storehouse of options and media at your disposal and thousands of ways to express your theme or idea.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've found that if you can remain raw in the beginning, it helps the surgery. So write down your incident as truthfully as possible. The sounds, sights, smells, feelings. Don't edit. Do you have access to a sound studio?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: I have a pretty good amateur tape system and can record things at home. I also dance.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Good. After you write the story, find sounds or music that resonates with the story and if possible present it simply, non-aesthetically and in this raw way to your therapist.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After working for a while with the therapist, if she/he feels that it is appropriate to present the material to a few close friends in your home, do so. That way there is no critique, no judgment. If perchance the desire for audience and exposure and a larger sharing is on your agenda, then ethical and aesthetic issues get raised. For example: is my idea readable? What do I want from the other person? Do I want the eyes of the audience? Pathos? Empathy? An aesthetic catharsis? As I age, I'm less willing to go toward "shock" even though it might be in my life and in my material. But that is your decision and depends on what you and your audience can handle. Sometimes warning them of what they are about to experience is helpful.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: I have avoided emotion in my work because I fear going to that big place. Any thoughts?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: The important part is honoring the memory. Before I started therapy I thought art could do it all. Then I shared it all with therapy. I found that I needed religion to even it all out. Some work has changed drastically. It is definitely a smorgasbord of art, healing and spirit.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You might work out the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sturm und drang</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with the therapist or with prayer. By the time you get to the public, all the pain of the memory and terror might be wrung out and your performance might look very non-aggressive. For example, you might cradle a stuffed animal in our arms and sing softly to it. Or cry as you talk to it. Or raise Seeing Eye dogs for the blind as art. Or volunteer at a dog shelter as art. Or make a 14-foot dog puppet and dance with it for 3 days at noon until 4!</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember, your aim is to evolve from repressed trauma to embraced compassion. I don't want to sound like a grandmother but try being Dali Lama-ish about your work. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: That makes sense. There's enough struggle in my daily life. Maybe my art can be a place where I get some different kind of nourishment.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: The performance of the 70's was so much more self-referential in a narcissistic way. Now times have changed and artists are employing the genre to evolve their consciousness not haze themselves. TV is doing that to the new every artist! Just look at </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Survivor</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Temptation Island</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. A lot of performance art concepts are commodified there. Right?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: Yes. I know you were tied with Tehching Hsieh in his </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Year Art/Life Performance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Isn't there a new TV program about a woman being tied to four men or something like that?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I still find the workshop setting and doing it for friends setting the best. Once it gets out to a larger public, trouble arises. Cutting, shooting and re-enacting of 70’s concepts can often hide the simple need to be healed via creativity in a safe and healthy and appropriate way.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: Linda, I'm trying to write this all down. Can I pay you for this? What do you charge?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Nothing. Just do something for somebody else in the next 7 years. Give your niece some art supplies.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: What do you do to keep your mind vital? I find the emotional so bothersome and so punitive.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: A few years ago I was having an exceptionally hard time. I did this subconscious re-programming on myself. It is a collage of a lot of techniques that I learned from others. Try it; see if it helps. You can do it as I describe it or write it down and do it later, whichever you like.</span></div><br /><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notice that cultural beliefs run our thinking.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some are negative, out of date and are stored deep in the recesses of the mind.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Locate the belief storage container.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be the architect of a new one if you don't like yours.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pick out a negative thought that has been running your life.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write it down. Edit it and make it positive, even saccharine.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now go inside and imagine your favorite friend or inner guide or teacher standing next to your belief system container.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The formula is, I----------NAME, NOW BELIEVE------------</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you say your new belief out loud three times, give the old one to your friend and let her discard of it.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Repeat when necessary.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: That sounds great. Mine was "I'm always feeling terrified and terrorized." And I changed it to, “I, Audrey, now believe in that inner harmony, and practice spacious and trusting beauty inside myself." Is that saccharine enough?</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Excellent!</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AS: Thanks, Linda. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: You're welcome. Happy art/life to you, until we meet again. (Sung to Dale Evan's Happy Trails To You.) Bye.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Perfect.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2002</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*********************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Self) Interview: Teaching Performance Art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Question: When did you first become interested in teaching? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda M. Montano: Since 1966 I have been teaching art and have become familiar with teaching on the following three levels: </span></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teaching sculpture and object making at Catholic women's colleges </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1966-1971 </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teaching performance art itinerantly with no administrative responsibilities in hundreds of places, 1971-1991 </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teaching performance art in a university while participating on committees, and in the life of academia, 1991-1998 </span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Out of those three experiences, I prefer the visiting artist model since that better suits my skills, my personality and my style.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: What is your style?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I teach performatively, that is, what happens with people who spend time with me in the classroom is sometimes identical to what happens in performances. The classroom is a laboratory for the creation of presence, community, structure, intimacy, analysis, information and transformation. That has always been my goal. When I wear my performance art teacher mask, I allow myself to engage the body, mind and spirit of those playing the role of student. But the bottom line is that I must be engaged, attentive, having a "good" time for the whole thing to work. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: That sounds like a theater workshop to me. Is there a difference?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Videotaping one of my classes would reveal that many of the activities look the same as those you would see in many other places. So what you are saying is true. But also I'm convinced that fate puts us together with certain people who can tolerate each other's style. This gives that group a chance to get very high together, for lack of a better word. When they leave the lab/classroom, they adjust their methodologies to daily life and make that a performative dance. (See Linda M. Montano, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art in Everyday Life</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 1981) </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: Who were your mentors?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Every spiritual teacher I've ever had especially my meditation Guru, Dr. R.S. Mishra as well as composer Pauline Oliveros and performance artist/teacher Eleanor Antin. All were holistic and were totally themselves when they taught. Plus, they had a ball! </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: Describe a typical class. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: I start with the body. We might stretch to Indian Ragas, slow walk while accompanied by the TV news, or imitate geriatric courting birds. Addressing the physical first allows for instant trust, instant community, and a change of focus from the stresses of everyday mind. Play silences the judge. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then what follows is a sound exercise or what Pauline Oliveros terms “Sonic Meditation.” These soundscapes are effective ways to clear out the debris of ego, worry, and make room for the authentic presentation of self later on in the class. And for the soul, silence might be "felt" or a chakra visualization offered to deepen inner awareness. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">None of these examples are set in concrete since all is based on mood, weather, the day, and the needs/demands of the group. Often we have left the room, gone to a stream and sat the entire class. This is the bottom line: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to create creative presence, attention and trust so that students can perform their secrets or lies, their autobiographies or celebrations, and their concerns or outrageousness for each other is a healing/beneficial environment.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's experiment now and do a fast, McDonald’s version of one of my classes. First, stretch your shoulders. Good. Feel your muscles breathe. Good make a sound. Disguise your voice and tell your own inner child something that you need to hear. Now make an animal sound that sums up your experience of the College Art Association meetings. Now feel the texture of silence and breath for 30 seconds. Good. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: How do you grade performance art? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: One of the reasons that I am not able to perform the role of professor is because I insist that excellence is not measured by ADCB, but by the ability to change, to feel and to charge brain waves via the creative exploration of autobiography as art. Sure, in some classes my students have written extensive heady and theoretical research papers on ritual, gender, the body, the purpose of audience, and the history of performance. These papers serve as a gradable objects but I am still most facile and comfortable as a teacher when I don't have to serve as an arbiter or judge of another's excellence. I would often say to the students:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grade yourself at the end of the semester </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or "You start this class receiving an "A". And at the end of the semester, I would say, "Do you feel that you deserve an "A?" If they say no, then I would comment, "Then do x number of hours of community service to compensate for any lack of effort you might have given your work." </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or sometimes I would announce, "All of you are getting "A's" and from the shock of that gesture, the rest of the semester we would rock and roll in relief. </span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why are grades so problematical? I think it's because performance art from its inception was about the edge, the outside, and the permission not to belong. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance artists teaching performance art in the academy have this great opportunity. They can give students </span></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Permission to use both brains </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Permission to move from trance to analysis </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Permission to create critiques that heal and don't hurt </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Permission to clean up our acts in front of each other </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Permission to take the practice home and make daily life, art. </span></div></li></ul><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: Are you teaching now?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Right now I only do occasional gigs as a teacher. Fate has designed it so that I'm there to assist my 88-year-old father (now 89 and just had a stroke) who acts like MY teacher. I call my current work </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blood Family Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with subheadings for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dad Art, Sister Art, Niece Art, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">etc.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My goal is to stay put, stay home (this was written pre-Sept 11, 2001 when staying home was almost mandatory) not even thinking of taking an airplane anywhere and still teach as I did with Linda Weintraub's students at Oberlin via sending performance videos back and forth. This exciting model of invisibility and non-present technological permission-giving led to different levels of disclosure that I would like to continue to practice, using video or video conferencing as the teaching medium. Here are some reasons why I love video and distance teaching as the medium of exchange: </span></div><br /><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video is familiar and easy for today's students because it mimics TV, their techno-friendly babysitter of choice.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video elicits a performative response and satisfies the universal need for stardom/visibility/play. We all love to show-off. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video temporarily eliminates authorities/judges/censors/audiences and since the camera morphs into the robotic self, seeing/viewing the "live" self, freedom is assured.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video is cold and allows the performer to be hot/cold/intimate or distant. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video is a meditative facilitator, allowing the user to technologically journey/journal themselves autobiographically until their history and personal story is repeated long enough to be silenced into self-acceptance. </span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So that remains my dream.... to stay home, send videos back and forth, get paid a salary and then take a group of artists (astrally?) to visit the Marian Shrines of Europe as a Life Performance.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Q: Why would a performance artist want to teach performance art?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LMM: Are you referring to classroom issues and things that happen there like danger? Like censorship? Issues of content? Of divergent moral/religious beliefs in one classroom? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are you referring to parental disapproval? Are you talking about the difficulties faced by teachers of performance art who have to "satisfy" deans? Colleagues? Donors? Fundamentalist alumnae?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teaching performance art honestly and sincerely is one of the most demanding professions on earth. Those willing to dance their way through the challenges must go into the academy with: </span></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their eyes wide-open.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their aikido stances strong and centered </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their wisdom polished by compassion </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their ability to adjust to all of the other personalities intact </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their aesthetics impeccable </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their history of the genre studied </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their humor intact </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their skin thick and thin at the same time </span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To Conclude: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's take a minute of silence to first see/feel light and then send this light of protection to all teachers of performance art. And to those of you contemplating teaching performance in the future, congratulations, and may the force be with you. </span></div><br /><br /><div style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2001</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-38085385856006017012017-04-11T13:02:00.001-07:002017-04-11T13:02:54.343-07:00MANY WRITINGS FROM LETTERS FROM LINDA MARY MONTANOFROM THE BOOK: LETTERS FROM LINDA MARY MONTANO EDITOR: JENNIE KLEIN<br /><br /><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WRITINGS</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*********************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art as Therapy/The Reason I Decided to Become an Art/Life Counselor </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This piece was written in response to Montano’ concern that art making had become less about fulfilling the soul and more about having an art career, making money, and getting reproduced in magazines. Never published, this piece was rediscovered by Montano several years ago in the Linda Mary Montano archives, which she was assembling in anticipation of selling them to an institution or art organization. Because of the limitations of space, this book contains less than a quarter of what is available in her archive.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I. How long can artists pour themselves into highly charged performance situations without being burned out emotionally? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moira Roth.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.2pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Artists tend to deny the relationship of their work to therapy and subsequently to psychology, insisting that they make highly inspired, intensely complex works which link them to the history of art and aesthetic traditions. This need for professional validation is somewhat arcane because underneath the surface of each artist is a shaman, an instinctual curer and therapist who lives a life outside of and beyond social medicine. Artists have found that the best way to direct their energies, learn hidden information about themselves and face hidden fears is to pursue the relationships of space, form, color, texture, size, mass and directional in an obsessive way. Instead of brooding about what is wrong in their lives, artists are trained to use problems as material for their work since work diverts anxiety, fear and worry into artistic expression. Even though the art practice on some levels serves this therapeutic purpose, most artists disregard the connection between themselves and the practice of psychology. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">II. Do more. Try to tickle something inside you, your ‘weird humor.’ You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you feel fear, make it work for you. Draw and paint your fear and anxiety. And stop worrying about big, deep things such as ‘To decide on a purpose and way of life, a consistent approach to even some impossible end or even an imagined end.’ You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to do. Les Levine to Eva Hesse.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why do artists deny their connection with psychology? Is it because art history refuses to talk about the reasons for creating? Most art history classes and books stress space relationships, composition and the school that the artist imitates or begins. Sources aren't considered, formulas and technologies are. The only hint that art students have that the artist is concerned about the therapeutic nature of work and ideas is a reference to Van Gogh’s missing ear and the movie about Van Gogh’s life called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lust For Life</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. If the reasons for creating were more readily discussed among artists in art schools or by art historians, then eventually art making would radically change. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">III. What I am doing now might not be a peak of matured painting; but they are good, follow an idea, and they are the work of a young, active, developing painter. Only painting can now see me through and I must see it through. It is totally interdependent with my ambitions and frustrations. It is what I have found through which I express myself, my growth, and channel my development, within its scope I can develop strength and conviction. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eva Hesse</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The attitude toward the artistic process began to change in the late 60's. Conceptual Art, Body Art and feminist art introduced the "New Way" which de-emphasized traditional classical values and technical virtuosity. Focus was now on feelings, interior need and the total process of the artist, not just his/her technical virtuosity .In fact, artists working in these new areas were less concerned with are and more involved in personal initiations, psychological transformations and group therapy. They hardly touched brushes, paints of sculptural material. Instead ideas, bodies and psyches were formed, molded and aesthetically examined.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IV. It seems ironic that Fox has been categorized as a ‘Body Artist’ when in fact the focus of his art is escape from the confines of the body. Fox has explored in his work an astonishing number and variety of means of evading or rising above the limitations of body or corporeality: energy transformations and transferences, sleep and dreaming, levitation, reincarnation, music, fasting, religious chants, mantras, melting, dissolving (wax, liquid, smoke, dust) hypnosis, automatic writing and accident, hallucination. Brenda Richardson about Terry Fox</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is relevant to look at some of the reasons for this emphasis on the person and process rather than the object. Actually artists were doing what they always do, mirroring the social fabric which was slowly unweaving. As a result there were lot of loose ends in the late 60's, a senseless war in Vietnam, breakdown of authoritarian structures sexual revolution, drugs, re-evaluation of the nuclear family, the women's movement, spiritual movement and many other hidden factors for change. Conceptual art and Body art grew out of and psychically foretold these social issues. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">V. Powerlessness and lack of self affirmation led to aggression as repeatedly asserted by psychologists and psychiatrists. Psychological powerlessness is the result of past events but institutional and cultural powerlessness are here and now.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edward T Hall</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My own response to the chaos of the late 60"s was chickens! I substituted them for sculptures that I could have made and presented them in an art context. And in 1971, I literally became the "Chicken Woman,” appearing in public places as a living statue dressed in my Chicken Woman habit. In retrospect, it seems that most of the work had a therapeutic reason but was always couched in the language of sculpture. My insistence on belonging to the art community committed me to my work but I was forced to find an individual sculptural language suitable to my needs. That was the beauty of the 60's and its source of energy, there was permission to do what you wanted to do, find a personal form based on a historical structure but do things your way. And I did! So instead of going for therapy three times a week I would blindfold myself for three days when I lost touch with who I was. Instead of learning about my early relationships with my parents from an analyst, I interviewed them repeatedly and tried unveiling the information artistically. Instead of spending thousands of dollars on therapy, I spent that much on videos, photography, making a book and insisted on doing things for myself, in my way. Solutions and findings seemed quixotic, sometimes hermetic and often humorous but I called all of it ART! </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VI. Humor counts into the consciousness like a knife. It's an elegant solution, an elegant gaiety, and this can be overlooked if one’s understanding of life is not expansive enough to project beyond the personal problems and feel a kind of Homeric laughter running through the whole structure of life and natural powers. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph Beuys</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to move beyond the personal it first must be acknowledged. Feminism sanctified the personal. It challenged women to find themselves and be themselves. Performance became a valid and effective mode of discovery for some women artists. Their work generally looked a little bit like art and a lot like therapy. Hurray I say! Expertise, skill, and audience approval was not sought after. Women’s performance was about the raw and unabashed truth of the struggles of being a woman. This early work was a clear-cut case of therapy, consciously chosen as art. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VII. And what about women artists? We have seen it has only been in the last several centuries that women have been permitted to participate, and then only on an individual basis, and on male terms in the making of culture. And even so their vision had become inauthentic; they were being denied the use of the cultural mirror. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shulamith Firestone</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even though women began expressing themselves, performance presented a problem after a few years. Everything was fine while sympathetic female audiences were there as mutual performers/supporters and part of the process. The re-enactment of eons of repression was mutually beneficial. But after some years, critical problems set in motion and spontaneity was more difficult to attain. The honeymoon of innocence was over and Feminist art began suffering the strains of time and habituation. Women were forced to entertain per usual and as a result that initial free way of working was over. Some women sought the safety of workshops and friendly small groups of mutual friends again and performed there. Other feminist artists remained public and visible. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VIII. The endurance of more art by women into the establishment is certainly good for the establishment. But it is, perhaps, less of a good thing for feminist art. One of the questions we have to answer is whether women want the same things that men have wanted, whether ‘greatness' in its present form is in factor, desirable.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucy Lippard</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chris Burden chose to be great in the traditional way, by doing great big newsworthy things, challenging himself and audiences with suicidal-type actions which often morally implicated everyone present, that is, if I don’t personally stop this now, he dies, but then again, art is sacred and mustn’t be "tampered with.” For years he was the public martyr whose themes were physical endurance, pain, death, risk and starvation. It all started in 1971 when he was locked into a school locker for 5 days having prepared himself by fasting and checking the project with medical authorities. He endured. A hose leading from the locker above provided water and the locker below held a jar and hose for urination. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IX. It was more like mental experience for me. To see how I would deal with the mental aspect. Like knowing that at 7:30 you're going to stand in a room and a guy is going to shoot you. I'd set up by telling a bunch of people that and that would make it happen. It was almost like setting up fate or something, in a real controlled way. The violence part wasn't really that important, it was just a crux to make all of the mental stuff happen.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chris Burden</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Out of 48 of his performances, 28 are concerned with death. The Art/Life Counselor in me asks “why does he choose such drastic measures?” Karl Menninger sees self-mutilation as a victory, albeit a costly victory, of life over death, a victory of aversion of total annihilation over the other alternative, suicide. Self-mutilation is a victory of the life-instinct over the death instinct.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">X. Artaud compares his theatre to a plague: A disorder of the most horrendous type which brings with it both social and psychological disturbances. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bettina Knapp</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is Burden cured? I prefer to think that he has successfully worked on himself. Body Art, early Feminist Art and some Conceptual Art qualifies as therapy because artists are probing places that formerly belonged to psychological realms. The new artists have been personally stretched, tested, encouraged and made aware via their work. No outside professional help is needed because other artists and friends act as co-therapists and the performance art magazine </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Performance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> doubles as a psychological journal. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">XI. I was being educated as a social activist. I had been in VISTA for a while and worked in mental hospitals. There was a strong emphasis on performance in Judy’s (Chicago) program so I was exposed to it from when I first got involved with her. So I simply turned to performance and the first pieces I did were pretty much involved with body and identity and using biological imagery, doing things like tying myself and the audience to beef kidneys. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suzanne Lacy</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And what of the 80's? How does the new wave respond to questions of life and death? Quite brashly, assertively and with a somewhat healthy cynicism. They snub nostalgia, champion an aggressive stance, brandish self-torture as paradox and glory in technological isolation. Remember, we all react to the generation that preceded us. Seventies performance artists have touched their own shadow and now are teaching and writing books about what they have discovered. We watch the next generation of performance artists to see what we really have been and look forward to new discoveries to come. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">XII. As The Tibetan Book of The Dead teaches, the dying should face death not only calmly and clear mindedly and heroically but with an intellect rightly trained and rightly directed, mentally transcending, if need be, bodily infirmities as they would do if they had practiced efficiently the art of dying. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WT Evans Wentz</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance is practice for the endgame. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UPDATE: After being tied to Tehching Hsieh in his </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Year Art/Life </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">performance for a year, I began professional therapy and now believe that art is not enough. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1977/2002</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">************************************************************************</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Astral History 1996</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This piece was originally typed and placed on the door of the Amsterdam School for New Dance for a workshop that Montano gave astrally.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Past: About 20 years ago, as an art performance, I appeared “astrally” at Bud’s Ice Cream store in San Francisco, while living in San Diego CA, having divorced my husband and wanting to see him yet also wanting to be with my new mate. So I used art to leave my body and go back to him symbolically and humorously. I sent announcements to him and my friends to go to Bud’s where I would “appear.” My intention and heart were there in San Francisco but no one saw me.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Present: As art, I will appear “astrally” and seasonally (four times a year) at the Chagall Chapel, United Nations, where I have donated myself as a living sculpture. I tried getting permission to physically appear there but getting past guards and through bureaucratic red tape and intricate screenings was not possible so I am performing in this formidable institution “astrally” and “illegally.”</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Future: At menopause I had to adjusting to my new body image. The physical changes and strong gravitational flesh pulls challenged me to examine death and loss. So appearing astrally became a way to practice dying and also a way to address the social invisibility that happens naturally as sexual energy transforms itself with time and age. My aging is beginning to feel like the ripening that it is. And now, I send my astral self to many events as Art. That way, I do my work on many different levels. I recommend astral appearances to anyone not wanting to do the following:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compromise their immune system.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Breathe airplane air.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Show their cellulite legs and double chin to friends. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think they’ve fallen in love once again while away from home.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sleep in a strange bed belonging to a smoker. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eat too many cheese nachos at airports.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have a hot flash at a crowded art reception.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***********************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Plus 1 Equals 1 1989</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This piece was written after Montano had moved from Austin, TX to Kingston, NY and re-opened THE ART/LIFE INSTITUTE. This piece, never published, is presently in the Linda Mary Montano archives.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to my mother I was not visible when she was pregnant because I came in January and her heavy coat hid her big stomach and my presence. One story is "everyone was shocked when you were born, Linda" and after years of research into reasons why I do performance, I've decided that this uterine story might be ONE (not the only) of the plausible reasons why I have always felt a need to "shock” myself and audiences with my art. Sorry for the implication, Mom! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are encoded at conception and have picked up attitudes and tendencies while in the womb. Behavioral scientists are realizing that. As a result, a new-ageish training course is offered to parents-to-be which prepares the whiz kid of tomorrow by sending them to pre, pre, pre-nursery school, The School of the Womb. Did I make this up? In the class the parents are encouraged to read books to the fetus through the mother's mouth, make sounds so sounds at birth won't be startling. You can imagine other permutations. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having been born before all of that, much of my work is about mending the past. But on the other hand, early conditioning and deprivation has produced some pretty outrageous later manifestations, gestures and actions. The way that I read it, since I was somewhat "invisible" in utero, I carried over the need to be seen into my life and later made an art of it? Does this make sense?</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With all due respect to my parents, I would like to illustrate how the theme of invisibility/disappearance/transcendence was first acted out in my life. Once I realized that I might as well make a career out of this propensity for the mysterious, I transferred the gift into a moneymaking vocation--OK so it isn't much, performance doesn't pay, as we all know.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Four Ways I Learned to Leave the Body in My Daily Life</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an infant I was allergic to cow milk formula and threw it up. My mother told me “It used to look like cottage cheese coming out of your mouth." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Example of Objects Leaving the Body</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When 7 years old, I threw up breakfast all over my parents’ new wallpaper, every morning before school, and the reason was because kids were stepping on my coat in the cloakroom and I couldn't communicate this to anybody. Once I told the reason to my parents and was given a private coat hanger, I never threw up again. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Example of Objects Leaving the Body</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When 21, while in the convent, I became anorexic and left weighing almost half my weight. Was I solving the riddle of physical transcendence but using drastic methods? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Example of Experiment with Transcendence</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="4" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When 28, I was in a rollover car accident. I remember returning (astrally???) to my shocked body and feeling a re-entry. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Example of Leaving the Body and Returning</span></div></li></ol><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art, A Place Where I Practiced Disappearance With Self-designed Semblances of Safety</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The above “life" examples are pre-performance ways that I solved things and asked questions. As a trained sculptor I later made objects that could appear and disappear using clay, wood, stone, metal and stuff. Eventually I collaged early childhood memories and impressions humorously and aesthetically and called the actions performance, getting rid of the "stuff" in my work. Animals, particularly chickens, became stand-ins for me in the following performances: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Animal as Self: Chickens</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1969.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div></li></ol><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I presented chickens in cages for my MFA show and saw them as a metaphor for me, hoping they would illustrate my expertise with the concept of art but also be a humorous fill-in.</span></div><br /><br /><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self As Animal/Saint: Lying, Sitting, and Dancing As Chicken Woman, 1971-76.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By becoming the chicken I could also be the nun/saint in disguise> By doing performance actions on the street, I was drawing to myself attention that I could not give myself and yet learning from audiences how to eventually be with ME. The endurances were short, usually 3 hours, but were training me public ally. And because I had strong internal messages to feel comfortable in poetic "disappearance", I could easily become anyone or anything, even a saint? A chicken? </span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self As Other: 7 Characters. 1975</span></div></li></ol><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By 1975, I had formalized and made the gift of being able to get out of my own way, a bit more sophisticated and with the help of southern California and it's invitation to dramatize, I resurrected in myself 7 personae, and found that I could easily act as them, perfect them, speak as them and this was much more fun and easier than being me! By then I was beginning to ask, who is the real Linda Montano? </span></div><ol start="4" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self as One: One-Year Art/Life Performance. 1983-4.</span></div></li></ol><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 3pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tehching Hsieh's art is extremely rigorous. With his performances he keeps himself focused, in danger, responsible and honorable. I joined him in his rope piece and the intensity of being tied to him with an 8-foot rope, not touching and always in the same room drove me into three directions:</span></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Into the darkness of rage and emotion that I am still in the process of sorting out with traditional/professional therapies. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whole-heartedly into the present moment because training in dangerous actions, cultivates a mind of present centeredness.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Into an altered state of union with both him and everything a transcendence and indivisibility that verged on the divine. </span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="5" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self As Art: 7 Years of Living Art. 1984-1991.</span></div></li></ol><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After being tied for a year, I knew that I needed to design my own long-term project that would teach me about the possibility of art being life and life, art. Because by insuring myself that I am "in art" at all times for 7 years and that the entire universe is my studio, I have lifted the pressure to create since every minute is framed and being used creatively. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Included in the recipe that I have written for these 7 years, is an invitation for 7 well known women to "guide" me, inspire me, take care of me, and teach me. For example in year one, Joan of Arc was my guide, year two, Teresa of Avila etc. This ability to be suggestible flexible is again a trait that has a deep-seated history in my love of invisibility, shape shifting and transcendence. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond Self</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We come from the invisible and return to the invisible. While alive, to experience that condition of nothingness seems an appropriate dress rehearsal for the appearance of Sister Death’s visit and invitation to leave the body. Meanwhile, I practice as art. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Update</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I continued </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7Years of Living Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> another 7 years and it was called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14 Years of Living Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">************************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Endurance Then and Now 1998</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This paper was first presented as Montano’s final good-bye performance at University of Texas, Austin in 1998 just before she moved back to Kingston New York.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This presentation/paper is not only about my work; it is also designed to include you the listener/reader because I will be asking you endurance questions throughout. For example: What event in your life challenged you to endure? Take a minute and review the event. Where are you now with this event? Are you in the waiting stage, feeling the emotions? (Pause) Or are you in the anger stage, confronting the event? (Pause) Or have you transformed the event, accepted it, and made art with or about it? Wherever you are, the non-defined feeling stage, the anger stage or the transforming stage, is where you are and the place you need to be. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: The week before Christmas, I sat by my father's bed, 24 hours a day for 6 days and nights, in an upstate NY hospital, as he recovered from disc surgery. I listened as he hallucinated from the painkillers and observed visually the woman down the hall strapped to her chair across from the nurses’ station, sounding like the female comedians from the British TV sitcom </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Absolutely Fabulous</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barbara was her name and she was raging, remembering past injustices from childhood, calling to God (This is not the only reason to be nice to people...they never forget any unkindness on a cellular level). I was the observer, watching it all, choosing to be there. Who was waiting in this scenario? Who was enduring? Was it art or just a case of life waiting to be magically changed into art? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Endurance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have always been interested in enduring. As a young Catholic girl, I knelt before the bloody gory Crucifix in our upstate NY church and I waited, endured the discomfort that comes from kneeling, endured the isolation that comes from choosing church over play and "fun," endured the possibility that I might not be good enough or saintly enough to go to heaven or be like Jesus. I was definitely linked to suffering, penance and the guilt fast track at a young age.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I remember how nuns would talk about Christ and how he endured the suffering of carrying the cross, how he fell down, how he was nailed to the cross, and died miserably, forgiving everyone. His endurance etched itself into my belief system. When I was seven years old, I wanted to be a saint and I thought to do that I had to suffer like Jesus. That became the plot and story line for my entire life quest. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At twenty I entered a convent, “enduring " two years as a Catholic nun, living in silence those two years except for one hour a day when we all talked together in recreation. I loved the community and dedication to a higher good and absolutely pure goal, but I left anorexic, having lost nearly 50 pounds in six months, high as a kite on endorphins. Holy anorexia? Delusions? Endurance gone amuck? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was introduced to art soon after, I immediately found a way to transfer religious fervor and my predilection for penance and suffering into my work, first as sculpture and then as performance art. For example, I sat for hours; lay down for hours, danced for hours in public places, asking audiences to watch me endure. Give me attention I demanded; witness my long-term commitment. And in so doing, I felt more alive as I soaked in their curiosity. It was as if I couldn't exist without them. Their presence was like a bath of recognition and approval. I wanted them to delight in my actions. Without the other's gaze, I didn’t feel anything so I learned more intricate ways to raise my own energy and get others to view me doing so. Then there would be this synergistic marriage of static electricity going on. They were in this web of my mysteries as viewer and manipulated into the role of voyeur, mid-wife to my happiness and co-creator of my art. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some Images From That Time: </span></div><br /><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lying three hours in a bed surrounded by 12 paper maché chickens, dressed as a saint.... enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sitting as a saint, in 9 places in Rochester, three hours each place, holding a home-made chicken sculpture.... enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walking on a treadmill for three hours going uphill, telling my life story...enduring. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lying in view three hours with acupuncture needles in my conception vessel...enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Standing outside ringing a bell as a Salvation Army bell ringer.... enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living 3 days handcuffed to Tom Marioni.... enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living blindfolded for a week, or preparing for old age and potential blindness.... enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living in a gallery room as five different people, one a day...enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Studying the martial arts so as to channel rage into good action...enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mourning the death of my ex-husband for two years as art.... enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Singing a song for three hours to my husband after his death.... enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camping out in many galleries, museums and art spaces, using everyday life as art.... enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Going to the New Museum once a month for seven years, giving Art/Life Counseling...enduring. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14. Living for a year tied by a rope to Tehching Hsieh in his </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Year Art/Life Performance…</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enduring.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living for 14 years in seven different colors to honor the chakras and sacraments...enduring. </span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pause</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now take some time and imagine your own performance. Create an action in your imagination that would mirror one of your life issues and see yourself enduring. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Certainly there is a psychological and Freudian view that can be seen in my work but let’s also suppose that the work is a very intuitive, shamanic, and ritualistic way that I invented to lead myself into altered states of consciousness while bringing the viewer along with me on this interior and mysterious journey. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Possibly there are many ways of viewing my intentions and I believe that sometimes there is a thin line between neurotic narcissism and tantric shamanic soul travel. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like Catherine of Siena and many other Catholic saints and mystics, I was enamored of endurance so I could tough it out, prepare myself for the hard knocks of life, fight the good fight, bite the bullet, keep it up, go the whole nine yards, get the job done and give my all (For me? For God? That took along time to decipher).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once I learned of Hindu yogis and their methods of achieving stillness, concentration, equanimity and inner silence, I felt in the company of kindred spirits and brother-sister travelers. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tibetan nuns, lost/found in trance, endure rigorous/repetitive mantras, visualizations, penances, charnel ground watching, all meant to make them impervious to Himalayan cold, pain, the mind and illusions of the relative world. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These practitioners are some of my guides, helpers, teachers, mentors and inspirations on my path.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pause</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who is your helper? See this person. Thank them. Vow to become a helper to someone else in the future. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have looked at my background. Let's now look at some universal reasons why we all endure. Endurance is built into our system because under this skin is a galaxy of networks, a mysterious world of muscles, bones, veins, and organs which endure our turbulent emotional states, endure our tortured thoughts, endure our various and punitive diets, endure the torture of climate changes and home-uprooting, endure our lovelessness, endure our fertile negative imaginings and paranoia, endure our tortured memories and traumatic secrets, endure our disrespect for authorities and bitterness toward everyone's good intention . </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pause</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See your body in great detail. Clear it of all past endurances that hurt. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We artists love to create solutions to all of the above. In the late 60's there came into the art stream a group of creators who made Body Art. Many of us used endurance as a primary material for our work. Some of the reasons might be:</span></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That endurance was a reaction against the linearity and dogmatism of minimal art.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That endurance artist were interested in leaving the world of buying and selling art, making our work for each other, for ourselves, not for slick documents, mindless magazines, judging audiences or uncaring strangers.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That artists publicly used the drugs of the day: marijuana, hashish, LSD, and peyote, drugs that allowed them to hang out and endure for long periods of time in trance and altered states, as art. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That the women’s' movement and civil rights movement inspired artists to experiment with issues of sensitivity training and consciousness-raising, as art.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That the artists of the 60's formed deep bonds with both eastern spiritual teachers and with American Indian elders who helped us see and feel new ways of honoring and appreciating our bodies and the earth. These wise teachers taught us self-initiatory and risk-taking rituals which could be used to mark important passages. They introduced us to death-defying actions, risk-taking attitudes, and important maturity retreats. Later, once we learned from them, we translated the teachings into our performances. Now reality TV’s soulless translations of our experiments mirror our work but miss the inner meaning. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div></li></ol><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then there was the division around gender. How did women endure? And men? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance art became the art of choice for women artists in the 70's since it offered a fluid, intuitive, healing, versatile, spontaneous and dynamic method akin to the physical vigils and endurances that women perform at childbirth and in the act/art of child raising. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some women who endured: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faith Wilding waited; Nancy Youdelman exaggerated; Judy Chicago healed; Carolee Schneemann liberated; Hannah Wilke exposed; Eleanor Antin satirized; Mierle Ukeles respected; Annie Sprinkle shared; Karen Finley raged; Suzanne Lacy aged. All of these women used time and material in new ways, courageously forging ahead of a tired system of painting/sculpture current at that time.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Men also played with time and initiated themselves but somewhat differently. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph Beuys wrapped; Tehching Hsieh deprived; Chris Burden crucified; Stelarc hung; Terry Fox cured; Richard Long walked; Vito Acconci yanked; Tom Marioni drank. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And not to confuse the issue, what about couples? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alex and Alyson Grey processed; Marina Abromovic and Ulay stared; Barbara T. Smith and Vic Hendricks embraced; Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh got roped. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pause</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can you imagine how you would initiate yourself into a life passage? Write it, sing it, perform it, keep it secret but by all means BE SAFE! Or join an invisible Internet community where travel, audience and applause are non-existent. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conclusion:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My father once told me after listening to me complain about insurance prices "Life is hard enough. Don’t make hard things harder." And in his yearbook his legacy is someone who makes difficult things seem easy.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By practicing endurance, possibly we can prepare in a strong way for times when we need to be even stronger.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*********************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Audience and the Art of Linda Montano 1999</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In September of 1999, Montano was invited to perform as an Art/Life Counselor at an art symposium sponsored annually by SUNY New Palz. Montano had an Art/Life booth and gave away copies of this paper, which was written for the occasion.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Audiences have always been an important component of the performance practice I began in 1965. To better understand the purposes and scope of my own work and its relation to audience, it is necessary to first lay a foundation. To do this, I will do the following:</span></div><br /><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Define the term audience.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explore Aristotle’s theory of catharsis as it relates to tragedy</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explain the four types of brain waves</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look at the parameters of performance art in general</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Construct the interface between selected performances from my 33-year career and their relation to audience</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dictionary Definition of Audience</span></div><br /><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Audience: a hearing, listening group.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those assembled to see or hear a concert or play etc.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those who listen to a radio program or view a television program.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those who pay attention to what one writes or says, one¹s public.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The act or state of hearing. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The opportunity to have ones ideas heard. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A formal interview with a person in high position, especially with a sovereign or the head of the government.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">II. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aristotle’s Theory of Catharsis as it Relates to Tragedy</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The purpose of tragedy (or in my case, some of my performance practice) is to arouse pity and fear and affect a pleasurable catharsis or purging of these two emotions. Although Plato felt that tragedy weakened the viewer emotionally, Aristotle chose the path of purging, listing a few ways to proceed:</span></div><br /><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Medical Purging: (vaccination theory) Because pity and fear are often present in excess, by applying more of the same there will be a homeopathic release, restoring the viewer to emotional balance; using snake venom to cure snake bite.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vicarious Experience Theory: Viewers take vicarious pleasure in experiencing emotions without being harmed personally.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadistic Theory: Subconsciously we enjoy seeing others suffer although in theater it is not real; conversely in performance it sometimes is real. Others suffering elicits a feeling of superiority to the sufferer. Power politics is at work here.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="4" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Relief Theory: Although we identify with a character in a tragedy, we also take pleasure when the drama ends, convinced that their ordeal is much worse than our own so we leave relieved and transformed. This is the “art is good medicine” theory.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">III. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explanation of Brain Waves</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Millions of brain cells communicate with each other by emitting tiny electrical impulses. This day/night activity can be registered as oscillations (brain waves) by placing electrodes on the scalp and displaying the brain waves on a computer. The brain oscillates at different frequencies depending on the state of consciousness. The four brain waves are the following:</span></div><br /><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BETA: 13-36 oscillations (waves) per second (Hz). This is the normal waking state associated with thinking, problem solving and living in daily life. Stresses oscillate the brain at higher numbers (20-36 Hz).</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALPHA: (8-13 Hz) The wave of rest, relaxation and conscious awareness, although it is also the wave which bridges entrance to lower frequencies.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THETA: (4-8 Hz) The brain wave of small children, adults dreaming, or drowsiness as well as strong emotions. Theta increases during deep memory work in therapy or during the surfacing of repressed feelings, although Alpha waves need to supervene to translate the material into insight and creativity.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="4" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DELTA: (o.5-5 Hz) These waves appear in sleeping adults and newborns. The slow rhythms are associated with basic survival issues. During rebirthing therapy, Delta is noted when clients relive their birth. Delta is the site of the collective unconscious and when in collaboration with Alpha, becomes inner intuition, empathetic radar or the sixth sense.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IV.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The General Parameters of Performance Art</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since 1965 I have practiced performance art, a slippery and generic title that essentially defines art which belongs to the family of painting and sculpture but when practiced in real time, with real bodies, can be more permissive, transgressive, healing, transpersonal, combative, autobiographical, dangerous, raw, primal, political and shocking.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance was the disturbing relative of disembodied fine art. As practiced by first generation artists of the 60’s and 70’s it took incredible risks that not only stretched the artist-practitioner with its content, fantasies, dreams and neediness but also surprised audiences. In so doing, it became an art for the brave. It instructed, infuriated, bored and nourished the audience. Who would do this kind of non-right-wing, unable to be funded, on the edge kind of work? Actually, those you might expect; because early performance was by and for women, the transgendered, people of color, the survivors of the atom bomb, the disenfranchised, ethnic minorities, the ill, the non-commodified, mystics, gays and lesbians, risk takers, by and those sensitive men willing to be vulnerably present.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What about audiences? Art has always been a dialogue, first with the artist and their muse, then the artist and the idea, then the artist and their material, then the artist and the performance or object, then the artist and their audience. What makes performance art more demanding for the audience is the phenomenon of presence – the presence of the artist, right there -- the artist who often does things which are so different from the expected that it takes a great deal of attention, care and wrestling with the demons of correctness and manners to be a performance art audience member.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The initiation process of belonging may include being spattered with blood, urine, feces, oil or dirty bath water. Ears might be attacked with invective words shouted decibels above hearing range. Eyes might be forced to view breasts, cellulite, drool or undigested/digested tuna fish. Audiences¹ bodies might be caressed with other bodies, feathers, flying debris or a warehouse of out of control materials. Audiences might have to walk miles to be included in an outdoor piece or stay cramped in a small space with other equally effusive armpits. Audience members have had to make life/death decisions, cross the non-existent proscenium and take away knives, guns, razors, scissors or put out fires to ³rescue² the performing artist who is practicing³intervention² art, a practice that is based on the kindness and intervention of audience members for its termination. (An early 70¹s phenomenon, Thank God!) In short, the Performance Art Audience Member, or PAAM, is invited to not only be there at the event, but to become a performance artist themselves by virtue of attendance and survival of the event. The initiation is that simple, be there, live and earn your title.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But why, you might wonder, would the artist or audience endure such a demanding use of their time and energy? My belief and experience has been that I continue in this profession to get high; performance is a cheap drug, and cheaper therapy! But it also has a nobler purpose; one of transformation, for its ability to change brain waves makes it a preparation for meditation. The performative state builds a bridge between the conscious and unconscious, and often the super conscious; sometimes during but often after a performance, a drowsy/dreamy feeling, which is in full contact with clear, conscious awareness, is experienced by the artist and the audience members. The EEG pattern is a mixture of Alpha and Theta waves (8 Hz) with Alpha reflecting conscious awareness and Theta signifying subconscious activity, and that is a fantastic balance.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By aesthetically/chemically purging subconscious material, by suffering publicly, by exposing excesses of power, by exploring homoerotic images and desires publicly, the storehouse of hidden fear, guilt, rage and isolation gets cleaned out as art and the brain takes a chemical holiday at the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spa of Performance Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. So if you sit still and feel, it’s possible that Delta (infant waves) and samadhi (Delta) states of attention might visit the scene during or after a performance, an Aristotelian catharsis becomes rapture!</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">V.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Selected Performances by Linda Montano and Their Relation to Audiences</span></div><br /><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1962-1969 - AUDIENCE AS PLAYMATE In 1963 I performed my first public action by organizing a group of Catholic women at the college I attended. We glued ceramic tiles we made to a large stairwell wall. It's still there. Deepest thanks to Mother Mary Jane, my first performance teacher and mentor of ecstatic improvisation and creativity!</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1965 - In Italy, for my MA show, audience members were given a number at the opening and these numbers corresponded to Italian found objects that they publicly assembled. Audience members became instant artists and I was freed from the confines of the studio.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1968 - Instead of sculpture, my training, I presented live chickens in sculpture cages for my MFA show and performed chicken art in the streets. After these events I was hooked on Live Art.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="4" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1970-1973 - AUDIENCE AS CO-MEDITATOR. After tasting the beauty of yoga and marriage, I began a series of white-faced, white-gauzed, long-term endurances -- lying down, sitting as CHICKEN WOMAN, becoming a performance saint. Audiences watched, meditated with me, went into altered brain waves with me, validated my stillness/silence.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="5" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1976-1980 - AUDIENCE AS CO-HEALER In 1977, my ex-husband tragically died and for two years I mourned him in my art. I could not have survived without the co-healing of those audience members who breathed life back into me as I performed and performed and performed. I am eternally grateful to everyone who consoled me as art.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="6" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1980-1983 - AUDIENCE AS UNNECESSARY I became a resident of a meditation monastery retiring from art, although I did organize skits, plays and performed on the local TV channel but I called that fun. I was in retreat from art and audience.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="7" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1983-1984 - AUDIENCE AS CONCEPTUAL CO-CREATOR Tehching Hsieh was looking for someone to be tied to him for a One Year Performance. Luckily I found him, expressed my interest, left the monastery and spent one year tied to this artist/genius. We vowed not to touch, rode two bikes on NYC streets, worked jobs, and never took off the rope for that year.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="8" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1984-1991 - AUDIENCE AS VOYEUR, AUDIENCE AS CLIENT, ARTIST AS AUDIENCE GRANTOR For seven years I was given a window space at the New Museum that I inhabited once a month for seven hours, for seven years. In that space audience members both watched me from the street, viewed me from inside the museum, came into the window as clients and sat across from me while I practiced ART/LIFE COUNSELING with them, granted audiences, and called it art.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="9" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1991-1998 - AUDIENCE AS STUDENT, AUDIENCE AS ADMINISTRATOR, AUDIENCE AS AUTHORITY FIGURE For seven years I taught performance art as a performance. The students and administrators were co-performers and audience in this experience.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="10" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1984-1998 - AUDIENCE AS COLOR CONSULTANTS, AUDIENCE AS ENERGY MIRRORS For 14 years I performed </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14 Years of Living Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, wearing seven color clothes, one color each year, corresponding with the seven colors of the Hindu chakra system. “Audience” members encountered on the street often commented on my red, orange, purple, etc., ensembles! By experiencing the colors and chakras I embodied, they also felt the effect of color on their own energy fields.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="11" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1998 - AUDIENCE AS ADOPTED FAMILY, AUDIENCE AS FAMILY In 1990, I met Dr. A. M. and Dr. A. L. Mehta, Ayurvedic doctors from India and we mutually adopted each other. I now practice the art of living with them whenever I can. After </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14 Years of Living Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in 1998, I began an experiment, which includes wearing orange clothes forever. I also perform </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blood/Family/Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with my relatives and 86-year old father. This day-to-day cathartic empowering of my inner child has no product, only daily life. I do perform, teach and extend my practice with public events dedicated to the art of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an aesthetically chemical, euphoric state of ecstasy, designed to induce compassionate understanding.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VI. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conclusion</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance art is only for those willing to suspend critical faculties of correctness and culturally imposed paradigms. Join, change your brain waves, be surprised, have an Aristotelian catharsis, but be safe. It is not the 70’s anymore. WELCOME TO THE CLUB!</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VII. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance Art Audience Member Certificate</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PERFORMANCE ART CLUB CARD </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I, __________________, am a life-long member of the Performance Art Audience Club. I vow to perform/view actions beneficial to others and myself.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*******************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Performance Art Timeline (Roselee Goldberg)/Thoughts on Performance Art (Linda M. Montano) 2000</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano wrote “A Performance Art Timeline” in response to Roselee Goldberg’s seminal history of performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Revised Edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., Publishers 1979, 1988. Goldberg’s book was the first of its kind to establish the avant-garde, historical precedence for performance art. Along with many other artists who worked primarily in performance, Montano was tremendously influenced by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The piece, which has not yet been performed, is a type of litany call/response that Montano wrote in homage to Goldberg’s book. What follows represents Montano’s subjective response to certain people, events, and manifestos that Goldberg covered in her text.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 0-Present: Tribal Ritual or Passion Play Page 8.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s natural for performance artists to explore the real, taboo, shocking, raw, transgressive, outrageous, difficult, erotic, durational, scatalogical, penitential, transformational, autobiographical, subversive, confrontational, brutal, banal, and aggressive in their practice, thereby alchemizing beauty from inner/outer truth. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1490: Leonardo da Vinci dressed his performers as planets and had them recite verses about the Golden Age in a pageant entitled </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paradisio</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Page 9.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It's scientifically proven that performance art alters brain waves and performance artists use this technology to create levels of consciousness conversant with eastern/western mystical theologies. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1589: A mock naval battle, designed by Polidoro da Caravaggio, took place in the specially flooded courtyard of the Pitti Palace in Florence… Page 7.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It's tempting for ex-sculptors and ex-painters turned performance artists to insist that they developed the form. But in keeping with the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arte Povera</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> feel of the practice, it is beyond ownership by any one group or faction. It belongs to all who embrace the permission to create freely. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1638: The Baroque artists Gian Lorenzo Bernini staged spectacles for which he wrote scripts, designed scenes and costumes, built architectural elements and even constructed realistic flood scenes…Page 9.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Now performance art is studied in academia and has been for the last 20 years until administrations tire of having to defend the form or their performance art faculty. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1896: Alfred Jarry presents Ubu Roi in Paris to an antagonistic, fist-fighting, violent crowd when the taboo word "Merdre" (shit in French with an extra r) is repeated over and over. Pages 11-12.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s not fair to write an article on performance art without including futurist performance artists, constructivist performance artists, Dadaist performance artists, surreal performance artists, Bauhaus performance artists and all other forbearers of the form like the Japanese Gutai, and Viennese Actionists. And of course there are Christian penitents, American Indian elders, African healers, Eskimo shamans, Hindu yogis and countless other legacy holders and mentors of the form. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1909: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Futurist Manifesto</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an attack on the establishment values of the painting and literary academies. Marinetti performed actions at Trieste, the pivotal border city in the Austro-Italian conflict, designed to support the Italian intervention against Austria and to celebrate the industrial age with its machines. Pages 12-13.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s possible that Consciousness Raising (CR) might be seen as the most powerful cultural force shaping performance art when a feminist theorist analyzes the form. Other art writers might include the influence of the holocaust, drugs, bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, the popularization of psychology, Vietnam, accessibility of the media, technology, existentialism, Buddhism and new sexual permissions. Points of view are determined by the defining experiences of each viewer of the form. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1913: The Futurists embraced the symphony of the machine: Noise instruments (Russolo), noise music (Protella), body actions based on machines (Balla), marionettes (Clavel), synthetic actions and simultaneity were some of the components of futurist ideology, an art that spanned the years between the first and second world wars. Pages 20-24.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It's been stated elsewhere that early performance that explored the body via task, endurance, vulnerability, psychology, presence, difficulty, taboo, permission, intimacy, and sexuality not only compromised the audience's safety, nerves and sanity but also confer the status of "performance artist" on them by virtue of their ability to co-create with their presence. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1920: Petrograd, the third anniversary celebrations of the October Revolution in Russia. In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Storming of the Winter Palace</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 8000 citizens, army trucks, huge platforms, 125 ballet dancers, 100 circus artists, a red and white army, an orchestra of 500,fireworks, and spotlights on the palace, were included in this large-scale spectacle. Page 41.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s sometimes the case that "relics" of performance art are as important to the art world as the actions that created them even though commodity was never the focus or reason for the practice, process was. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1923, the Blue Blouse Group, Russia. Huge posters were placed on the stage with holes cut out for heads, arms, legs of the actors...reciting texts based on controversial political and social events...Pages 46-48.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Practitioners of performance art want nothing to do with high art. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1905. Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Wedekind of Munich would urinate on stage. According to Hugo Ball, he also induced convulsions in his arms, legs and even his brain. Pages 50-53.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Performance art's ability to de-automate the artist and viewer makes it a worthy vehicle of mystical technology. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1916: Hugo Ball and Emily Hennings founded the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, a cabaret where Ball performed his new species of “verse without words” or “sound poems” sometimes dressed in a huge cardboard costume. Pages 55-61</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It's always been an understanding that performance artists avoid the marketplace and prefer the stance of non-elitist presence in real-time. Dialogue might be ordinary speech but the intention is always transformational. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1916-1923: Dada (which means yes in Romanian, rocking horse in French, baby carriage in German) was a cabaret art that questioned authority. Hugo Ball wrote "Our spontaneous foolishness and enthusiasm for illusion will destroy...what is deemed culturally respectable." Page 62.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Performance art is an art of simple, spare, and curt actions, a Dionysian echo of the minimal/conceptual Haiku of the 60's and 70's. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1925, Paris: In the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Surrealist Manifesto</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, André Breton wrote that surrealism rests on the belief in the higher reality of certain hitherto neglected forms of association, in the omnipotence of dreams.... Page 89 </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s not good taste that determines performance artist's decisions but in time, those Avant Garde bad taste decisions, become "good taste". </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1925: In Picabia's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Relâche</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Duchamp played Adam, nude.... a fireman poured water endlessly from one bucket to another. Page 92. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s virtually impossible to outline the history of performance without writing a series of books about the many facets of the practice and even then, the task is nervous making because some names will be forgotten, artist friends always will be remembered, dates might be miscalculated, concepts juggled, events doled out to the wrong performance artists, in the incorrect century even, wrong city....a frustrating exercise in imperfection but a necessary one. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1919: Gropius’ romantic Bauhaus Manifesto called for the unification of all the arts in a “Cathedral of Socialism.”... Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, and Schlemmer took up residence in Weimer to form a self-contained community within the conservative town. Page 97.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s proven that ritual effects brain chemistry and the endurance and mystical aspects of performance art have been known to induce trance not only in the performer but also in the performance art audience. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1919.The first performance art course taught by Oscar Schlemmer at the Bauhaus insisted on synthesizing art and technology in "pure forms.” Students came to the Bauhaus to be cured of the prevailing Expressionist style. Pages 98-99.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s been researched and scientifically authenticated that we all need relationships to thrive and performance art provides for a tribal connectedness often missing in families, churches and society. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1922: Schlemmer's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Triadic Ballet</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> lasted several hours and was accompanied by Paul Hindemith's score for player piano. This "metaphysical review" used three dancers who wore 18 costumes and danced 12 dances. Pages 111-112.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s not only on the east and west coast of the United States that performance art flourished in the 60's. Wherever the disenfranchised, marginalized, and courageous lovers of chance, truth and process happen to be living, performance art will be there also. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1927: The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Slat Dance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, performed by Manda von Kreibig, included a constricting, visibly fascinating costume of long slats of metal and glass. Her dance was the constricted movements and sound of the slats hitting each other. Pages 106-107.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Many performance artists have a ball exploring persona, personality and archetype changes, gender manipulations and cross costuming whenever possible, Halloween being one of the holidays they remember from childhood with great fondness. </span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1928: Wassily Kandinsky designed visual equivalents to Modest Mussorgsky's musical phrases, using movable colored forms and light projections. Page 111.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s non-productive to judge self-inflicted and destructive performative actions as acts of irrepressible non-responsibility when actually they are highly orchestrated shamanic/prophetic technologies of aesthetic mystics. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1933: John Price opens an art school near Black Mountain, North Carolina, which would come to be called Black Mountain College. Twenty-two students, nine faculty and Josef Albers of the Bauhaus comprised the faculty. Page 121.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s been essential for many performance artists to break down the separation between art and life so as to claim every second as LIVING ART. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1936: Albers invites Bauhaus colleague Xanti Schawinsky to teach "stage studies"(visual theatre). In Schawinsky’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Danse Macabre</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,the audience was dressed in cloaks and masks. Page 104.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s imperative to remember that performance artists were insistent on being released from the fine art traditions of classical European history. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1937: Cage wrote in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Future of Music</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Whether the sound of a truck at 50 MPH, rain or static between radio stations, we find noise fascinating." Chance, indeterminacy, non-intentionality were principles derived from his studies with Dr. Suzuki. Page 123.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Performance art is a practice of simple, spare, curt actions performed by divine radicals who are gifted enough with the ability to manifest subconscious fears, dreams, negativities and fantasies so that they clear their own and the audience's minds and bodies of daily worries. Once released and relaxed, the artist and audience become one breathing protoplasm. Intimacy is born. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1948: Merce Cunningham and John Cage collaborate using found and chance movements and sounds. The ordinary and everyday become matter for art. Page 125. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It's the nature of performance art to be disposable. Once the artist’s body/mind is stretched, exercised, exorcised and cleared, the art is over, never to be seen as important in and of itself except as a vehicle for higher consciousness and inner contentment. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1953: At Black Mountain College, there was an "anarchic event;” staged by Cage and Cunningham that was essentially a collaboration with film clips projected on the ceiling, babies screaming, coffee served, a dog, poetry read and other collaged elements. This became the prototype for American performance art. Pages 126-127</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s plausible to assume that an artist can switch from a western-based art making practice, to non-western art, to performance art, to ordinary/secret/hidden everyday life to death, all in one lifetime. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1956: Cage teaches experimental music at the New School. Kaprow, Higgins, Brecht, Dine, Mac Low and many others attend. Page 127.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: It’s not skill or technique or fame, which interested the 60's performance artists, rather a non-commodified rawness and subconscious unearthing of mystery was their passion. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1960: Yves Klein exhibited an empty gallery as art, rolled models in blue paint, painting with them and leapt from a building (Klein’s</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Leap Into the Void</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was actually a retouched photo). Pages 144-147.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Theories of chance, Buddhist spaciousness and disillusionment with authority informed Happenings and subsequent performances. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1961: Joseph Beuys becomes professor of sculpture at Dusseldorf University and “encouraged students to use any material for their work…His lectures became his art.” Page 150. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Now, performance art theory has been learned, practiced, commodified by the media, popular culture, and everyone with a video camera, access to a chat room, or spot on reality TV. They are the new “performance artists." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1963: Charlotte Moorman organized the first Avant-Garde Festival, a venue for composers and performance artists. Page 133.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Life is art. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1964: Carolee Schneemann performed Meat Joy in Paris, and, used “the blood of meat carcasses instead of paint to cover the performers' bodies." Page 138.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Life is art. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldberg: 1970: In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conversion</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Vito Acconci attempted to hide his masculinity by burning his body hair and pulling at each breast. Page 156.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montano: Life is art. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**********************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance Art for the 21</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.2pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">st</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Century 2000</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This poem, taken from the Linda Mary Montano Archive, was written on the occasion of the change in millennium. It has not been previously published.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">robotic performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">web cast performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">surveillance performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">internet performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">homebound performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3-D fax performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">monitored performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anti-terrorist performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">healthy eating performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">millionaire performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">implant performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">elder performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">video-to-computer performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">healing performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">space shuttle performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cloned clones performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">grafted tissue performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">virtual reality performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bionic performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e-mail performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">neo-Neolithic performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">chat-room performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">interactive TV performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ebay performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">corporate capital performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">smart chip performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">portable gym performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">genetic engineering performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">spiritual fusion performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">global communities performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">chakra balancing performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">robotic companion performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hormone enhancement performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">equalization of capital performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">antitheft transmitter performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">laser sculpting performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">multicultural fusion performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">financial philanthropy performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">personalized TV performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">online healing performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">voluntary poverty performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">disable performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">legal jurisdiction performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">adoption performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gun legislation performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">clean water performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vow of silence performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">intellectual property performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">religion of origin performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bionic senses performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bloodless surgery performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creative nursing homes performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">online networking performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">distance learning performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">long-distance telecom performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mood altering clothing performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">self designed shoe performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mood altering furniture performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">integrative medicine performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">universally required karaoke performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">revisionist performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">forgiveness sacramental performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">computer wristwatch performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shape shifting performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pain free illness performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DNA and genetic clearing performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">photon and graviton performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">virtual human actions performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">martial art training in a monastery performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sustainable development performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">biodiversity performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">non violent conflict resolution performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">respect rather than greedy wealth getting performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eco-feminism performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">intimacy safe relationships performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ethical treatment of the disenfranchised performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">earth friendly performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wise and compassionate children performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">disease resistant cellular theory performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">safe food as medicine performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e-book performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">online education performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">online/at home travel performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">free web university performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">net museum performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cyberspace mysticism performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">virtual body morphing performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">implantable computer chip performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">space shuttle vacation performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">children's rights performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">video camera for all performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">past life regression performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lucid dreaming performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">instant transfer of mystical teachings performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pill-less ecstasy performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">maintenance free hair performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">virtual-death rehearsal performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">constant state of mediation performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">everyday life is enough performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cyber cures for loneliness performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">artists become effective politicians performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">live internet collaborations performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">generosity performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">taking care of aging parents performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">living-on-line performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">laughing at everything performance art </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vow of silence performance art</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***********************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Artists/Lifeists 2001</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This piece was written in order to define the term “Lifeist,” which Montano believes is the ordinary life counterpart to the artist.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes trauma or beauty or ecstasy or oppression makes people want to make art. These people are called artists.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes they live with or spend time with or are influenced by others who are called lifeists because they say that what they are doing is not art but life.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lifeists choose not to make art of their marvelous happenings or imaginings or traumas.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="4" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes when artists take vacations from being artists and spend time with lifeists they might not really feel at home because they are hiding their art-selves. Other times they are happy to be with lifeists so that they can drop their art and pay attention to life alone. This might seem frivolous but it isn't. Often it is as nice as art.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="5" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes lifeists make believe that they are artists and want to be on art-like imitations of performances such as a reality television show.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="6" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes artists look at these shows and remind the lifeists that what they are doing is not shamanic enough, not sensitive enough, not aesthetically informed enough, not theoretical enough, not ironic enough, not culturally based enough. Artist then feel proud to be smart and better than lifeists.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="7" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes lifeists accuse artists of hypocrisy and artists then feel guilty, knowing that maybe they really wanted fame and that was as frivolous a motive as the lifeists’ desire for a lot of money from TV.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="8" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes the artists get addicted to spectacle, voyeuristic content, and unchecked homoerotic narcissism.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="9" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes lifeists dress like artists or buy homes where the artists live.</span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><ol start="10" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then often something large and leveling and devastating and terrorizing and humbling happens and it is like an atom bomb, or a Holocaust, or a genocide, or a rape, or a repression, or an Inquisition, or a Crusade, or economic genocide, or sexual betrayal, or bodies falling from the skies, and then sometimes everything stops and for awhile there is only life. Then for a short time, everyone in the whole, wide world, for a short, short time, becomes a true artist of life because of death. And the whole wide, wide, wide world breathes together one silent breath and maybe the wheel begins to turn again. Here? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /><br /><br class="x_gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div></li></ol><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">******************************************************************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living Art: Time Spent Artfully Alone or Not Alone</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This set of directions was originally published in Montano’s book </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art in Everyday Life, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Los Angeles; Astro Artz/Station Hill Press, 1981. It was subsequently published in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angry Women, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">edited by Andrea Juno and V. Vale, San Francisco: RE/Search Publications, 1991.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 1: Purpose and Intent:</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friends often intend to collaborate but rarely find the opportunity. The purpose of LIVING ART is to allow artists and non-artists to designate specific times: hours, days, weeks or months to work and lie, together or alone. This time then becomes ART. The intention of LIVING ART is to redefine relationships by living together in a marathon fashion after having drawn up a mutually workable contract. The contract lasts as long as the ART.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 2: Living Art Defined:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living Art is any work/play which artists/non-artists are willing to perform together or alone. The rules can be determined by the needs of the participants. For example, they may explore silence, fasting, psychic discoveries, eating, basketball, etc in the search for new styles of relating. LIING ART becomes LIVING ART when the times and activities which the e artists perform are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">intended</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be art. The announcement may be public or private.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 3: Time Defined:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LIVING ART divides time into actual time and ART. Actual time is divided in terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. The artists may choose as much of this time as they think they need to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transform </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">change</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Themselves. When it is intended that a specific time together will be designated as time for LIING ART< then that time will become ART and not time.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 4: The Contract:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The contract is an agreement made by the artists before the event. It states that the time together and activity performed will be ART.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 5: The activities:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The activities are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anything</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that the artist/non-artists would like to perform together. These activities, when documented and performed together as ART can change the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">values</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">personal vision</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the artist.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 6: Documentation</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The document of the time can be in any mode comfortable for the artists. Record making should be done </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">without stress</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so that the process of the art itself can be fully </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">experienced.</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 7: Directions For Performing Living Art:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Choose a person/persons with whom you wish to perform LIVING ART.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Select an activity that you would both like to perform.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Draw up a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">contract</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stating what the activities are, time it will be, and place/places.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decide on a mode of documentation for the LIVING ART event.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spend the designated time together and perform the events. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Present the result of your experiment to one of more friends, either with documentation, talking or live performance.</span></div><div><span></span></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-4880804459938450572017-04-11T12:59:00.000-07:002017-04-11T12:59:07.608-07:00A MEDITATION POEM TO BE WRITTEN AFTER A MEDICAL OPERATION<br /><br /><br /><br /><b><i><u> <span style="background-color: orange;">A MEDITATION/POEM TO BE WRITTEN, TALKED ABOUT OR JUST IMAGINED</span></u></i></b><br /><br />AS TOLD TO ME:<br /><br />"I WAS UNCONSCIOUS FOR HOURS. AN OPERATION."<br /><br /><br />AS A RESULT I SUGGEST BECAUSE YOU SAY U R HAUNTED AND TOUCHED THAT YOU WRITE, SING OR THINK ABOUT THIS IN THESE WAYS:<br /><br /><br />I AM <b><i><u><span style="background-color: lime;">HAUNTED </span></u></i></b>BY THIS BECAUSE:<br /><br /><br />I AM <b><i><u><span style="background-color: magenta;">TOUCHED</span></u></i></b> BY THIS BECAUSE:<br /><br /><br />AND AS A RESULT OF BEING HAUNTED AND TOUCHED, AND PROUD OF MYSELF FOR TAKING THIS MEDICAL JOURNEY;<br /><br /><br />I NOW KNOW THAT:<br /><br /><br />Love to you Linda Mary MontanoLINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-3236169941166330122017-04-11T12:51:00.000-07:002017-04-11T12:51:02.790-07:00BBEYOND FILM OF COLLECTED PERFORMANCES ON VIMEO<span style="background-color: orange;">BBEYOND FILM OF COLLECTED PERFORMANCES ON VIMEO</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://deref-mail.com/mail/client/HGqvp03L1OI/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F191861153" id="x_gmail-m_6588466060538208153LPlnk27791" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/191861153</a></div><div>Password: equniox</div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-37519669527141205682017-04-11T12:48:00.001-07:002017-04-11T12:48:30.490-07:00MOTHER TERESA IN LAMOTHER TERESA IN LA<br /><br />MOTHER TERESA CAN:<br /><br /><br />1.MOTHER TERESA, can walk around the space and bless people with HOLY WATER.<br /><br /><br />2. MOTHER TERESA can sing for 7 hours, blessing people's Chakras after each song. Or lay down for 2-3 hours, blessing people via Glossalia.<br /><br /><br />3. Stay in one space, make a circle of flowers, people sit around, lead people into the circle to be blessed by me.<br /><br /><br />4. I lie in state, for 7 hours, flower petals are scattered on my body.<br /><br /><br />5. I am outside the Museum, I give people something to eat.<br /><br /><br />6. I draw people's prayers with my non-dominant hand via drawing their portrait.<br /><br /><br />7. I attend on SKYPE.<br /><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-3000812068529131382017-04-11T12:43:00.000-07:002017-04-11T12:43:07.424-07:00COMPASSION IS THE NEW CURRENCY<div class="_5va4"><div><div class="_6a _5u5j"><div class="_6a _6b" style="height: 40px;"></div><div class="_6a _5u5j _6b"><h5 class="_5pbw _5vra" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}" id="js_1"><span class="fwn fcg"><span class="fwb fcg" data-ft="{"tn":";"}"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/linda.m.montano?fref=nf">Linda Mary Montano<a href="https://www.facebook.com/linda.m.montano?fref=nf"></a></a></span></span></h5><div class="_5pcp _5lel"><span class="_5paw _14zs" data-ft="{"tn":"j"}"><a class="_3e_2 _14zr" href="https://www.facebook.com/linda.m.montano/posts/10212035495943343?pnref=story#"></a></span><span aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"> · </span><span><span class="fsm fwn fcg"><a class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/linda.m.montano/posts/10212035495943343" target=""><abbr class="_5ptz" data-shorten="1" data-utime="1490536916" title="Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 7:01am"><span class="timestampContent" id="js_2">March 26 at 7:01am</span></abbr></a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"> · </span><a aria-label="Shared with: Public" class="uiStreamPrivacy inlineBlock fbStreamPrivacy fbPrivacyAudienceIndicator _5pcq" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-content="Shared with: Public" href="https://www.facebook.com/linda.m.montano/posts/10212035495943343?pnref=story#" id="u_0_b" role="button"><i class="lock img sp_OIDzoK_RdG4 sx_f28af6"></i></a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_3">Sign I saw at Occupy Wall Street: <br /> COMPASSION IS THE NEW CURRENCY<br /> Ulster County NY has so many Compassion Events: <br /> O+ Positive Festival<br /> Healthcare is a Human Right<br /> Family of Woodstock<br /> Peoples Place<br /> Food Pantries<br /> Repair Cafe<br /> Death Cafe<br /> Shelters<br /> Meals on Wheels<br /> Aging at Home<br /> Driving Seniors to Doctor Visits <br /> Many Others <br /> Please add what I have not included here.<br /> Hudson Valley is practicing Compassion</div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-35550930969068681562017-04-11T12:42:00.001-07:002017-04-11T12:42:08.737-07:00MEET ME IN MANHATTAN<strong><em><u>MEET ME IN MANHATTAN: A DAY OF LIFE-ART..</u></em></strong><a class="x_profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/linda.m.montano" target="_blank"><b><i>Linda Mary Montano</i></b></a><br /><ol><li><div class="x_text_exposed_root x_text_exposed" id="x_id_58d7c72e16eaf4f62306378">1. ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL: 1PM Out front<br /> 2. Walk to MARLBOROUGH GALLERY. Women Sculpture Show<br /> 40 West 57th St.<span class="x_text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="x_text_exposed_show"><br /> 3. Bus to Washington Square.<br /> 4. Walk from Washington Square to Christine Finley's WHITNEY HOUSTON'S BIENNIAL 325 Broadway. <br /> 5. Montano: Non-Dominant Hand Portraits: 5:30-7:30.<br /> 6. Bus to Port of Authority , Kingston NY.<br /> 7. Drive to Saugerties NY.</span><br /><div class="x_text_exposed_show">Join for all or part: 845-399-2502</div></div></li></ol>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-28254974638975684442017-04-11T12:38:00.003-07:002017-04-11T12:38:29.557-07:00PAULINE OLIVEROS TRIBUTE LIVE STREAM<span style="color: orange;">PAULINE OLIVEROS TRIBUTE AT KINGSTON CITY HALL</span><br /><br />LINDA MARY MONTANO AS MOTHERTERESA; BHAVANI LEE AS ANGEL; LISA AND KYLE JELLEY, SINGING<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/03/20/pauline-remembered/" id="LPlnk114959" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/03/20/pauline-remembered/</a>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-61813456410307979852017-04-11T12:32:00.004-07:002017-04-11T12:32:41.427-07:00CHICKEN LINDA SINGS THE GLANDS AND CHAKRAS FOR 7 HOURS:CHINA<b><i><u><span style="background-color: red;">CHICKEN LINDA </span><span style="background-color: red;">SINGS THE 7 GLANDS/CHAKRAS FOR 7 HOURS TO GIVE COURAGE TO THE WORLD WHILE </span><span style="background-color: red;">ACCOMPAINED BY THE GLANDETTES</span></u></i></b><br /><br /><br />For 14 years, 1984-1998, I endured and performed, 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART. It allowed me to spend time with the Hindu Theology of Chakras which have informed and inspired my work since then.<br />Because not everyone enjoys the concept of Chakras, I have reworded my interest and now refer to the 7 Glands of the body which EVERYONE shares. This performance is a way to honor the body and also reference the fact that the world needs healing as well as each of us. <br /><br /><br />Hopefully we all will benefit.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b><i><u><span style="background-color: red;">CHICKEN LINDA SINGS THE 7 GLANDS/CHAKRAS FOR 7 HOURS TO GIVE COURAGE TO THE WORLD WHILE ACCOMPAINED BY THE GLANETTES</span></u></i></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For the performance I will:<br /><br /><br />1. Lay in the middle of the performance space on my back for 7 hours, sounding the 7 chakras/glands. I will wear a chicken costume/mask.<br /><br /><br />2. Every hour I will move my hands to another gland and articulate that gland with sound when reminded to do so by the GLANDETTES.<br /><br /><br />3. The space will include a circle of chicken feed which surrounds us. <br /><br /><br />4. Two chickens a male and female or 7 chickens are free to move inside the space and eat the chicken food.<br /><br /><br />5. 7 chairs around me and 7 volunteer GLANDETTES will move/dance/check their email on their iphones or just sit on the chairs for the seven hours. They will wear only one color: for example all red or all orange or all yellow etc depending on the gland they represent. And sun glasses. They will indicate to me to change my focus each hour. So for first hour, the red GLANDETTE will indicate for me to pay attention to the first gland, ovaries-testes. For the second hour, the orange GLANDETTE will indicate to me to pay attention to the second gland, pancreas. <br /><br /><br />6. A projection of a TV station with international/world news plays/sounds for the entire 7 hours.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b><i><u><span style="background-color: red;">NEED</span></u></i></b><br /><br /><br />7 GLANDETTES<br />2 LIVE CHICKENS OR 7<br />MIC FOR MONTANO WITH REVERB<br />7 CHAIRS<br />PROJECTION OF TV PROGRAM<br />CHICKEN FEED<br />MIC FOR AUDIENCE TO MAKE SOUNDS IF THEY WISH<br /><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-21019053640138377002017-04-11T12:28:00.002-07:002017-04-11T12:28:49.787-07:00LINDA AND TOBE MAKE A TAPELINDA AND TOBE MAKE A TAPE<br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><div dir="ltr" id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /><br /><br /> <b><i><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">25.a </span></u></i></b> <b><i><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">LINDA AND TOBE MAKE A TAPE</span></u></i></b></span><b><i><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></u></i></b><br /><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr" id="x_divRplyFwdMsg"><div> </div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm845isU5po" id="LPlnk203474" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm845isU5po</a> </div><div dir="ltr"><div id="LPBorder_BVTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g:dj1wbTg0NWlzVTVwbw.._14895182621980.05052940543874285" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14895182621910.6223787109862884" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_ImageCell_14895182621920.3721829260178895" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14895182621920.722783419890259" style="background-color: white; height: auto; margin: auto; position: relative; width: 250px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm845isU5po" id="LPImageAnchor_14895182621920.6603979771333033" previewinformation="5" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" tabindex="-1" target="_blank"><div style="display: inline-block;"><img aria-label="Preview image with link selected. 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We laugh a lot.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="ltr"><b>DESCRIPTION</b>: For over 20 years this happened over three times a week. Tobe Carey is a master video artist and has allowed me to sit next to him for all of these years, sharing his wisdom and skills with me. We made many, many, many tapes. And I fell that I said all that I wanted to say and in 2016 we "retired." Sometimes our conversations went like this. Listen and enjoy.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>YEAR</b>: 2016</div><div dir="ltr"><b>TIME: </b>15 min</div><div dir="ltr"><b>CREDITS:</b> LINDA MARY MONTANO &TOBE CAREY Editing</div></div></div></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-36438945778678840502017-04-07T15:12:00.001-07:002017-04-07T15:12:12.369-07:00MOTHER TERESA POSSIBILITIES FOR LA<span style="background-color: orange;">MOTHER TERESA IN LOS ANGELES MUSEUM:</span> <br /><br />1. LINDA as MOTHER TERESA: Walking around the show inside and out, giving blessings and Holy Water to everyone she meets. Assistant is there carrying a briefcase or walkie-talkie , looking official.<br /><br />2.For seven hours I lay down on the floor and sound each chakra, one chakra for every hour. After each hour, the assistant helps me get up from floor and I bless anyone there for the Chakra that I am making sounds about. Need sound system, reverb, a projected video of newscast for 7 hours. Chair for assistant and table for her also.<br /><br />3.I lay in a circle of flowers on a bed or chair or lounge. Time is indicated by Curator. Three or seven hours. People sitting around me in circle. Assistant brings people into the circle to receive blessing. Video projection of breastfeeding Mother and Infant. <br /><br />4.I lie in state in a circle of flowers. Faure's Requiem plays for 7 or 3 hours. People are given flower petals and they place them on my body. Assistant helps them come into the circle.<br /><br />5.. I am sitting in a 14 foot lift. I wave to people either as they enter, outside the museum, or inside the museum. A circle of flowers around the lift. Time determined by the curator. People brought close to the lift and I drop flower petals on them.<br /><br />6. I draw people's portraits with my non-dominant hand. Assistant brings them inside the circle to a chair. Need 2 chairs and a table and flowers for circle.<br /><br />7.Mother Teresa and Assistant outside the Museum giving people "something to eat" as they enter the Museum. What? Blessed fortune cookies?<br /><br />8.Linda as Mother in lift or not, singing Linda Ronstadt songs for --------------- hours. Need sound system for projecting Linda Ronstadt CD and sound for me with reverb. This can be done in the lift as well. Assistant brings audience to a separate mic so they can sing along with Linda Ronstadt as well. (Her first album). So need that mic as well.<br /><br />9. Mother Teresa sits on a chair. Assistant brings people one by ne to come and hold her hand. Projected CHICKEN VIDEO for duration. They get a Holy Water Blessing at the end.<br /><br />LINDA MARY MONTANO, APRIL 2017<br />LINDAMONTANO@HOTMAIL.COM<br />845-399-2502<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-41967012657789021382017-03-16T12:58:00.003-07:002017-03-16T12:58:26.161-07:00FILM DESCRIPTIONS: RETIRED FROM VIDEO 2017 LINDA MARY MONTANO<div><br /></div><div><div dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><span style="color: orange;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br class="x_Apple-interchange-newline" /><div><div dir="ltr"><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: "calibri" ,"arial" ,"helvetica" ,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: orange; color: black;"><br /></span><div><div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_docs-internal-guid-e0d9296e-a321-cb4a-9328-a2012a587551" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: orange; color: black;">A COMPILATION OF FILM DESCRIPTIONS/I HAVE RETIRED FROM MAKING VIDEOS; 2016 </span></span></b></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr"></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: orange; color: black;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></span></b></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">THE FILMS:</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the snowy winter of 2015, a brilliant angel woman appeared at THE SAUGERTIES ART LIFE INSTITUTE/TRANSFIGURATION HOSPITAL. Her name is Ryan Baltor and we dug deeply together into 40 years of my films with the intention of bringing order, description, and celebration to a career that my good inner-voices told me to end in 2015. Verbally communicating the story of each video to Ryan has been not only confession but a kind of summation of my ART/LIFE history, and a chance to re-live and re-love my process. Ryan became an Art Dula, compassionately birthing from my mouth, my life, and as a result, clearing the way by celebrating my Film Children. There are many of them, and we generously give them all to you now. They are on their own, they’ve graduated, they’ve paid off their debts, their college tuitions, and are free (via you tube), having decided after Occupy Wall Street that the new currency is not money but compassion, and that the most compassionate thing I could do with my work, after having spent blood, sweat, and tears is to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> give</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> it to you, free of charge. Included in this compilation are seven videos by other artists: Denali Abrams, Tobe Carey, Maida Barbour, Nancy Donskoj, Diane Dwyer and Goddard College at Port Townsend.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Ryan, when you are 99 years old, make sure you show your friends one of your favorite videos from our collaboration together, the snowy winter of 2015.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TRIBUTE TO TOBE AND MEG CAREY</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I would like to thank my collaborator of 20 years, the incredibly gentle, patient, intelligent, generous and creative video artist Tobe Carey for allowing me to come into his home studio and co-produce probably over 35 films via his willingness to share his creative and technological brilliance. Almost everything in this compilation of films is the result of our time together. When I stand publicly next to a projection of a film, Tobe Carey is standing next to me, literally or figuratively. Whatever it is karmically that brought us together, whatever it is aesthetically that allowed us to think together, whatever it is non-competitively that showed us how to create together, I thank. With all due gratitude to him, I also extend warm applause to his wife, Meg Carey, who greeted me at the door for 20 years and allowed me into their home. It takes giants of Love, Art and Life to allow this kind of sharing. As my film career comes to a transformative flowering, I use the Zen folded hands of Gasho, the Hindu Namaste and non-hidden smiles as I bow to the God within the three of us. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FILMS by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ALWAYS CREATIVE by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://youtu.be/YMZMZpfsZho" id="LPlnk120515" previewremoved="true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://youtu.be/YMZMZpfsZho</span></a></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="LPBorder_GT_14665415931630.46048421351238816" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14665415931540.518345880999542" style="background-color: white; 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font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">These elders of the Hudson Valley are incredible! Wisdom, humor and a spirit of perseverance are some of their teachings.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upstate New York always seemed to me to be like a British village in a 1500's historical novel, filled with fantastical elders whose bravado, courage, outrageous-ness, creativity, fearless appetite for life, stunned me with its mentoring. You must remember that all of the 12 elders in this film were born before-computer, before-television, before-internet, before-facebook, before-twitter. These phenomenal storytellers give facetime with gusto, with proverbs, with expression, with generosity. These 12 elders shared outrageous opinions, phenomenal stories, helpful advice, and allowed me to glimpse their past as if walking backwards through time. Maybe it’s because I grew up with daily visits to my outrageous outsider-artist grandmother, and wanted to continue learning from ancient wisdom, maybe that’s why I found these women and men of courage, wanting to continue grandmother-time. I invite you to do the same and interview your great-grandmother. She will show you the way.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2003</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:02:44</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With gratitude to all who shared their unique creativity in this video: Dr. Herman Ashe, Holly Beye, Andy Buzzanco, Tony Buzzanco, Luba Donskoj, Dr. Dolores Hull, Vera Jacobs, Dr. Marie Louise Johnson, Dr. Aruna Mehta, Flo Monroe, Irma Sagazie, Agnes Sheff, Cecilia Waage. Special thanks to Anthony and Cindy Montano and Steven Kolpan for their support in making this film possible. Always creative is dedicated to Henry J. Montano, father of Linda M. Montano, and to Bess Allentuch, Mother of Tobe Carey. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ANOREXIA NERVOSA by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Yaxcwo2M7d8" id="LPlnk172618" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/Yaxcwo2M7d8</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When I was 20 I was in a convent and after two years, I realized that I was not emotionally mature enough to be a nun. It's not that I didn't love everything about the life, it's just that I had some unfinished business that needed cleaning up and I was not able to ask for help there so that I could heal and stay. The way I expressed my confusion was to take control of food intake. It seems this is not possible to do while in a convent, sitting at a table along with eight different nuns-in-training, silently watching every move that everyone made. Forks hitting against plates and a voice reading about the lives of the saints and martyrs were the only other totally frightening meal-time sounds. To fix it all, my inventive mind decided to control my food intake and I went from a hefty 135 lbs to 80 lbs. Anorexia became a side job which kept me quite busy... learning how to hide from my mates the fact that I was eating nothing and then doing my chores with great vigor because of the adrenaline high from starving. About 15 years after leaving, I sought out other women with the same issue and made </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ANOREXIA NERVOSA</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, seeking explanation and comradeship in a community of like-mindedness which has the power to heal. This not an art film, but a raw, uncut, unedited look at life.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1977</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:01:18</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Christine Barnum, Diane Bass, Vicky Sutherland, Kelly Doyle.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>2.A TITLE :</strong> <strong><em><u>ANOREXIA NERVOSA by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></em></strong>: </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/WVeDuwc4ywg" id="LPlnk917033" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/WVeDuwc4ywg</span></a></span></div><u></u><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14750942403090.7903109497090639" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14750942403000.5794607256512794" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_x_ImageCell_14750942403010.5405530321781736" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14750942403010.5872050165104823" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: auto; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/WVeDuwc4ywg" id="LPImageAnchor_14750942403030.3741305988522755" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a><br /><div style="display: inline-block;"><a href="https://youtu.be/WVeDuwc4ywg" id="LPImageAnchor_14750942403030.3741305988522755" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14750942403030.9208130711535594" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WVeDuwc4ywg/hqdefault.jpg" style="-ms-user-select: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></span></a></div><a href="https://youtu.be/WVeDuwc4ywg" id="LPImageAnchor_14750942403030.3741305988522755" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14750942403040.6216816786125161" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14750942403040.4690172659830612" style="font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/WVeDuwc4ywg" id="LPUrlAnchor_14750942403050.8568928552744645" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Anorexia Nervosa</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14750942403060.6003073433683401" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/" id="LPlnk984084" previewremoved="true">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14750942403080.9166146564312971" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Linda Mary Montano Talks abouit Food/Anorexia Nervosa</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong> </strong> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>DESCRIPTION: </strong>This is a 12 minute selection from the one hour film of the same name. I talk about my own anorexia story, a story that never really ever ends. Once an an anorexic always an anorexic. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>YEAR:</strong>1977,1981,2012</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>TIME: </strong>11:54</span></div><div dir="ltr"><strong>CREDITS:</strong> David Wagner, Editing; Camera, One of the women I interviewed. Further Editing, Tobe Carey</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ARCHIVE FOR SALE </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOmDVKWJEaQ" id="LPlnk547985" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOmDVKWJEaQ</span></a></span></div><u></u><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14751681662760.5328948350927689" style="display: inline-block; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14751681662700.35860826699876413" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rOmDVKWJEaQ/hqdefault.jpg" style="-ms-user-select: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></span></a></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOmDVKWJEaQ" id="LPImageAnchor_14751681662700.6590624635141621" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14751681662710.9246509133317442" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14751681662710.06512481830793326" style="font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOmDVKWJEaQ" id="LPUrlAnchor_14751681662720.6170523040340418" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Archive for Sale 1 - YouTube</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14751681662730.8082770457720483" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" id="LPlnk644434" previewremoved="true">www.youtube.com</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14751681662750.6397866208873371" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Archive For Sale Part 1 Linda Mary Montano</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Luckily we are all offspring of social media which links us to the superhighway which is global in scope. I took to it easily and hungrily, finding a Facebook community, an email family and way to see/talk with, show work/share with this virtual family of colleagues in a manner perfectly suited to my non-verbal, intuitive personality! So when I need something, I Facebook, when I am doing a performance I advertise on Facebook and email about it. There, things get seen and expressed and the invitations are sent out sans stamps, sans trips to post offices, sans worrying that I am not honoring my work with "exposure." I hear good voices and one said one day, "Sell your archive because you are getting old and all of that work will end up in landfill when you die." That's a great message for a woman artist in her seventies to hear and act on immediately. At about that time, archivists began coming to the attic at THE ART LIFE INSTITUTE in Kingston NY and showing me how to safely "throw" papers, books, PR and videos into appropriate boxes. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ORDER WAS APPEARING</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. The resulting document of the process is: ARCHIVE FOR SALE which is not a film but an advertisement for a product: MY ARCHIVE. I put out to the universe that I wanted to sell it and it happened. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Fales Library heard my call: wanted the archive, drove up in a big truck, twice, and took away 150 boxes of my life-art. How the hell did I magnetize so much stuff to myself? All I know is that I want to pass it on. COME, READ, LOOK, and wear white gloves!</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2009</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:21</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Go to Youtube to access 3 more chapters of this film.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><strong> 3a. TITLE: <em><u>ARCHIVE LULLABY by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></em></strong></div><strong><em><u></u></em></strong></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><strong><br /> <a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/sXQSB5cag_g" id="LPlnk44388" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/sXQSB5cag_g</span></a> <br /></strong><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14750969747850.3810762766745085" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14750969747750.0613823639854128" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_x_ImageCell_14750969747770.4496048883790375" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14750969747770.19234619476429204" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: auto; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/sXQSB5cag_g" id="LPImageAnchor_14750969747780.4441953350106299" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"></a><br /><div style="display: inline-block;"><a href="https://youtu.be/sXQSB5cag_g" id="LPImageAnchor_14750969747780.4441953350106299" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14750969747790.3552924923204097" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sXQSB5cag_g/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></a></div><a href="https://youtu.be/sXQSB5cag_g" id="LPImageAnchor_14750969747780.4441953350106299" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14750969747790.9051113641316392" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14750969747790.17799968126283278" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/sXQSB5cag_g" id="LPUrlAnchor_14750969747800.8274015624930038" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Archive Lullaby</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14750969747820.8027045426859394" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/" id="LPlnk219616" previewremoved="true">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14750969747830.8110794850808731" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">My Fales Libray Launch - 2015 Thanks to Tobe Carey and all on the panel and Fales Library.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><strong><br /><br /><br /> DESCRIPTION: </strong>When a baby is tired or when a lover is stressed and needs comforting, we sing/think "lullabies." Very excited about the thousands of papers and remnants from 50 years of my art-life going to Fales NYU Library & Special Collections, I made a <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.9878376676494938">video</span> outlining the numbered boxes and mentioned almost all of the contents of each box but made sure that I deflected the jealous eyes/gaze and thoughts of any colleagues, friends and detractors who might cast negative eyes my way . How did I do that? I made a lullaby-goodbye <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.27834672877716115">video</span> and used a computer device which tefloned my accomplishments so that aire-bourne jealousy didn't stick on my archive or my newly won euphoria. What I did was to make the <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.4728175547784427">video</span> robotically humorous, animating my face via CRAZY TALK, a computer program that makes mouths and faces and bodies move via technology and not cellular propelling. By adding images of a nursing mother and a brood of hungry, pecking chickens eating in a barnyard, I created an atmosphere of unbridled , celebratory fun.<br />After a tribute to my work via a panel of speakers: Kathy Brew, Linda Weintraub, Martha Wilson ( Britta Wheeler& Miss Toni Silver as Wilson) and Karen Finley, I showed this tape and at the end appeared along with Bob Dylan's <em><span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.6825837983619464">FOR</span>EVER YOUNG </em>You Tube, doppleganging his brooding beauty and hoping that I could approximate the bard's brilliance.<br />By sending off my papers and ephemera to sleep in the vault and storage bins of research-heaven, NYU, I got to say, Good Night, my art. I love you . Sleep tight! <br /><br /><br /><strong><br /> YEAR: 2014<br /> TIME: 7:42<br /> CREDITS: Marvin Taylor, Lisa Darms, Emily King and the Panelists. Tobe Carey <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.5596304930851312"> video</span> editing/animation.<br /><br /> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</strong></div></div><br /><div dir="ltr"><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">A STORY OF ANGEL LOVE </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/qMqEibRVbIk" id="LPlnk52919" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/qMqEibRVbIk</span></a> <br /><div id="LPBorder_GT_14750947653960.9117246705002792" style="display: inline-block; 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text-align: center;"><img height="140" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14750947653900.26016445041082903" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qMqEibRVbIk/maxresdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></a></div><a href="https://youtu.be/qMqEibRVbIk" id="LPImageAnchor_14750947653890.09469273484503554" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14750947653900.9655570014903172" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14750947653900.4809453719144218" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/qMqEibRVbIk" id="LPUrlAnchor_14750947653920.814747033729637" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">A STORY OF ANGEL LOVE</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14750947653920.8615297498386087" style="color: #666666; 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font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div id="LPDescription_14750947653940.6259788920801619" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">ANGELS ARE EVERYWHERE. YAY! YAY! YAY!</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This film is the result of my friendship with outsider artist, Gene Loeb, who said he needed a prompt to inspire him to paint something. Fairy tales have always been easy vehicles for my message, and so I wrote one for him about two children, Samantha and Miguel, who survive bullying, bad treatment at school, and humiliating dismissal by their supposed friends. Talking Angels led them out of big trouble and trees provide solace and places to safely hide their distress. A series of fanciful paintings by Loeb successfully marry and accompany my words, and create an experience for the outer/inner child of 8 or 80.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><strong>YEAR: </strong>2015</div><div dir="ltr"><strong>TIME:</strong> 7:52</div><div dir="ltr"><strong>CREDITS:</strong> STORY by LINDA MARY MONTANO, DRAWINGS by GENE LOEB, EDITING/ANIMATION by TOBE CAREY</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">BENARES by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/2vG10Mgtcwk" id="LPlnk532998" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/2vG10Mgtcwk</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14895198531300.14030739597049546" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14895198531230.1983148431514099" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14895198531240.2962415250208734" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14895198531250.6117497091162956" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/2vG10Mgtcwk" id="LPImageAnchor_14895198531260.28742823596275135" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14895198531260.17110760332072683" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2vG10Mgtcwk/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 187px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14895198531270.16278422821416405" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14895198531270.4857605535389862"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14895198531270.3734748350627015" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/2vG10Mgtcwk" id="LPUrlAnchor_14895198531280.2576809830215512" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Benares</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14895198531280.903674194926009" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14895198531290.3949344242736319" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Death, the last taboo, is one of the most compelling to ponder and understand. Luckily, I was able to go to India and learn from their teachings in 1997.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the late 1990’s, I was a professor of performance art, at the University of Texas, Austin. Luckily, one of the perks of professorship is a travel grant which I used to visit India with my mentor and friend Dr. Aruna Mehta. Also, luckily, the University had a medical clinic that had superior travel information. So I did all of that, made sure I knew how to keep myself physically safe, and set out for one of the most transforming experiences of my life. Although I had not completely made arrangements for places to stay in Benares, they magically came together, and a very learned Brahman scholar in India, made sure that I was able to participate in Varanasi’s theological culture. Please watch this film because I cannot begin to describe the floating dead bodies in the Ganges. I cannot begin to describe the 24/7 burning ghats. I cannot begin to describe the senior citizens waiting to die in the most holy city in the world ; the place where their Moksha/liberation from rebirth is guaranteed. I cannot begin to describe (in words), the evolution from my own Western fear, voyeurism, culture appropriation, to an Eastern understanding of the divine both in Life and Death. This sophomoric attempt to move myself from tourist to one-who-belongs marks the beginning of a journey that is not so much now about death but about Love. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1998 & 2008</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">25:35</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For my friends Dr. Aruna Mehta, Dr. A.L. Mehta. Consultant in Benares: Ratnesesh Pathak. Videographer in Benares: Daffodils Videotec. Sound Design: Chris Erlon, Digital Domain, Austin, Texas. Video Design: Andy Cockrum, 501 Group Austin, Texas. Re-Edited 2007, Tobe Carey, Willow Mixed Media Glenford, CT. Special Thanks to University of Texas, Austin, Department of Art.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. TITLE: <em><u>BOOKS BY MONTANO</u></em></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"><em><u> by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></em></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My already published books are: <strong><em>ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE</em></strong>; <strong><em>BEFORE AND AFTER ART/LIFE COUNSELING</em></strong>; <strong><em>THE ART/LIFE INSTITUTE HANDBOOK</em></strong>; <strong><em>MILDRED'S DEATH</em></strong>; <strong><em>PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TALKING IN THE 80'S</em></strong>; <strong><em>LETTERS FROM LINDA M MONTANO</em></strong> ; <strong><em>LOVE SEX , 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART; and</em></strong> <strong><em>YOU TOO ARE A PERFORMANCE ARTIST</em></strong> . The book titled; <strong><em>MY LAST BOOK: THE SCULPTURES/INSTALLATIONS/PERFORMANCE OBJECTS AND FILMS OF LINDA MARY MONTANO</em></strong> even though it is my unwritten last book, I know exactly what will be included in it and I believe that by putting out to the Great Space what I intend/want, that it is already completed at least energetically . Why do I think that this will be my last book? Because when I receive an inner prompt/voice/suggestion, I LISTEN and that voice said inside me, more than once, "It's time to stop making videos and stop writing books." This makes me sad but I WILL OBEY. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See my archive at Fales Library to read/research these books. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">BREATHING EXERCISES by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/yf1wU717cjA" id="LPlnk550705" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/yf1wU717cjA</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When I was living part time at Ananda Ashram in the 80's and 90's, my guru Sri Brahmananda Saraswati would offer us the opportunity to practice his breathing exercises with him one day a week (I think it was Sunday). I always sat as close as possible to his chair - magnetically drawn by Love. Because he communicated heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind, there were a few of these breathing exercises that he told me I would need later on in my life (although he never spoke that verbally). His message was correct. Twenty years after his death, I developed cervical dystonia in my neck, and when I am attentive to my self-healing, I use many of these breathing exercises, and I thank my teacher for his continued care. In the mid-90’s, I made this film, so that these breathing exercises would be forever documented. I must both warn and suggest that you proceed with caution. This film is only a document, and not a medical necessity. Know your own body, and please obtain your doctors permission to perform the breathing exercises that you observe in this film. As my beyond wise father used to say as I left the house, “Linda, be careful,” and I say to you: " Don’t hurt yourself. Be careful!"</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1995</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">46:51</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Breathing Exercises as Taught by Sri Brahmananda Saraswati, Linda Mary Montano.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">COMPILATION LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/kpVGW0FTUuU" id="LPlnk974564" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/kpVGW0FTUuU</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A few years ago I was watching a TV show of compiled Saturday Night Live comedy sketches. It was brilliant. Laugh after laugh after laugh. Although their takes were quick and finely honed and edited - my version of compiled films is a bit less neat because I linger on some things and rush through others. During OCCUPY WALLSTREET, I decided to distribute all of my work for free on youtube and when I went through the list of things that I had done, I was amazed at the fecundedness of my fertile brain. I made film after film after film and not because I expected anyone to view them, but because my practice is my healing, and they're all about me, for me, by me. So the compilation is a series of short trailers and chance for the viewer to edit their desire to see more. Check it out. You might later want to choose one of my four dozen films on youtube, and watch it in the privacy of your life.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2013 </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">35:32</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edited by Tobe Carey. Special Thanks: Tobe Carey, Meg Carey, Mitchell Payne, Jim Barbero, Mildred Montano, Henry Montano, Martha Wilson, Paul McMahon, Diane Teramana, Laura Biagi, Lisa B Kelley, Elders of Ulster County, Mother Teresa’s Guardians, Marc Rabinovic, Joshua, Father Lebar, All Contributors to this Art/Life.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAKRAPHONICS by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/_L7fKeoCDP8" id="LPlnk521482" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/_L7fKeoCDP8</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896928702120.7878660315505541" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896928702080.044564833486649746" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896928702090.3867850077916857" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896928702090.18278608185712075" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/_L7fKeoCDP8" id="LPImageAnchor_14896928702100.10901563144171056" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14896928702100.34975906582617133" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_L7fKeoCDP8/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 187px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896928702100.5966895227388869" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896928702100.7873418715669345"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896928702100.6649498337757014" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/_L7fKeoCDP8" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896928702110.44689115583706673" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chakraphonics</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896928702110.23829619732350515" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896928702120.5745713286487362" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">CHAKROPHONICS: Based on my performance 14 Years of Living Art 1984-1998, this tape is an interpretation of the Hindu Theology of the Chakras. I thank SHRI BR...</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the most stunning explorations of my work is the film I made titled </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">CHAKRAPHONICS</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It is the culmination of the 14 years that I immersed myself in the Hindu Chakra energy systems as taught by my Guru Shri Brahmanada Saraswati. This hypnotically jewelled film includes the drawings I made, one a year for 14 years...the first 7 with my right hand, the second 7 years, I drew the descending Chakra, the same image only with my left, non-dominant hand. I assume the pose of the drawing as photographed by Annie Sprinkle and Katherine Gates superimposed my drawings on top of the photo images, enliviening each permutation, especially since, in the film, the mouths were computer animated and I seem to be speaking as a live " CHAKRA WOMAN". This rich collage of Chakra information, images and magical color washes along with real-life interpretations of the quality of the Chakra is "offset" by the fact that Jackie Gleason's romantic dating music washes over the entire vision, allowing for an East-West confusion that teases the mind from settling on anything at all! How perfect! </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1998 - 2012</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">45:30</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video Editing - Andy Cockrum, Re-Edit - Tobe Carey, Audio - Chris Erlon, Computer Image Collage - Katherine Gates, Chakra Photos - Annie Sprinkle, Camera - Venae Rodriguez. Tantra Video from Rites of Passage: In Search of the Ultimate Sexual Experience - produced by Candida Royalle, Directed by Annie Sprinkle. India Video - Daffodil Studio. Birth Video - Tobe Carey. Nursing Baby - Prelinger Archive. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">CHICKEN LINDA SINGS or LINDA MARY MONTANO SINGS </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Pj1fwXnUBIs" id="LPlnk707190" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/Pj1fwXnUBIs</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896928700250.8383231372292077" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896928700100.22678867161925842" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896928700170.16482817307740594" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896928700180.1679938351381811" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Pj1fwXnUBIs" id="LPImageAnchor_14896928700200.9664328238404483" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14896928700200.2436942247549605" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Pj1fwXnUBIs/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 187px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896928700210.13126414340101622" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896928700210.30796724033169043"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896928700210.7306061617284856" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Pj1fwXnUBIs" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896928700220.8858922187849731" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Linda Mary Montano Sings</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896928700230.9795939356702508" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896928700240.5338829413574506" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Linda Mary Montano Chicken Linda Sings Performance Art Chickens</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the mid-90’s, I was teaching at the University of Texas, Austin and deep in the second seven years of 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART. The CHAKRAS became my food, my language, my night-dreams, my color schemes, my clothing, and my inner ladder to understanding. Jan Mattox and Lauren Rush are probably the most hermetically pure sound-artists that I know, and they invited me to their almost-literal tree-house in the Redwoods of California to rehearse and later perform in San Francisco my composition titled THE SEVEN CHAKRAS. Eight of us: Jan Mattox, Lauren Rush, Constance Natvig, John English, Timothy White, George Marsh, Jennifer Wilsey, and I bathed in Chakra Sound and approached each Chakra/Gland uniquely and with sonic surprise, allowing me to shine like a star, and sing like an angel, because of their advanced, professional, Good Sound virtual acoustic technology developed by Composer Lauren Rush. This film is from one of the chakras, probably the heart chakra, because I am singing MY FUNNY VALENTINE, which the whole Universe associates with Love. Chickens and Flowers are super-imposed over each other, blending with the love of valentines and life. I am extremely grateful to Jan and Lauren and the Good Sound Band for letting me sing my heart in. I also want to say goodbye to Barbara Lehmann who collaborated with us in THE SEVEN CHAKRAS. This was her last performance. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2010</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:26</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video Editing by Tobe Carey at Willow Mixed Media. Chicken Footage: Fred’s Fine Fowl. Sound: Good Sound Band 1992-present. With: Constance Natvig, John English, Timothy White, Linda Mary Montano, George Marsh, Jennifer Wilsey, Loren Rush, Janis Mattox, Sound Producer: Janis Mattox. Good Sound Virtual Acoustics: Loren Rush. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">CHICKENARAMA </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/CK8y6Z135gM" id="LPlnk544963" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/CK8y6Z135gM</span></a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><u></u><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This film is not Art but a filler to accompany me when I torch-song-sing seven songs for the seven glands. Because I grew up on the American Standards from the 30’s and 40’s, for example, My Funny Valentine and Someone to Love, I have incorporated them into my work for the last 20 years. For this performance, I will disguise myself as Bob Dylan or Paul McMahon and hide behind these great male artists so that I can appear comfortable singing songs from my broken heart, as a woman, but also in a kind of gender-bending atmosphere of mystery. The chicken images/sounds take the burden from my having to have perfect pitch, perfect notes, perfect memory of each word of the song, and comedically fills in that quadrant of the brain that needs relief from the bogus romance suggested by American Standard Songs. I filmed Chickens at two different sites in New York State, but the chicken clucking sounds come from the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Department where I visited chickens in 1966 and was inspired to present nine of them in fabulous cages in a gallery for my Master of Fine Arts final show, 1969. Since then, chickens have become my signature. In fact, I titled myself Chicken Woman after my MFA Show, where I placed chickens so THEY could perform live in outsized, large, conceptual art structure diagonal cages. I continue to work with feathers, live chickens, chicken beds, chicken night lights, angel wings and performances of myself as CHICKEN/ANGEL WOMAN. Problem is, once an artist latches on to a theme, a favorite word, an Yves Klein-ish color, (his was blue), it’s hard to move over, and allow oneself to not be identified as CHICKEN LINDA, having stolen, grabbed, run off with a genius-like solution to finding ones place/fame in an ever-changing art world. So that is my self-critical response to “why chickens?” A kinder, more shamanic take might be to play with the metaphor of chickens as stunted angels, harbingers of new beginnings or as evolved-down dinosaurs, but this is not the place or time for that discourse. GABAWKKKK. GABAWKKKKKKKKKKKK.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"><strong>YEAR: </strong>2016</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"><strong>TIME:</strong>1:OO:27</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"><strong>CREDITS:</strong>CAMERA: LINDA MARY MONTANO; EDITING: TOBE CAREY</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DAD ART PERFORMANCE by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/mYO_-pFvu4A" id="LPlnk380422" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/mYO_-pFvu4A</a> </span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896928703670.4323166152488074" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896928703590.9975436925175598" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896928703600.9408787708583624" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896928703600.9465207005683565" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/mYO_-pFvu4A" id="LPImageAnchor_14896928703610.20437837948604187" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14896928703610.39247335142946626" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mYO_-pFvu4A/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 187px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896928703610.30958442818896414" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896928703610.09421834483566171"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896928703610.1931353825757458" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/mYO_-pFvu4A" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896928703620.8233916625571491" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dad Art Performance</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896928703620.6557274430379534" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896928703630.6927309720561812" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Linda Mary Montano Dad Art Performance</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When I arrived back to New York State from Texas, having been denied tenure, I was given the opportunity of a lifetime. That is, I was able to be with my father and get to re-know him for the last seven years of his life. He allowed me to collaborate with him on video, and we filmed while watching Wheel of Fortune together; we filmed eating linguini and clams together; we filmed him meeting his beautiful woman friend as she picked him up to take him out to dinner. I’m editing out his unspeakable head accident at physical therapy, his fall at home and rush to the hospital with a stroke. But I’m not denying that I hid behind the camera using it as a shield as I became manager of his care at home 24/7 for three years. 400,000 care-givers came through the front door, day and night, and I filmed it all. Not sneakily, not as a thief, but as a frightened bird behind a branch disguised-as-tripod. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DAD ART</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> was the result of my father’s original generosity of sharing LIFE/ART with me and the result of my continuing that process as I watched a kind of transcendence overcome him. No, it wasn't pretty or wonderful but during his illness he exuded the same beauty that he exhibited when he sat in church in meditation. Friends would come into the house at 9 John Street and cry because of the atmosphere that he created: a high-level intensity and vibrational frequency. One of the care-givers was smart enough to remind me to encourage him to paint and he became an abstract expressionist painter who for 1-2 hours a day, sat transfixed as red or orange or black or yellow appeared on the paper in front of him via his Zenned-paintbrush which moved so slowly that I would almost faint with the beauty of his focus. Some of these paintings are incorporated into the film </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DAD ART</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> which premiered once or twice publicly and once with close friends as a funeral memorial service. During the performance of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> DAD ART</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, I sing the seven songs he and my mother would play in their band during the 30’s and 40’s. Also on stage during the memorial-performance there are many different activities and "stations" of symbolic actions: one of artists as counselors, talking to people about death which invites participants to enter the performance space to become co-performers in a collaborative group process. At another station, a collaborator pours glasses of water and hands them out, since water became such an important vehicle of life/not life for my father as he stopped eating and drinking. At the third station, audience members are invited to come to the “stage” and dictate a letter to death who is a collaborator, wearing a death mask. A vibrant, breath of fresh air, exuberant MC keeps everything moving, invites people to the stage, and blows a whistle when it’s my time to sing one of my seven songs. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DAD ART</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Performance/Film is an invitation to anyone who would like me to come and mourn with you publicly as art. I promise, this will not be easy. The <b><i><u>DAD ART VIDEO-PERFORMANCE</u></i></b> is not available except for when I perform it publically. Please contact me privately</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2010</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:19</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks to Steve Barry and Students, University of New Mexico. Edited by Tobe Carey, Willow Mixed Media. DAD ART Performance Requires: 7 Volunteer Performers, Video Projector, Keyboard, Lighting and Audio.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><em><u><strong></strong></u></em></span></div><em><u><strong></strong></u></em> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>12.A TITLE:</strong> <strong><em><u>DAD ART PAINTINGS by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></em></strong></span></div><strong><em><u></u></em></strong> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><strong></strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/r9hExtdYLls" id="LPlnk584136" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/r9hExtdYLls</span></a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a><br /><div style="display: inline-block;"><a href="https://youtu.be/r9hExtdYLls" id="LPImageAnchor_14750956658690.2994406198910301" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14750956658690.869407027988104" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r9hExtdYLls/hqdefault.jpg" style="-ms-user-select: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></span></a></div><a href="https://youtu.be/r9hExtdYLls" id="LPImageAnchor_14750956658690.2994406198910301" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14750956658700.13860359425462493" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14750956658710.5095346324594983" style="font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; 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He had never painted before</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong>: Everyday my father would paint one painting using slow motion , intense focus and great concentration. It was like sitting next to a Zen Master I, being with him at this time and actually many other times during the day because of the deep love and peace that surrounded him. The paintings were like abstract expressionistic studies of life force and exuberant color. Dad was communicating from inside his silent self. May his work inspire others. He was always courage in action, even until the end of his life.</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong>YEAR:</strong> 2006</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong>TIME:</strong> 1926</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong>CREDITS:</strong> SOUND: BRENDHA HUTCHINSON; EDITING: TOBE CAREY; CAMERA : LINDA MARY MONTANO</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DREAM STORIES by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/GYXPlh8_PvA" id="LPlnk457000" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/GYXPlh8_PvA</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896929370460.27441939886799926" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896929370310.9181389521257477" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896929370320.0454122472921914" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896929370330.3789421474905055" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/GYXPlh8_PvA" id="LPImageAnchor_14896929370340.8131482429901558" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14896929370350.5486842873693516" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GYXPlh8_PvA/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 187px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896929370350.11967443572282543" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896929370350.40019941656851965"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896929370350.21676921102922253" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/GYXPlh8_PvA" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896929370370.22269692154731313" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DREAM STORIES</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896929370370.05038847269922764" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896929370450.5344587511034364" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">DREAM STORIES: These are the dreams that I had. Feel the love and transform it into COMPASSION via the DIVINE.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Since 1984, I have been lucky enough to find a human erotic muse who woke me to oceanic boundlessness. I wrote these stories in my forties and I think being peri-menopausal, menopausal, and post-menopausal have tons to do with this film because I know for a fact that women’s bodies push and push and push for that last chance for fertilization. Being hot hot hot is not an accident, or about lust, or even the lust-object, but is more about Mother Nature's invitation to do it now or never have a baby, or another baby, again. I wrote over forty sexual yearning stories instead of conceiving and birthing a child. When I made this film, I disguised the stories with a strange voice modulator so that nobody can fully hear what’s really being said. The actual written, unpublished document titled SACRED SEX /LOVE SEX is hidden/nestled/disguised/lurking in my archive, at Fales Library NYU, for those of you with the energy to find and read it! </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1997/2012</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:07:04</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Produced & Directed by Linda Montano, Camera - Venae Rodriguez, Sound - Chris Erlon, Editor - Andy Cockram. Re-edit by Tobe Carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">DYSTONIA by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/lj9OlegCsBc" id="LPlnk224989" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/lj9OlegCsBc</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another title for this film could have been SICK ART or ART/LIFE because it is my attempt to lighten up, make sense of, expose, explore, and be horrified by a chronic, neurologic condition which I developed in 2006. Not many people have heard of Dystonia which results in spasms, contortions, head turnings and many other strange body-art gesticulations. My contracting/getting/having Dystonia is the reason I did a lot of things: it’s the reason I became/acted as if I were Mother Theresa because I was bent over, not by having served 400 million people but by spasms from Dystonia. Dystonia also was the reason I made the exorcism film because my neck started acting extremely weird in church and I thought I was possessed. “Linda, you are not possessed,” said Father Lebar, Catholic priest and exorcist. But I do spasm, I do have to hold my head up with sometimes both hands, I am in almost-constant pain. Calling out the forces of transformation, calling out the army of art as healing, I relinquished the pity party, the drama, the trauma, the telling my friends that I had a chronic illness, and instead, I wrote my Dystonia story as a fun, cute, feel good, Hallmark Card Fairy Tale, which Jonathan Penz, a home-schooled pre-teened genius reads in all of his innocence. To counteract the kid artness of the film, I include/superimposed on the images, frightening side-effects of the Botox injections which I am receiving. And to counteract the horrors of these side-effects, the words PEACE, HOPE, & LOVE fly through the film as lovely angel-words. My neurologist, Dr. Fabio Danisi is such a sport, allowing his injection procedure to be filmed by his assistant Cindy Miller. As a team of 3, I feel we have shed beautiful light on a terrible plight. Every three months, many Dystonia patients around the world receive Botox injections. I get mine today. Have to go out in this Northeastern snowstorm and buy him a cannoli before I go!</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2012</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5:25</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera: Cindy Miller, Doctor: Dr. Fabio Danisi, Patient: Linda Mary Montano, Story: Linda Mary Montano, Narrator: Jonathon Penz, Video Editor: Tobe Carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ENDURANCE THEN AND NOW </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; 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font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">This is a personal look at Endurance Art of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My last presentation at the University of Texas, Austin, was a slide lecture titled, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Endurance Then and Now, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> May 1998. Recently, I found the print-out of the lecture, and decided to translate it into a film. The new version has a 2015 letter-rant about my addiction to Endurance, and in this letter to myself, I try to correct/tame my proclivities for self-imposed suffering, which I continue to pursue this day. For example, I’ve just completed, at 73 years old, 3 different 7-hour scissor-lift performances, being suspended 14 feet in the air, impersonating Mother Theresa and Bob Dylan, performing sans bathroom break for those 7 hours. Even now, I am still willing to pull out those nasal neti catheters I found in my archive and place them up my nose, just so I can have a fabulous intro for this film; even now, for the intro of this film, I will illustrate this self penance passion of mine by using acupuncture needles as material for my art, sticking them in non-designated and non-medically approved places on my face. I trace my need to endure to Catholicism, to the convent, and in this film there are images of 14 of my past endurances. I wonder why I endure, is it Freudian? Is it spiritually necessary? Is it neural-biologically smart? Is it a reaction against 60’s and 70’s minimalism? This film also references 10 women performance-artists of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s who endured; 9 male artists from the same time who endured; 4 couples who endured; and 2 instances of enduring invisibly via the internet. The film concludes with a plea for less body-manipulation, less gore, less taboo-breaking, and more secret, silent, solitary, sustainably compassionate and kind endurings in the night.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>YEAR: </strong>2016</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>TIME: </strong>26:53</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>CREDITS: </strong>FILM: Linda Mary Montano; EDITING: Tobe Carey</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">FATHER HARTY DRUM CORPS </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/R-5WB7atF78" id="LPlnk698180" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/R-5WB7atF78</span></a></span></div><u></u><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14750963782360.6348889387162312" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14750963782200.13268995529683647" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_x_ImageCell_14750963782210.7368911942983123" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14750963782220.12135261301754463" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: auto; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/R-5WB7atF78" id="LPImageAnchor_14750963782240.35131243089001995" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a><br /><div style="display: inline-block;"><a href="https://youtu.be/R-5WB7atF78" id="LPImageAnchor_14750963782240.35131243089001995" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"><img height="140" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14750963782240.9009001177559723" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R-5WB7atF78/maxresdefault.jpg" style="-ms-user-select: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></span></a></div><a href="https://youtu.be/R-5WB7atF78" id="LPImageAnchor_14750963782240.35131243089001995" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14750963782240.5230341935783906" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14750963782250.9818632596333132" style="font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/R-5WB7atF78" id="LPUrlAnchor_14750963782260.35330946023743265" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Father Harty Drum Corps.</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14750963782270.1656832082115957" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/" id="LPlnk498059" previewremoved="true">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14750963782280.44863081918311903" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">My mother and father were always proud of the Father Harty Drum Corps. from Saugerties, New York. And, so am I.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When I was a child, my father Henry Montano, and George & Dick Thornton created an experience for the young boys of the Saugerties-Glasco area which transformed kids on the block to rockstars. The Drum Corps was named after a beloved priest at the Catholic Church, Father Harty, and the Drum Corps founders transformed the local boys into "musicians" who played the glockenspiel, drums, symbols and trumpets. The boys turned superstars were not only the musicians but also the color guards and drum majors. Their high-stepping showmanship electrified the parents of this small upstate NY village every Fourth of July, and the streets of Saugerties came alive with their brilliance. At that time, women didn't join ANYTHING except Girl Scouts and Brownies, but my mother, the collaborator and artist that she always was, painted shamrocks on military helmets, helped dye uniforms, and turned army green spats into white ankle coverings. As a young girl, I watched it all, thrilled but internally wanting to be a boy! Why not, they had all the fun. This film is a collection of memories from former participants and kudos to my father’s ability to inspire these young boys to become fabulous performers. It is not the place or time for me to ask: why not me? Conversely, I was so influenced by my parent’s ability to inspire art that I continued on my own, and created my own parades, which, even now, in my 70’s, I continue to march in. Thanks Mom, for showing me that art is art and painting shamrocks on helmets, is just as fun as marching in the parade!</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>YEAR:</strong>2016</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>TIME:</strong>30:30</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>CREDITS: </strong>FILM: Linda Mary Montano, EDITING: Tobe Carey</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">17. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">FATHER LEBAR, CATHOLIC PRIEST AND EXORCIST by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/LY9vPHpptNM" id="LPlnk746365" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/LY9vPHpptNM</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2006, I was sitting in church, and my neck started spasming, my head jerked around. I had just seen The Exorcist, and was totally freaked out. I went to my best friend, Google Incorporated, and entered the words: Exorcists in New York State - convinced that that was what I needed. I found Father James Lebar online and he was living across the river in Hyde Park, forty minutes away. Voila, I was in luck!. When I called him, I was surprised how affable and not scary he was, supposing that exorcists would be unspeakably officious. He said we could meet and I insisted that it take place at Burger King, my safe space, and it was there that he told me I was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> possessed but it took me billions of hours of editing footage of him to understand theologically why he said I wasn’t possessed because I got to study the theology of this fascinating subject, demonology. This film is not for the faint-hearted, in fact, none of my films are easy to watch, because they serve as healing for my life at the time, so I invite only those who have an interest in Catholic Exorcists to open the door to this long/tedious/not fun journey into understanding satan’s effect on the human psyche.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">53:28</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2009</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video Interview Recording and Video Editing - Tobe Carey, Video of Father Lebar Reading Exorcism Prayers - Linda M. Montano, Prayer Recitations - Julia Babcock & Jonathan Rowan, Bells - John Grey. Exorcism Prayers from Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans by Malachi Martin. Further Research from Cults, Sects, & the New Age by Father James Lebar.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">18. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">GANDHI DREAMS </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/Pqivz4fPPS8" id="LPlnk187804" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/Pqivz4fPPS8</span></a></span></div><u></u><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14750965771940.7636942536320664" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14750965771870.8352682181851887" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14750965771890.3800077073640743" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14750965771890.7879079908900211" style="font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Pqivz4fPPS8" id="LPUrlAnchor_14750965771900.03217245257713175" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">YouTube</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14750965771900.5773812212898622" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/" id="LPlnk217741" previewremoved="true">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14750965771920.520000117781733" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because of a near-crippling neurologic condition called Dystonia, I found myself quite crumpled over one day as if imitating the body language of Mother Theresa , and that’s how this Persona was born. I become her whenever necessary, and whenever called, whenever performatively invited, that is. As a result of my ability to be others, it’s no surprise that I look for Persona in whoever I meet, and even when I find doppelgängers, I can’t help but suggest that they go to Hollywood and try to get a job as their twin-famous-self. For example, my chiropractor, Marc Rabinowitz looks so much like Gandi, that I had to get the two of us together and create a screen-play for this film titled, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">GANDHI DREAMS</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The screenplay goes like this: Gandi dreams he meets Mother Theresa and she tells him about her 40 years of secret depression, and how she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">herself</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> becomes the poorest of the poor in complete, anguished, inner-loneliness without the solace of her once experienced God. All of this information is made known through letters to her spiritual directors, and of course, she told them to burn the letters after she died, and they didn’t. So, we now know about her four decades of pain. Her recipe for survival was an inner secret which she devised and titled, her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">smile</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. This smile covered suffering. This is important information and I literally created a complex film, just to communicate Mother's techniques! And I found a fabulous communicator of the good news, my friend, from Bangladesh, Faheem Haider, who soulfully/deeply/passionately narrates both dreams: Mother Theresa’s dream, and Gandi’s dream which is a low-key rant about Ahimsa, non-violence, and how we need to practice peace keeping ecologically, economically, medically, and nutritionally. Faheem as Gandi inspires spiritually and sings his remembered Bengali Bahjans in this film, recorded by Diane Teramana, visually edited by Tobe Carey, and sonically edited by Jim Barbaro . I hope I never stop dreaming. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>YEAR: </strong> 2015</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>TIME:</strong> 19:36</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>CREDITS: </strong>ACTORS: Faheem Haider, Marc Rabinowich. CAMERA: Diane Teramana. SOUND: Jim Barbaro. EDITING: Tobe Carey. FILM: Linda Mary Montano</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">19. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">HA, HA: IS THAT ALL THERE IS? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/joieeKNiFMw" id="LPlnk411993" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/joieeKNiFMw</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This film is theology in the raw because I expose the Buddha's old age/sickness/death triad and my own bad hygiene by wearing a tooth guard which has a liquid inside, staining my teeth. Isn't that a worst case scenario for senior citizens who are abashed at the color, size and distortion of their real/false teeth? I offend yet again by singing off key, "Is That All There Is?" but not in good, sexy Peggy Lee fashion; this rendition is crazed and rude. But isn't aging all of that anyway? Isn't age a betrayal of body and mind and a reminder of the ENDGAME? And to make matters worse, I pull out the rug of my own career by listing that I did this and that and had shows here and there but without giving myself kudos or gratitude. This dirge for my past achievements is a Zen slap that says without any apologies, "Who the fuck cares?" This film is a bad hair day on wheels...a fun party, not to be missed. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2007</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:31</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Special Thanks to Peggy Lee, and her inspiration: “Is that all there is?” (written by Leiber and Stoller). Edited by Tobe Carey at Willow Mixed Media. Photographs by Mitchell Payne, Minnette Lehmann, Linda Mary Montano. My apologies to all the photographers whose names I’ve forgotten. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">20. TITLE</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">HANDCUFF WITH TOM MARIONI, 1970'S </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/aWidJUGufcM" id="LPlnk470330" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/aWidJUGufcM</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896930744070.1022697700816273" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896930744030.8350371227670661" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896930744030.981707901084268" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896930744040.07109036494384546" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/aWidJUGufcM" id="LPImageAnchor_14896930744040.32417465832911807" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14896930744050.6799137302540577" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aWidJUGufcM/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 187px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896930744050.979882859278302" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896930744050.5432726638519867"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896930744050.7508516356196373" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/aWidJUGufcM" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896930744060.28051920504867844" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Handcuff</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896930744060.5515508592919835" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896930744070.6242829851749378" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Handcuff - 1973. Linda Mary Montano was handcuffed to Tom Marioni for three days. It took place at his Museum of Conceptual Art.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was the 70's. It was San Francisco. It was a time when performance art was alive and well and hot. Tom Marioni and his Museum of Conceptual Art were the center of it all. I responded and fell in love with the permission and the energy and the ability to reach for and beyond the stars with my intuitive/compelling/creative flights. The male performance artists invited us women and included us and inspired us. I did not smell sexism, at all! My response was to dance on the Golden Gate Bridge, sit as Chicken Woman on the streets of this city of beauty, blindfold myself and live at home for a week and create Walking Clubs and Salvation Army appearances. See my first book ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE for the whole backstory. My husband, Mitchell Payne, photographed me and applauded me and allowed me and encouraged me and said nothing when I planned to be handcuffed for 3 days to the King of San Francisco Performance at the time, Tom Marioni. For inside information about this performance, check out my archive at The Fales Library, New York University.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1973</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16:34</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Linda Mary Montano & Tom Marioni</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">21. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">I DREAMED I WAS MOTHER TERESA: A FAIRYTALE </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/ejeE14qnkIM" id="LPlnk627578" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/ejeE14qnkIM</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fairytales are so forgiving!!! Reason 1: For forever, I have used them to tell believable and unbelievable stories about my art and life, probably because when I was a child, my mother shared her love of books and words by reading us stories that rhymed, before we went to sleep at night. Reason 2: Catholic Confession was a Sacrament that informed and terrified my childhood. I would go into the small, smelly wood cubicle and wait until the priest opened his grated window to indicate that it was my time to tell him my sins. So TELLING became the art that I practiced to un-do and re-do my past. In this film I fairy-tale/tell the story of how I am NOT like Mother Teresa because I am so bad and so addicted to trash TV and so un-ecological, putting myself down as art. What an extraordinary suffering junkie I became! The nuns had held us to very high standards and demanded that we think like the saints, act like the saints, pray like the saints and be good-good-very good like saints so that we could BECOME A SAINT! My films have the smell of irony but also the belief that if I exorcise myself publically, I will re-teach myself the right Way. In the 60's I entered a missionary order of nuns to hasten the saint-process and then left, did the hippie/artist/gender bending way, hoping that would lead to SAINTHOOD. Didn't. Mother Theresa says ,"Do small things with GREAT LOVE." Reason 3: Now, I know that I can't duplicate her, I can't be her, and that I am a Saint just like/along with all of the other 8 billion sentient humans on this planet. This simple "love" has become my practice and my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ATTEMPTED WAY</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Thanks Mother Teresa. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2010</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10:20</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edited by Tobe Carey at Willow Mixed Media. Camera by Diane Teramana. Audio: Mother Theresa Lecture from Philadelphia Eucharistic Conference Servant Cassettes. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">22. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">IRMA SAGAZIE by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/LQnVUti-D9U" id="LPlnk236091" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/LQnVUti-D9U</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of my elder mentors, and actually, a co-performer at senior citizen centers and galleries, is Irma Sagazie. At that time, in her 90's, she had boundless energy, ideas, and a willingness to talk in accents, to act-out as a performance partner, and if I remember correctly, either she or I took her teeth out once or maybe that was my Outsider artist grandmother who only did that! Irma was someone I would drive miles to be with, I would trade another degree in Performance Studies to hang out with , I would buy a used video camera to document her words, her songs, her sermons, her smile. Irma was a Mormon and a Missionary, and her love was really her religion, in fact, her love was primitively ecstatically mystical. I was not surprised when one day I went to her home and although she always sang God loves you songs for me, that day she accompanied herself on a chord organ that she had bought so she could "learn to play piano," and sing her songs with her own accompaniment. Death was not foreign to Irma, and I had included her in another film, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ALWAYS CREATIVE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, where she talked about her life but in this film, she wanted to leave a legacy of spiritual reminders to be played at her funeral. Please feel free to watch this - it is short - it is not Art - it is Life - and you will feel Irma's love in her song. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2009</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:48</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera: Montano. Video editing: Tobe carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">23. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LEARNING TO TALK by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/YAe6MLJLbN4" id="LPlnk856840" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/YAe6MLJLbN4</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Learning to Talk, 1976/1977 was my first video. I was in residence at the Center for Music Experiment, UCSD, and sat for one year in front of an over-sized, technically clunky tri-podded camera in a small room, where I found myself talking to this non-being technology as seven different people. The backstory is that expressing myself with words and telling the truth and feeling the truth needed practice thus the title, LEARNING TO TALK. Did I really realize my goal? Possibly, because I talked/became seven fabulous, successful, outrageously outlandish women from different cultures, different countries, different socio-economic levels, and talked myself into myself, preparing myself for my subsequent work with seven chakras, as these seven people were originating from seven different energy centers inside me. I loved every one of them because they were intelligent, witty, professional, sure-footed, talented, and obviously preparing me to be me! I imitated and mentored from these video people, some of the qualities that I could use later on in life. A footnote from this experience is that one day someone interviewed me as Lamar Breton, my French other-self and I began crying, remembering my time in a French war-torn village. Although I have not embraced or studied past-life technology, I must admit, I do think I was not only once French, but all seven of these personas. I am preparing now to be No-one.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1976/1977</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">45:27</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video by David Wagner, Produced at UCSD Center for Music Experiment Media Center, Made Possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, THANKS TO Al Rossi, Rob Gross, Jim Smith, Ira Schneider, Carrie Wagner, Randy Watson Signe, Coryl Crane, Lester Ingber, Pauline Oliveros, Ilona Thompson, Mark Thompson, Curt Rossi, John Bryant, Terry setter, David Jones.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">24. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LIGHTEN UP by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/wWDu9KHf_LY" id="LPlnk360104" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/wWDu9KHf_LY</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> For seven years, I went to the Ulster County Jail every Sunday AT 10 AM, met with the jailed women, and offered a Christian/Catholic-like church program along with two other volunteers. I began this ministry before the new 400 billion dollar albatross jail, erected on the wetlands, was built across the road. Until then, Ulster County jailed women and men were incarcerated in a medieval madness that even I, in all of my radical allowance, was frightened by. It was like walking into a madhouse. Women held on the bars in their open 12x12 cells that had toilets in view of the guard sitting at her desk, women lived 24-7, in these cages like disembodied Holocaust non-survivors, and in the one horrendous group cell which housed 12 women, probably all menstruating at the same time, there was one toilet almost in view. The place stank of loneliness and pee and blood and the tears of mothers abandoned by families and hidden screams of those wanting to see their children. It stank of holidays gone by and birthdays not celebrated. It was filthy and scary. Like all good fairy tales, things changed for the better when privatization and co-opted jail-making came to town and they built a new bigger and actually more upscale jail across the road. Now the thought was, what to do with an empty building that was once a jail? Artists thrive on these question. So once it was empty and the inmates were moved to Trump Jail towers across the road , it became one of the designated sites for the Annual Kingston Sculpture Show. Curator Beth Wilson asked me if I would like to participate and I proposed a 3-hour laughter performance inside one of the cells that used to scare me to almost-death. I sat there with my dystonia collar on, and asked each participant who came into the still stinky cell with me, to tell me one of their lesser problems and we laughed together as I pointed to my neck and they pointed to their own “problem.” Collaborator Kathe Izzo served a snack outside and counteracted my crazed schzophrenia with a warmth, a smile, a maternalness and elan that was absolutely dazzling. Crazy is Good Art - and Healing a sore spot, or a place that makes one sore (like a jail) is Great Art!</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2010</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:28</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LIGHTEN UP 3 HOURS LAUGHING, Linda Mary Montano with Kathe Izzo and co-performers. For KINGSTON SCULPTURE SHOW 2008, Curator: Beth Wilson. Camera: Diane Teramana. Sound: Public Domain & Jail Performance. Video Editing: Tobe Carey at Willow Mixed Media. Thanks to: Ty Castellaria and all participants. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">25. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LINDA MARY MONTANO AS BOB DYLAN </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/iw9O06JfsC0" id="LPlnk264696" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/iw9O06JfsC0</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This was my first attempt at a Bob Dylan look-alike impersonation, 2008. Look at the hair! Look at the clothes! Look at the moustache! No, don't look but do listen to Bob's music which I am lip-synching , do notice that the film is very short and you MUST observe that the young child with the bowler hat sitting outside, entranced and giving me the energy that I needed to look this messy for the three hour duration, totally gets me. His father said that he loves Bob Dylan and I only hope that my sloppy makeup does not give that poor child flashback nightmares in his teen years! Diane Teramana loyally and generously records some of my finest and not finest performance moments. Gratitude to Ione for the Dream Festival , to the Alternative Bookstore for letting me inhabit their window and to Tobe Carey for helping me keep this edited version of my beginning-to-be-Bob, short and sweet. You gotta learn somehow!</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2008</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:16</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera by Diane Teramana</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edited by Tobe Carey. Performed by Linda Mary Montano.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div></b> </div></div></div></div></div><b>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</b> <br /> <br /><br /> <b><i><u><span style="font-size: large;">25 a. LINDA AND TOBE MAKE A TAPE</span></u></i></b><b><i><u> </u></i></b><br /><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr" id="x_divRplyFwdMsg"><div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm845isU5po" id="LPlnk203474" previewremoved="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm845isU5po</a> <br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_BVTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g:dj1wbTg0NWlzVTVwbw.._14895182621980.05052940543874285" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14895182621910.6223787109862884" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_ImageCell_14895182621920.3721829260178895" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14895182621920.722783419890259" style="background-color: white; height: auto; margin: auto; position: relative; width: 250px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm845isU5po" id="LPImageAnchor_14895182621920.6603979771333033" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"></a><br /><div id="LPPlayButtonContainer_14896941123520.5833995850435225" style="left: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: -20px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 50%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm845isU5po" id="LPImageAnchor_14895182621920.6603979771333033" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><span class="csimg image-play-png" style="color: white;"></span></a></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm845isU5po" id="LPImageAnchor_14895182621920.6603979771333033" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><video aria-label="Preview image with link selected. 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We laugh a lot.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><b>DESCRIPTION</b>: For over 20 years this happened over three times a week. Tobe Carey is a master video artist and has allowed me to sit next to him for all of these years, sharing his wisdom and skills with me. We made many, many, many tapes. And I fell that I said all that I wanted to say and in 2016 we "retired." Sometimes our conversations went like this. Listen and enjoy.</div></div></div><br /> <b>YEAR</b>: 2016<br /> <b>TIME</b>: 15 min<br /> <b> CREDITS</b>: Tobe Carey video editing.<br /><blockquote><div><div dir="ltr"><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: "calibri" ,"arial" ,"helvetica" ,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">26. TITLE</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LINDA MARY MONTANO AS MOTHER THERESA </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/cVPkiN-LYpA" id="LPlnk285120" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/cVPkiN-LYpA</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Young Catholic women want to be saints. We are taught this. We aspire to it and squirm around in our life-skin molds until we either are one or understand what that invitation really means. Since I am an intuitive by nature, I have to experience to know. So after a bout of spasms which are the result of a neurologic di</span></div></b> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote><div><div dir="ltr"><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: "calibri" ,"arial" ,"helvetica" ,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sorder, DYSTONIA, I came out of a crippling position with an inner voice saying, "I feel just like Mother Teresa, all bent over and small and old." Mother Theresa was born that day and was ready to be added to my characters or as we say in polite art talk, she became one of my personas . I made a blue lined sari for her, I practiced getting into the sari for her, I got permission from her nuns to be her and I began showing up as her at the Empire State Building and at other settings. But this first bucolic and lovely coming out film could only happen because video artist, Diane Termana was willing to loan the site of her back yard which is timelessly anywhere/anytime and was willing to use her poetic skill to make me look like, feel and be proud to be in the skin of a saint for 20 minutes. Video artist Tobe Carey, was part of the triune process and brought our collaboration to the screen. Thank you Mother, when I am you I am a Saint. </span></b></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2009</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5:55</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera by Diane Terramana. Editing by Tobe Carey. Chant by Laura Biagi, Linda M. Montano, Audio by Russel Froehling. Mother Theresa Audio from Eucharistic Conference, 1976. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">27. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><em><u>LINDA MARY MONTANO AS PAUL</u></em></strong> <strong><em><u>McMAHON UPDATED </u></em></strong></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><em><u>by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></em></strong></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/PJINVlTNFbo" id="LPlnk718220" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/PJINVlTNFbo</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2008, I found that I could literally </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BE/LOOK LIKE</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Paul McMahon, the magical artist, poet and Woodstock bard who exudes true, flashback 70's-Festival LOVE! I wanted to be him because of his passion to be present and alive and communicating and creative at all times. I wanted to mentor with him and copy him, so that I could be “love” also. I got his permission to imitate him visually, lip synch his poetry-songs and surprisingly, with a few hastily made beard attachments, I was able to do so quite convincingly. To match him even more closely, I bought and used white spray paint made especially for hair and that helped a lot. The performance took place at his MOTHERSHIP GALLERY/home in Woodstock and Paul was there being himself, I was there for three hours, enduring as his doppelganger and friends came and went. Video artist, Diane Teramana, generously filmed the event and video artist, Tobe Carey, edited this film so that I will always be able to enjoy this precious time as long as YOU TUBE allows/exists.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2008</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4:44</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDIT: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera: Diane Teramana. Editing: Tobe Carey. Music: Paul McMahon. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">28. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LIVING ART / DYING ART by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff79M4NB26s" id="LPlnk182040" previewremoved="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff79M4NB26s</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_BVTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g:dj1mZjc5TTROQjI2cw.._14896932724100.20275401566186568" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896932724060.48928517472936983" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896932724060.8070006701629822" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896932724070.9091647950442891" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; position: relative; width: 250px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff79M4NB26s" id="LPImageAnchor_14896932724070.2549211215857321" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14896932724080.14542647191225266" src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.22vMNYDV3TZy-8VO9krgcQEsDh&pid=Api" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 187px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /><div id="LPPlayButtonContainer_14896941655370.6551740626594005" style="left: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: -20px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 50%;"><span class="csimg image-play-png" style="color: white;"></span></div></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896932724080.9252337986434218" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896932724080.18319170480574698"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896932724080.13240682752279587" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff79M4NB26s" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896932724090.2244935093065028" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LIVING ART DYING ART</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896932724090.11129316883502937" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">www.youtube.com</div><div id="LPDescription_14896932724100.08506104842979933" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">My meditation teacher, Shri Brahmananda Saraswati has said, "T.V. has made Buddhas of us all..." That is, we have woken to the fact that we are going to die....</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the late 90’s, on several occasions, I presented a slide lecture which demonstrated the way that my art references impermanence and dying. In 2014, video artist and editor Tobe Carey scanned the slides from the lecture and we collaged together the spoken narrative, images both of my own work and also of death rituals from many different cultures, creating an Endgame-like collage. There are images from my study in Benares at the burning ghats, images from my film, MITCHELL’S DEATH, images of Parsi funerary rites, images of my performances and descriptions of ways that my work and death seem to be close cousins! In this multi-faceted film: I feel, I mourn, I heal, I say goodbye, I teach, I prepare for my final retirement, DEATH. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2014</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">42:44</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Produced and directed by Montano. Edited by Tobe Carey. Sound voice Jim Barbaro, Paul McMahon. Voices: Montano, Hominy and Ginger McMahon. Actor Rich Granville. Special thanks: Tobe and Meg Carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div><strong>28.A. TITLE:<em><u> I'M DYING, MY LAST PERFORMANCE by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></em></strong></div><div><strong><em><u><br /></u></em></strong></div><div><strong><em><u><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/ZgmRLoGbZjs" id="LPlnk981707" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/ZgmRLoGbZjs</span></a></u></em></strong></div><strong><em><u></u></em></strong><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b> </div><div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><br /><br /> DESCRIPTION: </strong>Once I read a story about Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche in a book by death-teacher, Steven Levine. It goes like this. Trungpa went into his son's room and said to him, " I'm DYING." And then he said to his son, "You are dying too." <br /> This story made a deep impression on me because death is the last taboo, the hidden boogey-man, the unspeakable, What a beautiful lesson in impermanence this father gave his son.<br /> As I age, not so gracefully, I keep thinking and saying inside, "Linda, you are getting close to dying." But this is not done <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.11470952650629773">for</span> spiritual teachings <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.2104309367936547">for</span> myself but as a prompt to terror and fear. So, of course, I decided to make art about this sentence and will say to myself, AS ART, "I'm DYING " whenever I feel the urge to frighten myself. Art heals, you know, even this rinky-dink <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.43031340405713136"> video</span> of myself, mouthing the words. But someday I will say I 'm dying and it will be really true and if I have done this performance correctly, I will go towards the light with gusto.<br /><br /><strong> </strong><br /><br /><strong><br /> DATE:</strong>2015<br /><strong>TIME:</strong>O.29<br /><strong>CREDITS: </strong>CAMERA: Montano; EDITING : Tobe Carey<br /><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></b></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span></b></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">29. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">MASKS by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></b></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/gepnuYwjBug" id="LPlnk436551" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/gepnuYwjBug</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this film, I experiment with combining all of my personas together, and structuring them in a way that allows me to see who I really am. That is, during my first "persona" film </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LEARNING TO TALK</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, I became 7 seven fantasy people. My second "persona" film, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">SEVEN STAGES OF INTOXICATION</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, I become 7 alcoholic women in order to express my belief that menopause is about total loss of control. In my third "persona" exploration, I become real people: Mother Theresa, Bob Dylan, Hillary Clinton and Paul McMahon. Because I am an architecturally driven sculptor, I design my work methodically and so there are three categories in this film: Mask-Off, Mask-On, and then Mask-On/Off. I repeat these categories 7 times. Like making a cake, this is a recipe. Like making a sculpture, these categories become foundational principles and footings for the film. For example, every time the recipe calls for MASK OFF, an intoxicated woman appears. Every time it calls for MASK ON, a fantastical persona from</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> LEARNING TO TALK</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> appears. Every time the recipe calls for MASK ON/OFF a Paul McMahon, or Mother Theresa, or Hillary Clinton, or Bob Dylan appears. My ultimate goal is for me to have mentored so intensely from these teachers that my I-ego will be safe enough to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">disappear</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2009</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:13:44</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video Editing: Tobe Carey, David Wagner, Andy Cockrum. Camera: Diane Teramana, Steven Kolpan, Yuki Julie Kao, Joe Zambarino, Cecil Martin, The Great Szpilman, Elise Kermani. Sound: Chris Erlon, Russell Freihling. Voice: Laura Biagi, Martha Wilson, Paul McMahon. Actors: Martha Wilson, Paul McMahon, Al Rossi, Rob Gross, Ira Schneider, Carrie Wagner, Signe, Coryl Crane, Geoffrey Thomas, Bethel Collins, Chris Graham, Lance Myers, Danny Flores, Joe Zambarino. Special Thanks: Pauline Oliveros, Ted Grove, Bruce Rittenback, Linda VIckerman, Kate Horsfield, ALexandria Carrion, Flavia Gandolfo, Minnette Lehmann, Moira Roth, Dr. Aruna Mehta, Mildred & Henry Montano. Thanks to: Martha Wilson : PS122, Mother Theresa Lecture:Eucharistic Conference 1976, UCSD Center for Music Experiment, National Endowment for the Arts, 1977. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">30. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">MITCHELL'S DEATH </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1977, my ex-husband was murdered. I could stop here and say no more because that sentence alone, explains and describes this film. But writing is how I communicate best so I will outline my process. The murderer called me and told me about Mitchell's death, not saying that he murdered him but that he "accidentally" shot him in the head. Not having any skills at dealing with trauma, with talking things out, with asking for comfort, with seeking support by expressing my pain, I began writing the story from the moment that I heard the news to the time that I went into the morgue and saw his body . Still today, I hardly breathe when I remember this. Back then, I was able to use my ability to make art of my life and I shared his death with friends and colleagues at The Center For Music Experiment, UCSD, where I was a fellow in residence. And then, I shared the film itself, not as a performance but as a video-document and it went viral, so to speak. Was it because I chanted the story in good Gregorian-Zen fashion? Was it because the editor, David Wagner, used delay to deepen my voice and the story became a trance-like dirge that was almost beautiful? Was it because the story was so raw and grief ladened that it resonated with everyone who has ever experienced loss? All I know is that the film, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">MITCHELL’S DEATH</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, has touched everyone who has ever sat shiva with it. And Mitchell, an artist who had trained to be a Protestant Minister, continues to inspire.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Accessible via VIDEO DATA BANK.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">31. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">MOM ART by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Af7eaU7Yt6c" id="LPlnk844955" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/Af7eaU7Yt6c</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In my childhood, if my selective memory serves me well, our family communicated as if we had tentacles growing from our head, passing unspoken but clear messages, intuiting answers. Music and silence became our languages of choice. I knew I wanted to get to know my parents and not just guess who they were, so I interviewed them when I was in my 40's, and luckily, found the cassette tape interviews 25 years later. My mother tells her story about me in MOM ART. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Only now can I can hear her voice, and understand from my own 70-year-old perspective what she was really saying, what she was really feeling, and what I feel about her. I celebrate her painting, her humor, her courage beyond courage, her love and I congratulate myself for archiving/saving the past. Mom, speak to me always. Love, Linda.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2012</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">23:28</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Editing & Animation - Tobe Carey, Voice - Mildred Montano, Linda Mary Montano</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>31a. TITLE: </strong><strong><em><u>MY MOTHER: ARTIST AND TEACHER by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></em></strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em><u><br /></u></em></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em><u><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/_dp-Ti_fhLk" id="LPlnk122531" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/_dp-Ti_fhLk</span></a></u></em></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em><u></u></em><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>DESCRIPTION: </strong> My mother's life and death were both extraordinarily epic. A painter who art therapied herself out of a called <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.14906021638766231"> for</span> and deserved depression, Mom's resiliency could have rewarded her with a Badge of Courage because she took devastating trauma making life issues and alchemized then into art, activism and humor. Modeling these gifts <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.1609371498383283">for</span> me, I look at our lives which could have been charted and copied page <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.5219062026869186">for</span> page, letter by letter and I recognize that I have imitated her style, not missing a beat. <br /> We both practice art as therapy and humor and as deflection from the unspeakable. We both jump into everything with 150% effort and an attitude which covers over the fact that neither of us know exactly how to respond to the life issues at hand but both of us give everything our best shot. <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.6217727480283147"> For</span> example, I watched Mom cut neighbors', family and friends' hair in our kitchen even though she had zilch training . And guess who was the president of Saugerties Nursing Committee? Mom, of course, who was not a nurse. And guess who taught English as a second language up until a few months before she died? You guessed it, Mom. My own life shares similar stories of my doing/becoming and acting as if while knowing nothing about the subject at hand. <br /> I eulogized Mom with a book, <em><strong>THE 5 JOHNS OF 5 JOHN STREET</strong></em> and a <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.25006353604918213">video</span> titled , <em><strong>MOM ART</strong></em>. I've honored her by living my life as art and it is only right that I share helpful suggestions that I gleaned from watching by her bedside as she died. I know that she would tell me, "act as if" if I felt shy about sharing these words with you. She would say, "Make believe that you ARE a professional grief counselor." Or she might say, "Linda, help as many people as possible with your wisdom. But make sure that you do it with humor!" Thanks Mom. You're a CHAMP and so am I.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>YEAR:</strong>2016<br /><strong>TIME:</strong>13:10<br /><strong>CREDITS: </strong>Mildred Montano; FILM: Linda Mary Montano; PAINTINGS: Mildred Montano; EDITING : Tobe Carey</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">32. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> MONEY IS GREEN TOO MANIFESTO </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/9v_PSTH59go" id="LPlnk456596" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/9v_PSTH59go</span></a></span></div><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14751694862590.16636860714908008" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14751694862500.09251447185580003" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_x_ImageCell_14751694862520.5400933764612116" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14751694862520.4245546170693627" style="background-color: white; 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font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Money is Green Too - A Manifesto</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Growing up in the 40’s, in a small upstate NY village, the daughter of first-generation immigrant parents, living in an atmosphere of 30’s-depression-memories and World War II trauma, I learned by observing that money had an incredibly important and tabooed power. My parents both worked for every penny, and I am now remembering when there were no pennies. My parents worked with ration cards, and I have memories of squeezing a stupid yellow ball in a fat-filled plastic bag so that the white fat-margarine would turn yellow, and look like butter. I remember doing other World War II actions: recycling, conserving, helping the “troops.” MONEY. Because my father was not given a loan to go to dental school after high school, he worked 6 and a half days a week, and as a result of his lost dream he made sure that all four of us children did not suffer the same disappointment, and paid for us to go not only to college but beyond, never saying a word when I shipped back from Italy over-sized crucifixes and other sculptures that I made for my Master of Arts show in a Medici villa near Florence, Italy. Money wasn’t discussed at home, but being a Visual Artist, I was able to observe the ways that their having to work so hard kept them from us emotionally. I wrote the MONEY MANIFESTO as a way to discharge, clean out, de-taboo, instruct, and clear my heart of money as enemy, money as God, money as evil, money as thief of my parents time. Recently, I re-read my text of the MONEY MANIFESTO and I felt as if it were written by a CEO Accountant for a money-management firm. It is actually quite brilliant, and so I recycle it as film, and maybe you, the viewer, will find that you have money memories also. As Suze Orman said in either one of her books, or on TV, “Remember your first money memory. That memory influences your entire money history.” I did what Suze said, and that began my journey of making friends with this mysterious, invisible, powerful and complex energy called money. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>YEAR:</strong>2016</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>TIME:</strong>6:36</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>CREDITS:</strong>FILM: Linda Mary Montano; EDITING/ANIMATION: Tobe Carey</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">33. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">MY POPE DREAM (FOR THE YEAR 3040) by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/KOADiitlxZg" id="LPlnk797905" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/KOADiitlxZg</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Catholic women born in the 1940’s, who had a desire to be a priest, were dinosaurically antiqued into silence. The current Roman Catholic Womenpreist movement which excommunicates women who become said priests is a necessary response to Roman Catholic patriarchy. In this film, I teach, in a fairy-tale fashion, the history of Womenpriests, but in my radical, rude, inimitable fashion, I push the envelope by moving outside the box, and catapulting myself from being a Womanpriest to being the first Womanpope. (Although it is rumored there was a Pope Joan a long time ago). My pope-self tells how it should be, could be, must be so that those co-radicals who want to play hardball with me will remain comfortable in male dominated Catholicism. My saving grace has always been humor and an insistence that my way is the right way. I soften my rage with tears of laughter.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2013</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="x_x_kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14:15</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Written & Performed by Linda Mary Montano, Animation & Editing by Tobe Carey, Additional Audio Engineering by Jim Barbaro, Additional Images from Hubble Space Telescope.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">34. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">NURSE NURSE by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/EctbZtb79_k" id="LPlnk707927" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/EctbZtb79_k</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After I left the University of Texas Austin, where I was teaching Performance Art, I returned to Upstate New York having actually been called home by my “good” inner voices, who counseled me to, “Go, be with your father.” The backstory is that I was denied tenure, but actually, UT gave me the freedom to get to know my father for the last seven years of his life by firing me!! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">NURSE NURSE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> comedically references care giving a compromised elder, played by me, and this film allows me to practice and rehearse for what might happen medically to me in my future. That is, aren’t we all dreadfully afraid of Alzheimers? And if I practice having it now, maybe I will scare it away or at least be comfortable having it when I do get it? An important prop in this film is my dad’s lazy boy chair. It triggers such pain because he had his stroke in that chair, and I needed to resurrect the chair from memory - hell. Admittedly, this film is not funny, not easy, but in my estimation, totally necessary. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2013</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">18:23</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edited by Tobe Carey Willow Mixed Media. Camera - Josepha Gutelius. Nurse Actor - Laura Kopczac. Patient Actor - Linda Mary Montano. Nurse song/voice - Linda Mary Montano. Additional Audio Recording - Jim Barbaro Natural Recording Studio. Nurse Voice Over - Meg Carey. Special thanks to Meg Carey, Tobe Carey, Josepha Gutelius, Minnette Lehmann, and Laura Kopczak. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">35. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ONE = LOVE by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/FNmNozfAI_c" id="LPlnk748747" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/FNmNozfAI_c</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896934095880.7873090143506745" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896934095820.5656095268417909" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896934095830.37932532919365536" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896934095830.13689297969304914" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 140px; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/FNmNozfAI_c" id="LPImageAnchor_14896934095850.22234373374803895" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img height="140" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14896934095850.4643808217170391" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FNmNozfAI_c/maxresdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 140px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896934095850.7938126821089959" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896934095850.025496088702984254"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896934095850.7509405009699652" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/FNmNozfAI_c" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896934095870.5378005781486104" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ONE=LOVE</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896934095870.28680764726816954" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896934095880.00836738061245934" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Love Nourishes</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Breast feeding is the consummate love. The fact that it is so taboo in our culture makes this film seem unbelievably powerful, which it is. In 1942, when I was born, women were encouraged not to breast feed, and my allergy to cow’s milk as an infant led to paroxysms of gastro-intestinal discomfort and immediate thoughts of wanting not to continue the fight to live. Goat’s milk saved the day and for a Capricorn, whose totem is the goat, that synchronicity served me well. To resurrect the primal scene of mother/child/breast, I invited Woodstock artist Christina Varga and her infant Tuli Rose to demonstrate a renaissance-like maternal love and intimacy that is breathless in its beauty. Christina’s generosity as artist/ mother is a testament to REAL ART. It’s the way art should , could and has to be in my estimation. Tobe Carey’s video magic graces this film which looks very easy although it took many, many, many hours to bring it to delicate life. It helps me cry with love.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2014</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:01:03</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother - Christina MeLitta Varga, Child - Tuli Rose MeLitta McColgan, Father - James Joseph McColgan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">36. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ON DEATH AND DYING </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/wQU_3gfQL8I" id="LPlnk93571" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/wQU_3gfQL8I</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This film is thirty three years old, made in the mid 80's and it is now 2015. I am totally enthralled by it's timelessness. It is crazy in it's symbolism but in retrospect I think I can now read into it with some clarity. For example, why are three women in their 30's playing cards, dressed like nuns, sitting at a beautifully adorned card table with an hourglass in the middle, tracking time, while listening/or not listening to a nurse talk about death and dying? I am interviewing that nurse, Mescal Hornbeck, but did it as if I were a French poetess, using a sweet, innocent and polite faux French accent. WHY? Elizabeth Cross, Vicki Stern and I were dear and close friends at that time and both Vicki and I were living at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt Tremper NY as students of meditation, while Elizabeth lived in the village of Woodstock and made her living as a hairdresser/artist. We were women who always created our unique ways of responding to our life issues; we were women who conversed about our status as women; we were women who lived in a monastery (Vicki and I) and I know that this film is a response to the fact that we were taught by men in a male-run institution. At that time, this was a joy and also an irritant and like good feminists, we responded as art and made this "teaching tape" which is totally, strangely beautiful in it's woman-ness; beautiful in it's ability to enthrall the senses with candles dancing via camera movements; beautiful in the absurdity of nuns putting on paper sailor hats over their nun veils; beautiful in the way that we are playing cards and winning because we are alive; beautiful because Mescal is giving/freely offering 50 years of deep experience with the subject which we all need to study and learn about: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">death</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. This film is not wanting to trick: there are no difficult language tricks; no need to impress with theological posturing; no fancy camera work or snazzy editing; no need to cower and run into the Zen-interview room and try to impress a man with an understood koan! My art is always about my life and obviously, I wanted to be a Guru, just like my male Zen teacher was at that time. By making this very important, informative and comedically complex film, Elizabeth, Vicki and I got what we wanted, respect for our WOMAN-WAY . The strangely channeled CHICKEN BAWK at the end, concurs.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1982</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">21:44</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Participants are: Elizabeth Monroe Cross, Vicki Stern, Linda Mary Montano, and narrator Mescal Hornbeck</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">37. TITLE: <em><u>PERFORMANCEARAMA or </u></em></span><em><u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">PERFORMANCE IMAGES: 2013/2014/2015 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></u></em></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><em><u><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></u></em></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><em><u><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://youtu.be/S0VWvqM4hpo" id="LPlnk329967" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">https://youtu.be/S0VWvqM4hpo</span></a></span></u></em></div><em><u><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14751698243940.8050996980889533" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14751698243790.10366478850788352" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_x_ImageCell_14751698243810.821731105362157" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14751698243810.13725509710647116" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: auto; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/S0VWvqM4hpo" id="LPImageAnchor_14751698243830.38189146795225886" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a><br /><div style="display: inline-block;"><a href="https://youtu.be/S0VWvqM4hpo" id="LPImageAnchor_14751698243830.38189146795225886" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14751698243850.17925202012358765" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S0VWvqM4hpo/hqdefault.jpg" style="-ms-user-select: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></span></a></div><a href="https://youtu.be/S0VWvqM4hpo" id="LPImageAnchor_14751698243830.38189146795225886" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14751698243860.05455436257343382" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14751698243870.6147188506753385" style="font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/S0VWvqM4hpo" id="LPUrlAnchor_14751698243890.8537533440672325" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">PERFORMANCE ARAMA</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14751698243900.37852429596969095" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/" id="LPlnk896396" previewremoved="true">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14751698243920.40961175813094497" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">My performances are my medicine. Tobe Carey is my doctor.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></u></em><br /><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Artists are jugglers. We not only conceive the work; we are responsible to the work/child once conceived and born, and this job of conception, and then maintenance, is phenomenally multi-tasking in its various and sundry demands. Like harried housewives, we drive our artist-self to the work, we either hire or cajole or barter with those who photo document the work. We find our way to airports to fly to our gigs, we spend hours on the phone arranging tickets and we fix expired passports and pay exorbitant money for Asian Visa’s. We upgrade our phones so we can text in Europe. We couch-surf, trade houses, find an Air-B-And-B or use Travelocity to get a room in Poland. We spend hours learning about exchange rates of dollars for the monies of the country where we will perform. We pack Imodium, antibiotics, arnica, date and nut snacks hoping none of it will be confiscated at airports or borders. We cover our mouths when we cough or sneeze and hope that our airplane partners and strangers will do the same. Plus, we alert the media that we’re coming to town, and Twitter/Instagram critics, friends and social media. Being an artist and maintaining one’s career is octopus-like in its multi-faceted demands. I can only thank generous friends and colleagues for sharing the images they took during these performances from 2013, 2014, 2015. Their help and support makes it appear that I am a good art-housewife. And sadly/ironically, I am not able to thank you individually because I might leave out one of your names! Isn't life amazing? </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>YEAR:</strong> 2015</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>TIME: </strong>50:23</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>CREDITS:</strong> Credits are too numerous to name here. Please see end of video.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">38. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">PRIMAL SCENES </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This film is a goldmine of complexities for anyone raised Roman Catholic; for anyone knowledgeable of the discrepancies between chastity and lust; for anyone who has thoughts about Catholic clergy and the Church's rules that don't allow marriage; for anyone who wishes that Catholic women could become priests; for anyone questioning the Catholic patriarchy and for anyone wondering if the Catholic clergy is conversant with a healthy respect for sexuality. Why is that? Because I aesthetically twist the issue and disclose all of the things that happen when an institution is being inauthentic. That is, I use a softly erotic story about a nun going to confession to a priest in a confessional box while projecting a graphic, liquided and intense image of a child being born. What does that have to do with Catholicism? I don't know but I am sure that I am offending the viewer with two or maybe more taboos at once, but sometimes it takes a shock to dislodge early childhood fears and imprints because didn't all fourteen year old Catholic children come away from the experience of confession with mixed messages and didn't all 14 year old children, especially from the 1960's, feel fear and dizzying heights of confused longing when they went into the confessional box and in the dark </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">whispered</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to a newly ordained 27 year old priest that they sinned/masturbated four time that last week? My art heals my life. This film is a scream, a loud yes to a soft NO.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1980</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:58</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For more information see VIDEO DATA BANK.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">39. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ROBOT POVERA by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/2Fl47vjRDZs" id="LPlnk7687" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/2Fl47vjRDZs</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Being invited to perform at the San Francisco Art Institute has always been my drug of choice. It is my Art-home: a place where I have taught, and gigged, and given workshops. I always want to do my best there, I always want to give alot. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ROBOT POVERA </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">was a film that catapulted and dragged me into this century because of Tobe Carey's brilliant editing, I was able to use digital animation and robotization of my face, my voice, my mind. I robot-talk about how much I love the Art Institute, I talk about my past performances there, my teaching history there, and then of course, in good autobiographical style, I confess that I have a medical condition! Boo hoo! Boo hoo! Thankfully,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> animated</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Boo Hoo’s are easier to digest than 1980's confessional video pity parties. After this fun, Saturday Morning Cartoon Show, I changed moods and shared a mourning ceremony for my best friend Dr. Aruna Mehta, wanting to pack EVERYTHING into a one hour-long lecture. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ROBOT POVERA</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> initiated me into a heavy addiction to animation and the chance to see myself with braced, rotten, and spaced teeth which I digitally projected onto my image whenever possible in subsequent "robot-films" that we made. Thank you, San Francisco, for inspiring me and inviting me home to show you my drawing that I did in school today! “ Do you like it, Mom? “</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2010</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:34</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Video Editing by Tobe Carey. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">40. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">SAUERS FARM by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/DfS28Pv3nv8" id="LPlnk331134" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/DfS28Pv3nv8</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mrs. and Mr. Sauer are not the new Upstate New York young farmers. They are so old so ancient, so incredible, that you want to buy eggs there, and fresh produce, just so you can look at them and see REAL farmers. Cows, chickens, tractors, flowers, vegetables, eggs: the whole story-book farm experience is there. If you are really lucky, you not only have the experience of Mr. Sauer driving his tractor, but you might get invited inside the farmhouse after their one-to-two o'clock nap, to see Mrs. Sauer’s Angel, Warrior Woman, and Fairy paintings. Sauers farm is not just a farm, but a school, a university, an ashram, and a church. Thank you Mrs. and Mr. Sauer for opening the doors to your temple. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2011</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6:49</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Editing by Tobe Carey. Special thanks to: Mrs. and Mr. Sauer of Sauer Farm, Saugerties, New York</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">41. 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font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/" id="LPlnk889242" previewremoved="true">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14751702977680.7496814471983353" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">7 hour Glandathon with Linda Mary Montano</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some brilliant artists in Kingston, NY created a fabulous week-end dialogue between art and medicine titled </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">O+ POSITIVE FESTIVAL </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">which teams up artists, musicians, performers with health-care workers for beneficial exchanges. That is, artists play music and perform and during that same weekend, dentists fill teeth, doctors take pulses and massage therapists straighten spines It began around 2009 and for that first festival, I presented a seven hour interactive endurance based on the seven glands. Each gland was represented by an artist from the Hudson Valley Community who talked about their ovaries or adrenals or thyroid while I moved continuously for seven hours on the floor of the performance space. They were blindfolded for the hour that they talked about their gland and I was blindfolded for seven hours, moving. The time-keeper and mistress of ceremonies, Lisa Barnard Kelly, kept everything flowing/visual and Ione kept watch for seven hours, recording the images in this film which is actually a trailer/enticement and advertisement for anyone interested in doing a SEVEN HOUR GLANDATHON at your institution! . Thank you to all performers: Susan Weed, Lisa Barnard, Dr. Art Chandler, Barbara Bash, Bonnie M Smith, Dr. Mark Grossman and Lin Lerner. Thank you Tobe Carey for beautifully editing this short look at a long day. We all must remember/give gratitude to our glands because they work 24/7, no pay. Yay glands yay.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2011</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:07</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Master of Ceremonies: Lisa Barnard. Ovaries and Testes: Susun Weed. Pancreas: Lisa Barnard. Adrenals: Dr. Art Chandler. Thymus: Barbara Bash. Thyroid: Bonnie Smith. Pineal: Dr. Mark Grossman. Pituitary: Lin Lerner. Video Editing by Tobe Carey. Camera by Ione. Produced by O+ Festival & Ione’s Dream Festival. Special Thanks: All Performers & Deep Listening Institute. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">42. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">7 SPIRITUAL LIVES OF LINDA MARY MONTANO </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; 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padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896935419200.3711870665514798"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896935419200.9381895102733699" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/E7nTaL996Wg" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896935419210.3801490552946394" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Seven Spirital Lives of Linda Montano</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896935419210.15296208910566422" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896935419220.3339130378634112" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">SEVEN SPIRITUAL LIVES OF LINDA MONTANO: I try on seven ways that I can appear holy and correct and spiritually astute in this film.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All of our lives we are spiritually confused: are we good??? Bad? Angry? Sad? Going to heaven? Hell? Meditating too much? Meditating not enough? It is a game of spiritual greed and spiritual wanting that when remembered, is theologically embarrassing in retrospect. This film recounts some of the stages of my own struggle with spiritual identity because since childhood, Sainthood, was held out to be the highest good and goal of life. How to reach the top? What a competitive game I played. To ridicule my journey, I made this film which lists seven paths to my ultimate Peace: 1. Catholic Life; 2. Nun Life; 3. Yoga Life; 4. Buddhist Life; 5. Feminist Life; 6. Normal Life; 7. LIFE. Swimming babies, babies crying, babies singing, droned high long tones and images of the first Joan of Arc from the silent movies grace this beautiful trip down spiritual memory lane. I hope I remember the message that I actually foreshadowed back then: that LIFE IS ENOUGH. LIFE IS IT. IT IS ALL ONE. PLEASE, PLEASE FLOWER GIRL, DON'T EVER FORGET THIS.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1996</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13:29</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This film was made in collaboration with Offline/Online editor Andy Cockrum. Sound: Chris Erlon. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">43. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">SEVEN STAGES OF INTOXICATION by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://youtu.be/4-PMuAJ1miY" id="LPlnk452684" previewremoved="true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://youtu.be/4-PMuAJ1miY</span></a></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14750731925030.8407558258544847" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14750731924940.42461708125227526" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_x_ImageCell_14750731924950.2500195114406127" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14750731924960.6378820590658549" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: auto; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/4-PMuAJ1miY" id="LPImageAnchor_14750731924970.9695805036275925" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"></a><br /><div style="display: inline-block;"><a href="http://youtu.be/4-PMuAJ1miY" id="LPImageAnchor_14750731924970.9695805036275925" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14750731924970.8513644598647834" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4-PMuAJ1miY/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></a></div><a href="http://youtu.be/4-PMuAJ1miY" id="LPImageAnchor_14750731924970.9695805036275925" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14750731924970.05241994956940288" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14750731924980.4803200159765316" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/4-PMuAJ1miY" id="LPUrlAnchor_14750731924990.7988103873170749" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Seven Stages of Intoxication</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14750731924990.6267677957640498" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/" id="LPlnk543657" previewremoved="true">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14750731925010.8922445400004186" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Post menopausal hormone changes catapulted me out of control and I felt symbolically "intoxicated". This tape also references the "art" of teaching via faux-...</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I structure ALL of my work as if it had chapters, building blocks, architectural orderings, titled sequences and designated pauses so that my books, performances and films have structure and sculptural strength. Maybe that is because I am semi-Jesuit trained and sculpturally certified having graduated from the UWM with an MFA in Sculpture? The foundational principle of this particular film goes like this; PART ONE: Instructing in a faux-way the purpose of the tape; I do all of this faceless, with just make-believe hand gestures, faux-signing what I’m saying because I absolutely believe that viewers must be entertained visually, sonically, kinesthetically, and with good humor. At that time I was a university professor and the STINK of academia is evident in this film because I talk about performance history, my teaching history, the theme of self-portrait, the persona that I portray, and the psychological issues around menopause. Doing this comically and non-sensibly lightens the burden of university-speech. Apologizing for what the viewer is about to see, I excuse my Seven Drunk Personas, by explaining that aging and the surrender that one must admit to as time, illness and gravity rob the body of its former brilliance: aging is similar to being inebriated. When drunk, there is a surrender, and a letting go, and a succumbing to the dark negative which is hormonally similar to what happens in menopause. This is one of my favorite films. I am completely out of control, breaking all taboos of nice-ness and decorum. I’m sure that having to be on-guard in my high paying job and in university good behavior brought out and encouraged this opposition character/persona who lets down my Texas niceness and lets off steam. To illustrate how funky I get in this film, I even perform on the steps of one of the major university buildings and don’t even flinch as one of the nuns, who I met regularly at daily Mass, walks by and looks like she recognizes the drunken homeless woman acting out in public! PART TWO: Seven alcoholic women acting as if drunk. PART THREE: An assignment. ART trumps LIFE - ART heals LIFE. Will I ever be this brave again?</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1997</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">33:35</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera: Steven Kolpan, Yuki Julie Kao, Joe Zambarino, Cecil Martin. Actors: Geoffrey Thomas, Bethel Collins, Chris Graham, Lance Myers, Debra Hewitt, Danny Flores, Joe Zambarino. Production: Beta: Edward Garana Teleprint Express. Sound: Chris Erlon, Digital Domain. Editing: ANdy Cockrum, Metropost. Special thanks: Andy Cockrum, Kate Horsfeld, Alexandria Carrion, Flavia Gondolfo, Minnette Lehmann, Steven Kolpan, R.S. Mishra, </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">44. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">SHHHHHH!!!! by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/s5HBhxPvOj0" id="LPlnk127538" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/s5HBhxPvOj0</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Suzy Jeffers, the curator of SUNY Ulster Gallery, energetically and graciously assisted me in taking out of storage all of the clothing that I wore for 14 Years of Living Art. We, together, installed this rainbow of fabric and chakra - memories into her gallery. I titled this film SHHHHHH!!!! because I wanted the experience to be one of walking through the installation experientially, and not be distracted by imposed sound. After participants travelled through the gallery, they were met by my doppelgänger self, a $50 plastic skeleton. She sat in a chair with flowers on each of her chakras and gallery goers were invited to sit across from her and hold the ribbons coming from the seven energy centers so that a connection could be felt. Art, for me, is not about me, my, or moi; it is about creating possibilities for interaction, interference, community, and chances for us all to play together in child-like collaboration.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2012</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:08</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SUNY Ulster Show Curated by Suzy Jeffers, Photos - Suzy Jeffers, Video - Linda Montano, Editing - Tobe Carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">45. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> SISTER SPEAKS by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/x6FC8L4AlCo" id="LPlnk353087" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/x6FC8L4AlCo</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After leaving my assistant professor job because I didn't get tenure, I was a mess for about two years. All I could do was think about what they did, what I didn't do, what I did, why I wasn't getting that big salary, why I was back home disgraced and distraught, why I was so dishonored. I went over my teacher evaluations for the 0447th time and saw that "I WAS A GOOD TEACHER!" I looked at all of the Letters of Appeal from colleagues and saw that "I WAS LOVED BY THEM!" I was so enraged that my only response was to make some bad art. This film,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> SISTER SPEAKS</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is one of the worst! Using my nun hand puppet and terrible/fake/faux European accents, I ranted about 3 issues: 1. TENURE; 2. WOMEN AND THE PRIESTHOOD; 3. TALKING NICELY. It was easy for me to find issues to be upset about because I was just downright mad anyway, and the punching nun-doll allowed me to speak some half truths that I was not able to speak about in my "inside the house voice" so I disguised my pain with the comedic response one might have having just lost a job! But like all good fairy tales, it has a happy ending because I left Texas, came back to NY and voila, my being back home allowed me to have 7 incredibly blessed years to get to know my father again. One door closes and often a better one opens!</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="x_x_kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1999</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">29:29</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance by Linda Mary Montano, Edited by Tobe Carey, Special Thanks to Steven Kolpan.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">46. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">STARVED SURVIVORS by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; 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font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My very destructive and bad habit of listening to British BBC dramatic news reports especially from 7 pm, when I go to bed, to 6 am when I wake up, resulted in an imploded brain overload, a poetic frenzy that spilled aesthetically from my unknowing but indoctrinated and addled brain. I honestly channeled the text for this film and the SPILLAGE was putrid in its memory of every single atrocity committed on every single continent of the world having heard about them in my non-rem sleep all night. So what to do with the mental detritus? I made art. Fairy tales are my weapon of choice and I open the film with a sweet little girl (me) talking about her need for a grandmother and guardian and teacher. This grandmother (me, of course), in one of my favorite old lady masks, tells the little girl that life sucks, and be careful. The reasons why life sucks are sing-song-litanied for almost a half an hour over and over and the list of sins committed globally are words that my asleep brain remembers from BBC radio. Not trusting that my own voice could do the poem justice, I asked Paul McMahon, poet and musician, to read the atrocities and craziness melodically, thereby diffusing what’s happening in the seedy and dirty corners of this world with his poetic soothe. Mouths, teeth, saliva, gums are visuals I focus on obsessively and compulsively and have a field day doing so in this film. The cast of characters includes talking infants, mimicking doppelgängers, fear mongers, prophetic predictors of global warming, storm warners and other bad news sad sacks. Of course it ends on a happy note, when the Hag/Grandmother re-appears and tells Little Linda, DO NOT BE AFRAID.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2011</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">19:25</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video and Animation editing by Tobe Carey. Photos by Tobe Carey, Paul McMahon, Annie Sprinkle. Water and Storm Video by Tobe Carey. Thunder Audio by EZWA Public Domain Sounds. Voices: Man - Paul McMahon, Baby - Tobe Carey, Child - Linda Montano. Special Thanks: Tobe Carey, Paul McMahon, Meg Carey. Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">47. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ST THERESA OF AVILA by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/uRVXcurkM0Q" id="LPlnk759708" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/uRVXcurkM0Q</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896936768500.6845947769278142" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896936768430.5066877793519309" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200,200,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896936768460.9591419410454072" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896936768470.020656063510065214"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896936768470.3126301581212352" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/uRVXcurkM0Q" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896936768480.9162300662405647" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ST. TERESA OF AVILA</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896936768480.7120015714744396" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896936768490.338404058780188" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">ST. TERESA OF AVILA a film by Linda Mary Montano Narration - Laura Biagi Editing - Tobe Carey</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Growing up Roman Catholic, the saints were held up to us as models and mentors and we children were invited to become as outrageously saintly as these Catholic women and men. For 25 years, I explored holiness in eastern spiritual traditions: Hinduism, Zen Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. In my late 40’s, I found that I needed to return to my early spiritual traditions. Theresa of Avila intuitively called to me and I began researching her extraordinary life. There is no one quite as brave for she had unquenchable nerve: nerve to found multiple monasteries and convents; nerve to reform laxness in current Catholic practices; nerve to express her spiritual journeys to multiple spiritual directors; nerve to travel in donkey carts over non-roads to visit her already founded convents (even when sick); nerve to fend off literal demonic attacks in her self; nerve to want to hide ecstatic levitations and not receive applause for her divine giftedness; nerve to write numerous books. But most importantly, nerve to sing and dance with her nun-sisters. Theresa of Avila became my guide and fearlessness was her message. Although there is an incredibly, profoundly evocative 8-hour Spanish (with English subtitles) film made about her, I, with all due respect, created my own version, using a doppelgänger fill-in images of me as her! Sangeeta Laura Biagi’s fabulously Italian-accented voice-over as Theresa makes the film, and Tobe Carey’s editing is a gift.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2007</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">39:26</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Film By Linda M. Montano, Edited by Tobe Carey, Audio by Russell Freiling, Text Read and Sung By Laura Biagi, Additional Voices: Russell Freiling, Linda M. Montano, Actors: Henry J. Montano, Antonia Zambarino, Joshua Lewendowski of Love Scene Clear, Linda M. Montano, Videography: Tobe Carey, Steven Kolpan, Linda M. Montano, Venae Rodriguez, David Wagner. Special thanks to: Mildred & Henry Montano, Tobe & Meg Carey, Deep Listening Institute, Pauline Oliveros, Anthony & Cindy Montano, Dr. Aruna Mehta, Berninini, Rubens. I consider this film to be a collaboration among all of the brilliant artists involved in its creation. Saint Claire of Assisi, Patronage of Television, Pray for us.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">47.A. <em><u>MEET A BLACK MADONNA by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></em></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/nn8Qw7pR8B0" id="LPlnk938432" previewremoved="true"><strong><span style="color: #5588aa;"> https://youtu.be/nn8Qw7pR8B0</span></strong></a><strong> </strong></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /><strong>DESCRIPTION: </strong>In 2015 I performed seven meetings and visits to the Metropolitan Museum in NYC as a vehicle and way to <br />1. Deprogram performance and performance anxiety.<br />2. Dethrone "performativity."<br />3. Be in the throbbing electricity of NYC.<br />Meeting friends at 7 sites inside the Museum that coloristically corresponded to the seven colors of the chakras, got me to step outside the box of upstate/rural NY once a month <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.013008582936123613">for</span> a day, but also allowed our group to practice artist-anonymity and hide in the crowd although we did "act out" <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.8148357338993702">for</span> each other and mini-performed as if we had created or curated an object in the room that we were in which caught our eye and fancy. Once found, we told why we "made" it! But this show and tell was done innocently and without trumpet blare so that no one would ever have suspected that we were card carrying performance artists/artists of art or lifeists.<br />Once the ball of concept gets rolling in my head, it's hard to stop it and I noticed that I had my own mini-Met in my family home in Saugerties NY and so I decided to create an event that necessitated that I stay home, lay on the floor <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.568384609497149">for</span> an hour in front of my Met look-alike, a Black Madonna that I found in an antiques store. She became my own lovely beauty who gave me permission to visit her, at home, while lying down, so that I could meet not only her but my own heart.<br />One thing often leads to a good another and <em>MEET ME AT THE MET</em> catapulted me successfully into the sanctuary of silence. Thank you Met.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>YEAR</strong>: 2015<br /><strong>TIME</strong>: 2.43<br /><strong>CREDITS</strong>: IMAGES/CONCEPT: Linda Mary Montano; EDITING: Tobe Carey</div><div><br /></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">48. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">SHARADA, WIFE OF RAMAKRISHNA by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://youtu.be/9mATGZEuQTg" id="LPlnk486004" previewremoved="true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://youtu.be/9mATGZEuQTg</span></a></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14750731926900.0033978323476189786" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14750731926810.8951213460067855" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200 ,200 ,200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="x_x_x_ImageCell_14750731926830.3721276295705482" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14750731926830.19652757906930684" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: auto; margin: auto; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/9mATGZEuQTg" id="LPImageAnchor_14750731926840.10014900151367922" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"></a><br /><div style="display: inline-block;"><a href="http://youtu.be/9mATGZEuQTg" id="LPImageAnchor_14750731926840.10014900151367922" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14750731926840.4483378012910331" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9mATGZEuQTg/hqdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></a></div><a href="http://youtu.be/9mATGZEuQTg" id="LPImageAnchor_14750731926840.10014900151367922" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_x_TextCell_14750731926850.9248013882565454" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14750731926850.3210902600045013" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/9mATGZEuQTg" id="LPUrlAnchor_14750731926860.6786553575427511" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Story of Sharada Wife of Ramakrishna</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14750731926870.6250096030948016" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/" id="LPlnk771194" previewremoved="true">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14750731926880.42285420884209035" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">Dr. A.L. Mehta and Dr. Aruna Mehta spiritually adopted me in 1990. Their care and teaching have foundationed my life. I saw a resemblance between them and Sh...</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I realized, after seven years of driving from Austin, Texas to Houston to be with my adopted Indian new-parents, that they were the doppelgängers for the Hindu saints Ramakrishna and his wife Sharada. I had already Sainted Bapuji and Mataji, Dr. AL Mehta & Dr. Aruna Mehta in my own heart, but I doubly sainted them by also seeing them as these magnificent Hindu Divine Beings. To make the film even more eerily authentic, I had technological ways via Super 8 Camera and low-lights, to bring not only myself, but the viewer, back in time to the century when Sharada and Ramakrishna were living. In fact, one very astute Hindu playwright, visiting from India, thought that my film was a document of the REAL Ramakrishna and Sharada. What greater applause could one receive? I was thrilled. I filmed Bapuji and Mataji inside their home-temple, and asked that they perform blessings of each other, having researched in the University of Texas Austin’s magnificent library of thousands of books, India mysticism. The reading of the text that I wrote also had to resonate authentically and because I was living in a multi-cultural world at a University, after a few queries, I was able to find a young female student, Rashmi Gera, a grad student from India, who read my text and HONEST TO GOD even I am transported to what may have been once my past life homeland. Just kidding, Catholic Church! Check this film out if you don’t want to 1) buy an expensive ticket for Calcutta, 2) receive numerous injections when traveling to the east, or 3) would rather not ride in a put-put on cow-congested Indian dirt roads. We’re all traveling electronically these days, so going to India via my film/airplane might suit you just fine and feeling as we are being blessed doesn't need physical proximity anymore. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1995</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">22:46</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This tape is lovingly dedicated to: Dr. Aruna Mehta, Dr. A.L. Mehta, Dr. R.S. Mishra, Actors: Sarada: Dr. Aruna Mehta, Ramakrishna: Dr. A.L. Mehta, Reader: Rashmi Gera. Production Collaborators: Text: Rebecca Block, Camera: Alison White, Betacam: Edward Garana, Teleprint Express. Sound: Chris Erlon, Digital Domain. Editing: Andy Cockrum, Metropost. Special thanks: Andy Cockrum, Chris Erlon. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">49. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">THANK YOU, MRS. MEHTA </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/KDHtSmqY8T0" id="LPlnk286039" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/KDHtSmqY8T0</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What more efficient and personal and community-minded way to share grief than making a film about your best friend after she has died. Dr. Aruna Mehta was my second mother, my inspiration, my mentor, and teacher of Life/Art. When I was invited to lecture at the SFAI, I presented the film, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">ROBOT POVERA</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, a whimsical survey of my performances and theory, and then shared another film </span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">THANK YOU, MRS. MEHTA</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. How do you say good-bye to your best friend? I created a triune sonic, emotional and visual visit with her beautiful energy, by allowing photos of her face to merge with flowers, photographed by Tobe Carey in his garden. The accompanying sound is from the CD of a raga by Raka Mukerjee, one of my Indian singing teachers. Having practiced and learned about a half hour of Rakaji’s raga, I was extremely interested in not only honoring Mrs. Mehta, with my song, but also was so excited to show off my expertise and genius-like ability to sound like a Hindu woman singing. Fate totally twisted my intention because I had turned my back to the audience and sang into a microphone, facing the video screen so that I could see Mrs. Mehta's image, and the performer who was faux-signing everything I said or sang, faced the audience. Everyone looked at the person signing and the film screen and no one knew that I was singing. Even saying goodbye to my best friend, my hubris showed and I was aghast that nobody knew that I was "singing along" with Rakaji!! And rightfully so, my singing was heard by Mrs. Mehta </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">only</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. If I’m not mistaken, I ended the lecture by singing along with another fabulous star, Pavorati, and this time the audience knew I was singing Nessun Dorma along with him because I faced them. When we sing, we pray twice. Only Mrs. Mehta, heard my real prayers.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UPDATE TO THIS FILM: I ADDED QUOTATIONS/WORDS OF HER WISDOM TO THIS2016</span></div><div>In the early 90's, I met Doctor Aruna Mehta at Ananda Ashram , Monroe NY, the home of my Guru, Shri Brahmananda Saraswati. One look and I was cemented to her side, to her life, to her wisdom, to her schedule, to her narrative. I stopped having a story and was re-wombed by her, becoming life-glued to her daliness. I couldn't leave and <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.443139517220985"> for</span> 19 years, she allowed this mysteriously twined closeness to continue without financial dues or return of any kind. I immortalized her on <span class="x_x_x_highlight" id="x_x_x_0.5689954757595759">video</span>: <em>TWO AYRUVEDIC DOCTORS</em> and <em>SHARADA , WIFE OF RAMAKRISHNA</em> and also retrieved her deeply mystical words so that even you, the viewer have a chance to swim in the depths of her profound wisdom-beauty.</div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2010/2016</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">34:50</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Raga Singing by Raka Mukerjee. Flowers/Editing by Tobe Carey at Willow Mixed Media. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">50. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">TWO AYRUVEDIC DOCTORS by LINDA MARY MONTANO</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/mSnHvOWLRgE" id="LPlnk718831" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/mSnHvOWLRgE</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the late 90’s, I met two Ayurvedic doctors from India, then living in the US. The minute I saw them, Bapuji and Mataji, I catapulted into the ecstasy of past-life memory. It began a 19-year co-adoption process so intense that I could not leave their side, as if magnetized by past-Love. Synchronistically, my teaching job in Austin, Texas allowed me to spend every weekend with them because they were living in Houston. The three hour commute back and forth was a rush to soaking in their incredible presence. There, at their ashram-home, I was able to observe how to eat, observe how to pray, observe how to honor the earth, observe how to heal, observe how to communicate, observe how to cope, observe how to serve, observe how to live daily life in a sacred way. For those 19 years, I was either in their physical presence or telephone presence, never missing a day. This film is not Art, but a chance for you to at least experience their blessing. I thank the Mehta family for sharing their powerful parents with the world and allowing me to be included in their circle of Love.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1997</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">30 min</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Camera: Linda Mary Montano. Edited by Tobe Carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">51. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">WATER ANGELS TALKING by LINDA MARY MONTANO </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/3I_CmA0Qs4s" id="LPlnk327029" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/3I_CmA0Qs4s</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896941124190.869119606070065" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896941124130.5252500459699319" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; position: relative; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896941124140.5695975934287749" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896941124140.7710784048794685" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; position: relative; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/3I_CmA0Qs4s" id="LPImageAnchor_14896941124150.8323203240237782" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img aria-label="Preview image with link selected. 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We performed my composition titled The Seven Chakras in San Francisco while resting and enjoying California hospitality and their hot-tub. After our rehearsal, I led them in a Seven Chakra Visualization - Meditation which Jan recorded and eventually processed and then sent me the soundtrack which I eventually converted to video. The added images of adorable Crazy Talk angels lend a heavenly twist to this film. I thank my guru Shri Bramananda Saraswati for teaching me about the Chakras; I thank Jan and Lauren for helping me experience the beauty of this inner Chakra life; and gratitude to Tobe Carey, video editor extraordinnaire.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1992</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 45:99</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Composed/Performed by Linda Mary Montano. Video Editing and Animation by Tobe Carey. Water Video by Tobe Carey. Audio Producer - Janis Mattox. Good Sound Virtual Acoustics - Loren Rush and Janix Mattox. Piano Tuning Design - Loren Rush and Alfred Owens. Piano Tuning - Alfred Owens.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8 FILMS OF LINDA MARY MONTANO by OTHERS</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">BECOMING LOVE by DIANE DWYER</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Tk2WfwwfDo4" id="LPlnk157886" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/Tk2WfwwfDo4</a></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896941105540.3403373694243774" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896941105470.2081703378474662" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; position: relative; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896941105480.9906992711304015" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896941105480.40876577656215174" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 140px; margin: auto; position: relative; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Tk2WfwwfDo4" id="LPImageAnchor_14896941105490.7602689523010508" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img aria-label="Preview image with link selected. Double-tap to open the link." height="140" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14896941105500.9682738365111103" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tk2WfwwfDo4/maxresdefault.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 140px; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 250px;" width="250" /></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="TextCell_14896941105500.04223063882600675" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14896941105500.6717824549534304"><a class="ms-Icon--x ms-icon-font-size-14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPRemovePreview" style="-ms-user-select: none; background-color: #eff6fc; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;"></a></div><div id="LPTitle_14896941105510.8487979875935201" style="color: #0078d7; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Tk2WfwwfDo4" id="LPUrlAnchor_14896941105520.8217930575743904" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BECOMING LOVE</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14896941105520.7771373797835939" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;">youtu.be</div><div id="LPDescription_14896941105530.16804470385781522" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">February 9th, 2013 • Linda Montano and Paul McMahon, Saugerties, NY http://www.ihgallery.com/becoming-love.html</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For three hours Paul McMahon and I performed as him. That is, I lip synched his songs and then every 15 minutes, I sang a gland sing-a-long, honoring and bringing attention to the seven glands in the body. Formerly I was a Chakra lover but when I found out that not everyone thought they had Chakras and that Caroline Myss brilliantly interlaced the glands with Chakras and also with the Seven Catholic Sacraments, I switched to glands. As long as I have a structure and way to foundation my focus, I am happy and glands do it for me. Diane Dwyer, founder of Imogen Holloway Gallery, housed in my grandfather's first shoe store on Partition Street, Saugerties NY, filmed me dopplegangering as Paul. When friends are kind enough to document, I am grateful. And when friends allow me to learn how to love by being them, I am </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">very</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> happy.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2013</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:34</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance by: Linda Mary Montano, Paul McMahon. Film by: Diane Dwyer.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LINDA AS BOB - SILENT VERSION by TOBE CAREY or BOB SINGING/LINDA LIPSYNCHING VERSION</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/TcpIf58u74E" id="LPlnk719540" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/TcpIf58u74E</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The reason I perform as Bob Dylan is multifaceted:</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(1) My two brothers look exactly like Bob Dylan.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(2) When I dress up as a man, I look like Bob Dylan. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(3) Theologically speaking, I am not this body and mind, so why not be a man and Bob Dylan at the same time? </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(4)I live ten minutes from the blue house where Bob Dylan lived long ago in Woodstock, NY. I don’t live in Woodstock - I live in Saugerties, NY - but near enough to claim Bob as a neighbor. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When I perform as Bob, I must have the appropriate hat and I do not attempt to sing like him, I only lip-sync to his genius and for this film, silently "sang" for seven hours to Bob’s incredible poetry. My bucket list dream is for Bob to invite me on stage, and let me stand next to his brilliance. I will promise him that I will not sing.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2014</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Film:15:27; Performance: 7 hours.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Filmed & Edited by Tobe Carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LINDA MARY MONTANO'S ARCHIVE GOODBYE by TOBE CAREY</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/-l3pX77ecTw" id="LPlnk236577" previewremoved="true">http://youtu.be/-l3pX77ecTw</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When I hear a good voice, I try to obey. Some years ago, I heard, "Get your papers to an archive." That became a focus and I have found pages of journals that I wrote with contacts and names and possible places and interviews with others who had found places for their non-human babies, their art. I knew deep down inside that I had to be responsible for my past work/things because at my death, they would become detritus and landfill. It was not so much hubris that was driving the need but a belief that my intuition was serving me and others who might want to research women's art/ Catholic inspired art/ trauma art/ persona art/ book art.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The going away party was such a celebration: a movie actress, (Lisa Barnard ) sang. Ghandhi look -alike (Marc Rabinovic) spiritually led us. The girly-nuns, (Bonnie M Smith & Lindsey O'Leary) kept everyone happy. Paul McMahon sang and allowed me to be him. And a few days later, NYU, Fales Library came by with a huge truck and rode away with about 100 boxes of God-Knows What! Performance Graduate students, ENJOY! And thank you, Tobe, my friend and editor for 20 years, for catching the joy on film.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2013</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">27:20</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Linda Mary Montano,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul McMahon, Tobe Carey. Thanks to the actors: Marc Rabinowitz, Lindsey O’Learey, Paul McMahon, Lisa Barnard, Bonnie M. Smith, Linda Mary Montano 2014. Created by Tobe Carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LINDA MARY MONTANO CELEBRATES MOTHER TERESA'S 100TH BIRTHDAY AT THE ESB by MARK SHAW</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://youtu.be/h0m25kyw33g" id="LPlnk343808" previewremoved="true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://youtu.be/h0m25kyw33g</span></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Never would I consider myself an activist-artist, but when the Empire State Building committee refused to turn on their lights to BLUE and WHITE to celebrate Mother Theresa’s 100th birthday, having turned on their lights to YELLOW to celebrate Sponge Bob's birthday, I immediately accepted the challenge to respond as ART. Endurance is my method of choice, and, having previously tried out my Mother Theresa look-alike performance for two groups of senior citizens (some of whom cried, some of whom thought I was really her), I figured it was time to bring my act to the big city. Franklin Furnace responded, as they do always, to my request to spread the word that I was looking for 4 attendants/handlers/body-guards/Robert Graham look-alikes similar to the glam women in his video, Addicted to Love. Their task in the endurance was to counteract my supposed sanctity with their visual/physical beautiful officiousness. Leah Aron, Ms. Toni Silver, Andrea Dominquez, and Zhen Heinemann were the Amazonian women-guards who agreed to collaborate with me for 3 hours/3 days in front of the Empire State Building, where I blessed people, where I smiled, where I waved, where I became more and more diminutive and humble and saintly, by the minute . The fabulous and glamorous "handlers" became more protective and nurturing and cool in their guarding of my space, by the minute. It was BRILLIANT. Many stories happened and one of my favorite is that I was re-introduced to a 14 year old once orphan who “I” ( the original Mother Theresa) had found a home for with a man who was visiting in India and wanted to adopt an infant. That day in front of the Empire State Building, 14 years later, the grateful father so wanted me to be the real Mother Theresa that I concurred when he asked me to bless his adopted son and act grateful for my former deed . And there were other stories because of course, it was New York City, and more than one heterosexual couple went by, the female partner saying, “Look, honey! There’s Mother Theresa!,” and her male friend would say, “That’s not Mother Theresa. She’s DEAD,” with a 100% New York City voice, tone, accent & sarcasm. I laughed with them and waved. And then there was an extremist Catholic who came up to my hunched over self and scolded me for impersonating a saint! But their vitriolicness was forgotten when, a few minutes later, a Catholic priest who was leading a group to attend a rally of protesters against the Empire State Building for dissing Mother Theresa (led by Catholic Radicals) came over to me and asked if he could be in a picture with me. It was all good. I continue to perform as her and bring out the sari when I am called. </span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Mother Theresa, my best spiritual friend Mrs. Mehta helped me make the sari that I wear when I am you, and dear Mother Theresa, I asked for permission to perform as you from your nuns in the Bronx so this performance is legit and not a mockery, and Dear Mother Theresa, keep opening the doors of my heart so that I can see with at least a miniscule of your compassion. And Dear Mother Theresa, please bless the four women Graham-Guardians/Collaborators, and please bless Mark Shaw the film-maker, and Tobe Carey who made further edits on this film. And yes, please Mother Theresa, please bless everyone reading this. Thank you, Linda.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2010</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14:59</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaborators: Andrea Dominguez, Miss Toni Silver, Zhenesse Heinemann, Leah Aron. Video: Mark Shaw.Further edit, Tobe Carey.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. TITLE: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LINDA MARY MONTANO'S 70TH BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE SAUGERTIES BEACH by NANCY DONSKOJ</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/PNaRoIVxz7A" id="LPlnk789622">http://youtu.be/PNaRoIVxz7A</a> </span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14896941688670.3204945435248159" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; text-indent: 0px; width: 100%;"><table cellspacing="0" id="LPContainer_14896941688630.8742587079554713" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; position: relative; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top"><td colspan="1" id="ImageCell_14896941688640.45829761719788053" style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; width: 250px;"><div id="LPImageContainer_14896941688640.06399675492310153" style="background-color: white; display: table; height: 187px; margin: auto; position: relative; width: 250px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/PNaRoIVxz7A" id="LPImageAnchor_14896941688650.4071427104216956" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img aria-label="Preview image with link selected. 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I can't remember. But I always want to give myself one so maybe I didn't back then. Recently this was a big one. Seventieth. Because I have no interest in social talking, because I don't have that skill, I created a win-win party: outside, January 18th, 2012. What could be better? People were cold and had to move around, everyone brought a performance to share, the frozen water and cold snacks were conversation prompts and creating a "Let's all perform the snake dance" which conga-ed around the trees, solidified us as ONE, stretching everyone's need to have a taste of instant community/caveman, the Mystical Body in action! Nancy Donskoj, artist and always generous photographer, filmed us and posted this party favor on you tube. For my 75th, 2017, let's do it again.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2012</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2:41</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Nancy Donskoj.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LINDA MONTANO AT MFAIA, GODDARD COLLEGE OF ART: PORT TOWNSEND: by GODDARD PORT TUBE</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://youtu.be/vSuvLCtlFF0" id="LPlnk667321" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://youtu.be/vSuvLCtlFF0</span></a></span></div><u></u><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /><div contenteditable="false" id="LPBorder_GT_14751714440560.8708624751443335" style="display: inline-block; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"><img height="187" id="LPThumbnailImageID_14751714440500.6259210956718928" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vSuvLCtlFF0/hqdefault.jpg" style="-ms-user-select: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-height: 250px; max-width: 250px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" /></span></a></div><a href="http://youtu.be/vSuvLCtlFF0" id="LPImageAnchor_14751714440500.8051689928245805" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span></a></div></td><td colspan="2" id="x_x_TextCell_14751714440510.18563778667382902" style="display: table-cell; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div id="LPTitle_14751714440510.8641021108618896" style="font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light" ,"segoe ui light" ,"segoe wp light" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; top: 0px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/vSuvLCtlFF0" id="LPUrlAnchor_14751714440520.739711469260466" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Linda Montano at MFAIA Goddard College Port Townsend</span></a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14751714440530.029500570748218158" style="color: #666666; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/">youtu.be</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14751714440540.2627995149217724" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" ,"segoe ui" ,"segoe wp" ,"tahoma" ,"arial" ,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">An excerpt from special guest artist, Linda Montano's engaging and delightful workshop "An Art=Life Practice", via Skype video conference, at the MFA-IA Summ...</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As often as possible I appear on SKYPE, to avoid planes, trains, subways, buses, cars, people coughing, trains de-railing, Visas/Passports expiring, couch surfing, meals non-existing and general malaise/anxiety exacerbated by travel. This Skype appearance was made in 2009 and in re-seeing it, I notice that I must have been having Dynamic Massage/Rolfing treatments at this time because I am animated out of my everyday mind, willing to do, say and be in top ridiculous form! In keeping with my belief that we are all in this together, I ask people 3000 miles away on Skype, to play along, to make chicken sounds, to shout, to laugh, tofaux cry, to smile and help me break through time/space/distance to support the impossible task of feeling connected via technology. Sorry if the then quiet and reflective guided meditation I led on the heart center at the end of the film, broke the mood. In retrospect and in viewing this film, I think I should have folded while we were all faux crying! Give me an Amen.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2008</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9:57</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Skype session with Linda Mary Montano. Downloaded by Goddard College Townsend. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"> SEVEN YEARS OF LIVING ART - MAIDA BARBOUR</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/PzFg-FrCj9g">http://youtu.be/PzFg-FrCj9g</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DESCRIPTION: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While I was teaching performance art at the University of Texas Austin for seven years, I was performing the second seven years of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14 Years of Living Art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Maida Barbour documented my process and revisioned the chakras in her own unique way. This film is diaristic, informational, dazzling with color, and she even hired a snake which crawls up my bare back, freely illustrating the path of kundalini energy, a theologically visceral description of ecstatic paths to bliss. Twenty years later, I met Maida in Austin, where she is now a dog trainer, and practicing her art as LIFE.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1994</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13:52</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Written, Produced, & Directed by Maida Barbour, Camera by Angela Alston & Maida Barbour, Sound by Maida Barbour & Tassos Rigopoulos, Edite by Maida Barbour, Music by Ellen Fullman & Linda Montano, On-line Editing by Mads A. Hansen & Jay Mahavier, Thanks to: Elizabeth, Rebecca, Angela, Pat, Tassos, David, Nancy Schiesati, Nick Cominos, Doc Hamilton, Marc Herbst, Ellen Fullman, Annie Sprinkle, Gisela Camper, the Mehtas, the Snake Guy and, of course, Linda. Introduction</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">animated and re-edited by Tobe Carey 2012.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. TITLE:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">WALKING WITH LINDA MONTANO by DAMALI ABRAMS</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://youtu.be/e85wdLEcr8E">http://youtu.be/e85wdLEcr8E</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Damali Abrams, a sister-of-art-life, shares with me an interest in self healing as art and this is the reason for this interview. I agreed to her request to talk on camera but stated that I wanted to do it while walking because I have certain body positions that I assume when being interviewed so that I can get out of ordinary mind and answer questions intuitively. This is the first time I've talked about my process while in motion. Obviously it is not an easy feat to record or edit or handle a talking-interview in motion aesthetically because when the artist gets back in the studio to edit, they see what really happened! But Damali did a brilliant job of making this fun, and creatively rose to the occasion by placing all of my words about my art and life as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">text</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on my chest to be read and not heard because who could hear anything on the streets of NYC as trucks, buses and ambulances take center stage and drown out all conversation? She also makes everything look livelier with percussion-like sonic riffs and color tints of our images, maybe in reference to my wearing one color a year for the 14 years performance titled 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART. But more likely because she is a creative artist who knows how to reclaim footage and save the day/film. Thank you Damali for seeing/hearing me. I hear/see you also.</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Autumn Equinox 2007</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TIME: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3:48</span></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CREDITS: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera: Sean D. Ferdinand aka Shadagya, Music: Metaphysic, Interviewer/editor: Damali Abrams. Thank you: Abiola Abrams, Maria Chomentowski, Kristal Mosley, Mario Ontiveros, Faith Wilding, Vermont College of Fine Arts.</span></div></div></b> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-40554740985300082082017-03-14T11:41:00.003-07:002017-03-14T11:41:56.408-07:00CURRICULUM VITA...ONE PAGE<br /><br /><div><div id="x_content"><div id="x_content_inner"><div id="x_main"><div id="x_main_inner"><div class="x_post-52 x_page x_type-page x_status-publish x_hentry" id="x_post-52"><div class="x_entry"><a href="http://www.lindamontano.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/LINDAMMONTANO_short_vita-2015.pdf" target="_blank"></a><br /><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="width: 95%;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style9"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="x_style13" valign="top">Linda Mary Montano</td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="x_style13" valign="top">The Saugerties Art/Life Institute and Transfiguration Hospital</td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="x_style13" valign="top"><span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_370_404" role="button" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #0078d7;">9 John Street Saugerties, NY 12477</span></span></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="x_style13" valign="top">(845) 246-4482 (845) 399-2502</td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="x_style13" valign="top"><span style="color: #e24912;">lindamontano@hotmail.com</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style9" valign="top"><span class="x_style17"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">OBJECTIVE</span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top">To perform, teach, exhibit, consult, make videos, write books about the practice of living art.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">EDUCATION</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Karate/Meditation Training</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Sculpture at Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Sculpture at Villa Schifanoia, Florence</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Art Major, College of New Rochelle</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Hobart Welding School</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Novice at Maryknoll Sisters</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">PERFORMANCES <span class="x_style13"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">Performed in over 300 art venues including:</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Cleveland Public Theatre</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">New Museum</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Chicago Art Institute</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Cleveland Museum</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Diverse Works</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">San Francisco Art Institute</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">The Kitchen</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">MOMA, San Francisco</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Snug Harbor</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Andrea Rosen Gallery</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Paula Cooper Gallery</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Temple University</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">ICA, London</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Opus 40</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Womens Building</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">University of Kansas</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Mills College</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">MOCA, San Francisco</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Bard College</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Camerawork Gallery</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">UC Santa Cruz</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Hallwalls</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">SF State</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Laguna Gloria</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Art/Life Institute</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Mass College of Art</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Ananda Ashram</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">A’dam School For Dance</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">REVIEWS <span class="x_style13"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">Reviewed in over 200 venues including:</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">High Performance Mag.</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"><span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1431_1503" role="button" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #0078d7;">Washington Review</span></span></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"><span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1431_1503" role="button" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #0078d7;">London Sunday Times</span></span></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"><span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1431_1503" role="button" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #0078d7;">Japan Times</span></span></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"><span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1431_1503" role="button" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #0078d7;">New Yorker</span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"><span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1431_1503" role="button" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #0078d7;">Milwaukee</span></span> Journal</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Dallas Morning News</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Vogue</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">MOMA Magazine</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">LA Times</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Art Forum</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Shift Magazine</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">SF Bay Guardian</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Woodstock Times</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">NY Magazine</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Village Voice</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Drama Review</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">NY Post</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Art in America</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Art Week</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">PUBLICATIONS <span class="x_style13"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">Have written articles in over 20 journals and art related books including:</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">High Performance Mag.</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Womens Artist News</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Ear Magazine</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">The Act</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Harpers</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">La Mammelle Magazine</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">The Drama Review</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Binnewater Times</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">The Poetry Reading</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">VIDEOS <span class="x_style13"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">Over 20 videos distributed by the Video Data Bank (1-800-634-8544, </span><a href="http://www.vdb.org/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda; color: #e24912;">www.vdb.org</span></a><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">, info@vdb.org) including:</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Handcuff</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Anorexia Nervosa</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">The Seven Chakras</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Love Sex</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Mitchell’s Death</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Sister Speaks About Non-Violence</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Learning To Talk</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Seven Stages Of Intoxication, A Study of Menopause</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">The Seven Spiritual Lives Of Linda Montano</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Sharada, Wife of Ramakrishna</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Benares</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Benares Edited</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Chakraphonics</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Sister Speaks About Tenure</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">VIDEO SHOWS <span class="x_style13"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">Videos have been shown at over 400 venues including:</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Indiana State University</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">New York University</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Artists Space</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">New Yorker</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">MOCA, San Francisco</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Long Beach Museum</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">The Whitney</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Northwestern University</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Woodstock Times</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Ontario College of Art</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Gallery 911</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">MOMA,New York</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">ICP, New York</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">LA Times</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Ohio State University</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Reed College</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">New Museum</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">LACMA</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">NY Magazine</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Evanston Art Center</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">San Francisco Art Institute</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">RISD</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">MOMA Magazine</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Geneva Video Festival</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Duke University</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">TEACHING <span class="x_style13"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">Taught Performance Art, History of Performance and Sculpture long term at: </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Univ. of Texas, Austin</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">San Francisco Art Institute</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Ohio State University</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Womens Building</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Mills College</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Univ. of California, LA</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Edgewood College</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Tyler School of Art</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Nazareth College</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Chicago Art Institute</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">San Francisco State</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">WORKSHOP TEACHING <span class="x_style13">Taught workshops at over 200 venues including:</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Univ. of Texas, Arlington</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Univ. of Ca., Los Angeles</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">University of Kansas</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Mills College</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Zen Arts Center</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Rensselear Polytech Inst.</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Univ. of Southern Cal.</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">San Francisco State</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">New York University</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Womens Building</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Univ. Of Ca., San Diego</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Cornish School Omega</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Ananda Ashram</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">CRITICAL REVIEWS <span class="x_style13">The following critics and artists have cited my work:</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Laura Cottingham</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Tom Marioni</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">C Carr</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Jennifer Fisher</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Kristine Stiles</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Christine Tamblyn</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Moira Roth</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Robert Ayers</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">A&A Grey</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Roselee Goldberg</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Chris Straye</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Lucy Lippard</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Martha Wilson</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Marcia Tucker</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Lyn Blumenthal</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Jill Johnston</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Robert Atkins</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Robin Brentano</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Linda Burnham</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">David Ross</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Richard Schechner</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">AWARDS <span class="x_style13">Have received over 13 grants/awards including:</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Edwards Foundation Grant</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">N.Y. State Council of the Arts Award</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Univ. of Texas Summer Rsch Grant</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Arties Award</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">NEA -1977/1985</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">N.Y. Foundation of the Arts Grant</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Womens Studio Workshop Book Grant</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Univ. of Texas Research Stipend</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Bessie Award</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td class="x_style17" colspan="5" valign="top">BOOKS PUBLISHED <span class="x_style13">Have published six books including:</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Letters from Linda M. Montano</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Performance Artists Talking</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Art In Everyday Life</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Paulines Proverbs</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Mildreds Death</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">Before And After Art/Life Counseling</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%">The Art/Life Institute Handbook</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="20%"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dadce0"><td bgcolor="#dadce0" class="x_style17" colspan="2" valign="top">PERFORMANCES COMPLETED <span class="x_style13"><span style="background-color: #e0dcda;">Have completed durational performances including: </span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="50%">Handcuff With Tom Marioni, 3 Days, 1981</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="50%">Chakraphonics, A Seven Hour Sounding of the Chakras, 1991-1995</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="50%">Art/Life Counseling, New Museum, 1984-1991</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top" width="50%">21 Years Of Living Art, 1998-2019</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top">Participated In Tehching Hsieh’s, One Year Performance, Tied With A Rope, 1983, 1984</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top">Blood Family Art and Dad Art, 1998-present</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top">14 Years Of Living Art, Paying Attention To The Chakras, 1984-1998</td><td class="x_style15" valign="top">Week Blindfolded, 1972, 1973, 1975</td></tr><tr><td class="x_style15" valign="top">Listening To My Heart, 3 Days</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-84423562564402376302017-03-13T09:16:00.002-07:002017-03-13T09:16:28.776-07:00SEX-ECOLOGY<div dir="ltr"><br /><br /><br /><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div align="center" class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Sex-Ecology and the Spiritual Pursuit: The Implications of Guilt and Pleasure in the Act of Loving the Earth</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Linda Mary Montano Interviews Nicolás Dumit Estévez</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Linda Mary Montano interviews Nicolás Dumit Estévez about " the shared religion of their youth, Roman Catholicism, and its interface with nature, the earth and current ecological concerns, issues and insights." Montano</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Estévez grew up in a culturally diverse home rich in syncretic spiritual identities and beliefs; Montano was raised a strict Roman Catholic, was in a convent for two years and is presently a returned and practicing Catholic. They share struggles and successes in their spiritual practices that inform their lives and art. This interview is an attempt to open the door to further freedoms and birthrights.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Skype: ring, ring, ring.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Hi, Nicolas. Good to see you.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: How are you, Linda</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Good. Nicolas let's improvise and after I interview you on Skype, let's both feel free to add, subtract and totally re-create this interview so that we are both happy.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I will begin with a question that this topic raises for me when I think of kindness, the earth, guilt, fear and religion!</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Does conservative religion leave room for the interpretation and treatment of the earth as living, co-breathing “sentience;” or does the paradigm of strict religious adherence to law, rules, and the sin-fear template get collaged over the earth so that subsequent treatment of her might echo a punitive-suffering model which is not conducive to nurturing the planet as loving mother? Perhaps environmental carelessness and abuse might be a more accepted modus operandi of a culture that does not address joy and pleasure as birthrights. </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">How did growing up in the Dominican Republic allow you to be guilt free? I know that your story will help me let go of my attachment to my very medieval, early, misinformed religious/personal story that was suffering-based.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I can’t say that I ever was or that I am completely guilt free, but as a child I had freedom in how I related to spirituality and nature. Of course then we did not talk much about the environment or ecology. These were the mid 70s and the general perception was that the planet could provide one with endless goods. People talked about the exploitation of natural resources as a positive endeavor. Tourist resorts in the Dominican Republic were just beginning to be built. Beach sites, for example, were a “virgin” territory ready to be pimped by the travel industry.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> I was raised in a home where there was a coming together of different religions. My mother and father were, to some extent, practicing Roman Catholics. We would attend mass once in a blue moon, but we were also involved with Afro-Caribbean spiritualities, and with unorthodox acts that were deemed as brujería, or witchcraft. However, talking about Vodou in the Dominican Republic of the 70s was taboo. Broaching the subject exposed the classism and racism that Dominican society was so intent in burying deep into the ground. Vodou was seen as Black, which equaled poverty and intellectual backwardness. To this end, the eco-spiritual freedom I enjoyed as a child was inseparably tied to guilt, the guilt of being caught red-handed playing unconventionally with spirituality and nature. Yet, the mixing of Vodou with Catholicism was sometimes so imperceptible and so interweaved that it was difficult to draw a line demarcating the two. I must clarify that some of the rituals we performed might have been of European “pagan” origin. One of these rituals entailed the use of a broom, which propped in a corner with sea salt crystals on its top was meant to push unwanted guests to leave one’s home at once. But back to your original question, freedom for me translated into having the opportunity to work hand in hand with water, herbs, salt, and similar materials, to shape and reshape, with a great deal of autonomy, my socio-cultural-spiritual-emotional worlds.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> The Caribbean is a place where heavy rain can make surreptitious appearances, or where it can pour and pour, and pour and pour, non-stop for days on end row. At times, at home, when we were dealing with persistent precipitations, and wanted the sun to come out, we would bring a stone from the outside and perform a peculiar action. It is important to note that, although, I learned this from my maternal grandmother, men as well as women participated in this performance. First of all, one would tie a stone with twine and then hang it from the ceiling. What this parasympathetic act did was to occlude St. Peter’s phallus, and hence force him to stop urinating on us. We were not concerned with acid rain but with copious golden showers! To me, actions like this speak of a fluid and fearless comingling of the earth and spirituality. The wet, the mucky, and bodily are not kept at bay, but are invited to come into the domestic temple embodied by one’s abode.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: It sounds matriarchal and not disciplined by rules and regulations. You are so lucky that you had these animistic, surreal and shamanic phenomena in your environment as a child. But I am ALWAYS interested in the word guilt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Tell me about guilt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Guilt? I would say that the guilt informing my upbringing comes mainly from my own training in Catholicism as yours did. Guilt made itself evident, to name one example, in the passion-like images that emerged during Easter. An illustration is provided by the stories of trees, whose sapping transformed into bleeding. Can this image come any closer to the crucifixion? Can you imagine a forest of hemorrhaging crosses? Metaphors of such sacrificial sorrow are not far distant from the current condition being lived by vast parts of our planet, which could be said to resemble an ecological Calvary.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I presently understand guilt in connection to sin, and the sin I am getting at is one linked to the perpetration of oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or ecological. Liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez talks about social sin as lack of human solidarity.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Sin as lack of solidarity is much better than sin as personal failure! Not to digress, but I can see where Liberation theology might name poverty as a great sin of misplaced solidarity via non-equal wealth distribution! In the Church, the wealth of teachings, rituals and visibility is consistently male. I would love to hear more grandmother stories.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Sacramental associations with nature emerge for me from my grandmother’s former beliefs in how observing absolute silence on Good Friday put one in contact with a boundless source of Holy water. That is, on Good Friday, Dominican water was Holy water, if one did something special. In other words, remaining silent on this specific day allowed one to become a King Midas of some sort. However, instead of turning the world into gold, one’s silence and devotion imparted an imperceptible, but powerful change in water: one could drink glass after glass of Holy water, take a Holy shower, and rinse one’s soapy dishes with this sacramental liquid. The beauty of this act resided in its ability to dismantle religious hierarchy and priestly mediation, and in giving one the possibility to imagine the sacred outside of the perimeter of the Church. On the other hand, I do wonder what happened after this Holy Water reached one’s kidneys or bladder?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: We are so ready for this culturally: grandmothers giving teachings! Women artists doing this permission-giving are the radical eco-sex-dyad radicals, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens. I'm sure their CARE can resurrect our hurting planet from its wounds.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Annie and Beth’s radicalness resides in the acts of kindness and love toward nature they are committed to performing as part of their life as well as their artistic practice. The Eco-Sex field they are so keenly developing makes ample room for participants to shift personal paradigms about their relationship to one’s planet, and hence to ourselves. In my case, joining their workshop in the U.K. turned my world upside down for very good reasons, and brought my heart and intellect closer to the ground. All of a sudden I found myself in the English countryside, together with a group of amazing Eco-Sexuals having non-genital, breath and energy orgasms with the moon, the stars, and the sky. Or discussing openly our erotic exchanges with the grass we sat or took naps on. Expanding this experience into a broader context can have the positive repercussion of helping dismantle human supremacism over other beings, including the earth, among many other damaging isms. Annie and Beth's activist, artistic and theoretical premise of the earth as our lover instead of our mother makes great sense, at the same time, it pushes one to reconsider outdated notions of motherhood. Mom is tired.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: So is religion! Do you think religion is necessary? What can good-religion offer the world?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Religion means community to millions and millions of people. For this reason and because of its commitment to bringing about a just world, religious institutions should be at the forefront of activism. Likewise, they should be a locus fostering the production of forward-thinking political, social cultural and environmental paradigms. Although nowadays my personal focus is on spirituality, which I see as the essence of religion, I am open to the possibility of more religion, but of the most progressive nature.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: We could learn from our theologically astute planetary neighbors, that's for sure. I'm drawn to Hinduism, Jainism, Native American and Buddhist theologies.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Linda, can you imagine a cathedral whose walls are stacked with progressive books from all major disciplines and areas of knowledge, where beings other than “humans” are allowed to roam freely beyond St. Francis’ day when animals are blessed? Can you imagine a church where communion takes the shape of a luscious mango or a handful of juicy blueberries? In this church priestesses, priests and people in the community read from a bible that does not have words, per se, but that is entirely made from leaves, roots, veins, wrinkles, feathers, skin, eggs, clouds, magma, rocks…, hence serving as a platform inviting one to embrace biophilia, one’s love for life.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Your voice would be most likely echoed by WOMENPRIESTS who now number over 145 in 2013. These brave females weather excommunication by the Catholic Church to follow the whisperings of the HOLY SPIRIT who directs them to equalized service and priesthood. What a great sacrifice and what bravery because excommunication is totally bone-shaking for anyone raised Catholic! These are women who are kicked out but still want to be there. Thankfully, WOMENPRIESTS are more interested in being bathed in love and natural sharing; your juicy berries comment most likely would resonate well with them! What is needed is a re-thinking, re-doing of the patriarchal model and misogynistic racism which holds mother earth captive. It's the men's fault, I say! What about men and ecology?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I agree with you. I very much welcome your proposition. It is time for dramatic socio-political-spiritual-economic-cultural changes in regard to the patriarchal systems that have ruled our planet as a whole. Personally, I am in the midst of confronting the patriarchal and colonial structures that informed my upbringing. I see this conversation as part of this healing process.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: What is REALLY wrong with the world from your perspective?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Many of us want too much. All of these wants and greedy desires become overwhelming for our planet, because in the end their pursuit has serious ecological repercussions.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: In the spirit of not wanting, let's end now with a prayer for the earth. You went to Union Theological Seminary, right? Aren’t you a priest?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I attended Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, but I have not pursued ordination.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">And you are right Linda, I like the idea of keeping this conversation short because by talking about ecology on Skype we are consuming energy! We are actually burning coal as we talk. </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: And by using our computers to add, subtract, multiply and divide this interview, we are clogging the airwaves, no doubt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Prayer: "Here we are, Linda and Nicolás, on Skype, talking about the earth, talking about this being we are part of, talking about this living and dying entity with whom we are called to commune on an on-going basis. And here we are on our computers, after our initial Skype meeting, editing this interview. We promise to love the earth and to treat it not only as mother, but also as lover. We are from earth and we will return to nurture it with our flesh and bones, the flesh and bones we received from her/it/him."</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: And because I am a want-to-be priest, I add St. Juliana Norwich's Prayer: "ALL IS WELL, ALL IS WELL. ALL MANNER OF THINGS ARE WELL."</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Amen</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Amen</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Saugerties and the Bronx, New York, August 28, 2013, 3:00 PM</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">About Linda Mary Montano and Nicolás Dumit Estévez</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">In a career spanning over fifty years, performance artist Linda Mary Montano (b. 1942) has created works in a variety of forms that explore the possibility of eliminating the distinction between art and life by creating videos, books, objects from past performances, live performances, workshops/teaching and spiritually deep ways of bringing sacred truths to her own daily life and the lives of others.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">Nicolás Dumit Estévez (b. 1967) treads an elusive path that manifests itself through experiences where the quotidian and art often overlap. During the last seven years, he has received mentorship from Linda Mary Montano a pioneer figure in the performance art field. Estévez holds degrees in art and theology. 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Montano</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Estévez grew up in a culturally diverse home rich in syncretic spiritual identities and beliefs; Montano was raised a strict Roman Catholic, was in a convent for two years and is presently a returned and practicing Catholic. They share struggles and successes in their spiritual practices that inform their lives and art. This interview is an attempt to open the door to further freedoms and birthrights.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Skype: ring, ring, ring.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Hi, Nicolas. Good to see you.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: How are you, Linda</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Good. Nicolas let's improvise and after I interview you on Skype, let's both feel free to add, subtract and totally re-create this interview so that we are both happy.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I will begin with a question that this topic raises for me when I think of kindness, the earth, guilt, fear and religion!</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Does conservative religion leave room for the interpretation and treatment of the earth as living, co-breathing “sentience;” or does the paradigm of strict religious adherence to law, rules, and the sin-fear template get collaged over the earth so that subsequent treatment of her might echo a punitive-suffering model which is not conducive to nurturing the planet as loving mother? Perhaps environmental carelessness and abuse might be a more accepted modus operandi of a culture that does not address joy and pleasure as birthrights. </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">How did growing up in the Dominican Republic allow you to be guilt free? I know that your story will help me let go of my attachment to my very medieval, early, misinformed religious/personal story that was suffering-based.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I can’t say that I ever was or that I am completely guilt free, but as a child I had freedom in how I related to spirituality and nature. Of course then we did not talk much about the environment or ecology. These were the mid 70s and the general perception was that the planet could provide one with endless goods. People talked about the exploitation of natural resources as a positive endeavor. Tourist resorts in the Dominican Republic were just beginning to be built. Beach sites, for example, were a “virgin” territory ready to be pimped by the travel industry.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> I was raised in a home where there was a coming together of different religions. My mother and father were, to some extent, practicing Roman Catholics. We would attend mass once in a blue moon, but we were also involved with Afro-Caribbean spiritualities, and with unorthodox acts that were deemed as brujería, or witchcraft. However, talking about Vodou in the Dominican Republic of the 70s was taboo. Broaching the subject exposed the classism and racism that Dominican society was so intent in burying deep into the ground. Vodou was seen as Black, which equaled poverty and intellectual backwardness. To this end, the eco-spiritual freedom I enjoyed as a child was inseparably tied to guilt, the guilt of being caught red-handed playing unconventionally with spirituality and nature. Yet, the mixing of Vodou with Catholicism was sometimes so imperceptible and so interweaved that it was difficult to draw a line demarcating the two. I must clarify that some of the rituals we performed might have been of European “pagan” origin. One of these rituals entailed the use of a broom, which propped in a corner with sea salt crystals on its top was meant to push unwanted guests to leave one’s home at once. But back to your original question, freedom for me translated into having the opportunity to work hand in hand with water, herbs, salt, and similar materials, to shape and reshape, with a great deal of autonomy, my socio-cultural-spiritual-emotional worlds.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> The Caribbean is a place where heavy rain can make surreptitious appearances, or where it can pour and pour, and pour and pour, non-stop for days on end row. At times, at home, when we were dealing with persistent precipitations, and wanted the sun to come out, we would bring a stone from the outside and perform a peculiar action. It is important to note that, although, I learned this from my maternal grandmother, men as well as women participated in this performance. First of all, one would tie a stone with twine and then hang it from the ceiling. What this parasympathetic act did was to occlude St. Peter’s phallus, and hence force him to stop urinating on us. We were not concerned with acid rain but with copious golden showers! To me, actions like this speak of a fluid and fearless comingling of the earth and spirituality. The wet, the mucky, and bodily are not kept at bay, but are invited to come into the domestic temple embodied by one’s abode.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: It sounds matriarchal and not disciplined by rules and regulations. You are so lucky that you had these animistic, surreal and shamanic phenomena in your environment as a child. But I am ALWAYS interested in the word guilt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Tell me about guilt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Guilt? I would say that the guilt informing my upbringing comes mainly from my own training in Catholicism as yours did. Guilt made itself evident, to name one example, in the passion-like images that emerged during Easter. An illustration is provided by the stories of trees, whose sapping transformed into bleeding. Can this image come any closer to the crucifixion? Can you imagine a forest of hemorrhaging crosses? Metaphors of such sacrificial sorrow are not far distant from the current condition being lived by vast parts of our planet, which could be said to resemble an ecological Calvary.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I presently understand guilt in connection to sin, and the sin I am getting at is one linked to the perpetration of oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or ecological. Liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez talks about social sin as lack of human solidarity.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Sin as lack of solidarity is much better than sin as personal failure! Not to digress, but I can see where Liberation theology might name poverty as a great sin of misplaced solidarity via non-equal wealth distribution! In the Church, the wealth of teachings, rituals and visibility is consistently male. I would love to hear more grandmother stories.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Sacramental associations with nature emerge for me from my grandmother’s former beliefs in how observing absolute silence on Good Friday put one in contact with a boundless source of Holy water. That is, on Good Friday, Dominican water was Holy water, if one did something special. In other words, remaining silent on this specific day allowed one to become a King Midas of some sort. However, instead of turning the world into gold, one’s silence and devotion imparted an imperceptible, but powerful change in water: one could drink glass after glass of Holy water, take a Holy shower, and rinse one’s soapy dishes with this sacramental liquid. The beauty of this act resided in its ability to dismantle religious hierarchy and priestly mediation, and in giving one the possibility to imagine the sacred outside of the perimeter of the Church. On the other hand, I do wonder what happened after this Holy Water reached one’s kidneys or bladder?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: We are so ready for this culturally: grandmothers giving teachings! Women artists doing this permission-giving are the radical eco-sex-dyad radicals, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens. I'm sure their CARE can resurrect our hurting planet from its wounds.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Annie and Beth’s radicalness resides in the acts of kindness and love toward nature they are committed to performing as part of their life as well as their artistic practice. The Eco-Sex field they are so keenly developing makes ample room for participants to shift personal paradigms about their relationship to one’s planet, and hence to ourselves. In my case, joining their workshop in the U.K. turned my world upside down for very good reasons, and brought my heart and intellect closer to the ground. All of a sudden I found myself in the English countryside, together with a group of amazing Eco-Sexuals having non-genital, breath and energy orgasms with the moon, the stars, and the sky. Or discussing openly our erotic exchanges with the grass we sat or took naps on. Expanding this experience into a broader context can have the positive repercussion of helping dismantle human supremacism over other beings, including the earth, among many other damaging isms. Annie and Beth's activist, artistic and theoretical premise of the earth as our lover instead of our mother makes great sense, at the same time, it pushes one to reconsider outdated notions of motherhood. Mom is tired.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: So is religion! Do you think religion is necessary? What can good-religion offer the world?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Religion means community to millions and millions of people. For this reason and because of its commitment to bringing about a just world, religious institutions should be at the forefront of activism. Likewise, they should be a locus fostering the production of forward-thinking political, social cultural and environmental paradigms. Although nowadays my personal focus is on spirituality, which I see as the essence of religion, I am open to the possibility of more religion, but of the most progressive nature.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: We could learn from our theologically astute planetary neighbors, that's for sure. I'm drawn to Hinduism, Jainism, Native American and Buddhist theologies.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Linda, can you imagine a cathedral whose walls are stacked with progressive books from all major disciplines and areas of knowledge, where beings other than “humans” are allowed to roam freely beyond St. Francis’ day when animals are blessed? Can you imagine a church where communion takes the shape of a luscious mango or a handful of juicy blueberries? In this church priestesses, priests and people in the community read from a bible that does not have words, per se, but that is entirely made from leaves, roots, veins, wrinkles, feathers, skin, eggs, clouds, magma, rocks…, hence serving as a platform inviting one to embrace biophilia, one’s love for life.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Your voice would be most likely echoed by WOMENPRIESTS who now number over 145 in 2013. These brave females weather excommunication by the Catholic Church to follow the whisperings of the HOLY SPIRIT who directs them to equalized service and priesthood. What a great sacrifice and what bravery because excommunication is totally bone-shaking for anyone raised Catholic! These are women who are kicked out but still want to be there. Thankfully, WOMENPRIESTS are more interested in being bathed in love and natural sharing; your juicy berries comment most likely would resonate well with them! What is needed is a re-thinking, re-doing of the patriarchal model and misogynistic racism which holds mother earth captive. It's the men's fault, I say! What about men and ecology?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I agree with you. I very much welcome your proposition. It is time for dramatic socio-political-spiritual-economic-cultural changes in regard to the patriarchal systems that have ruled our planet as a whole. Personally, I am in the midst of confronting the patriarchal and colonial structures that informed my upbringing. I see this conversation as part of this healing process.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: What is REALLY wrong with the world from your perspective?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Many of us want too much. All of these wants and greedy desires become overwhelming for our planet, because in the end their pursuit has serious ecological repercussions.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: In the spirit of not wanting, let's end now with a prayer for the earth. You went to Union Theological Seminary, right? Aren’t you a priest?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I attended Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, but I have not pursued ordination.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">And you are right Linda, I like the idea of keeping this conversation short because by talking about ecology on Skype we are consuming energy! We are actually burning coal as we talk. </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: And by using our computers to add, subtract, multiply and divide this interview, we are clogging the airwaves, no doubt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Prayer: "Here we are, Linda and Nicolás, on Skype, talking about the earth, talking about this being we are part of, talking about this living and dying entity with whom we are called to commune on an on-going basis. And here we are on our computers, after our initial Skype meeting, editing this interview. We promise to love the earth and to treat it not only as mother, but also as lover. We are from earth and we will return to nurture it with our flesh and bones, the flesh and bones we received from her/it/him."</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: And because I am a want-to-be priest, I add St. Juliana Norwich's Prayer: "ALL IS WELL, ALL IS WELL. ALL MANNER OF THINGS ARE WELL."</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Amen</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Amen</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Saugerties and the Bronx, New York, August 28, 2013, 3:00 PM</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">About Linda Mary Montano and Nicolás Dumit Estévez</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">In a career spanning over fifty years, performance artist Linda Mary Montano (b. 1942) has created works in a variety of forms that explore the possibility of eliminating the distinction between art and life by creating videos, books, objects from past performances, live performances, workshops/teaching and spiritually deep ways of bringing sacred truths to her own daily life and the lives of others.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">Nicolás Dumit Estévez (b. 1967) treads an elusive path that manifests itself through experiences where the quotidian and art often overlap. During the last seven years, he has received mentorship from Linda Mary Montano a pioneer figure in the performance art field. Estévez holds degrees in art and theology. 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dir="ltr"><br /><br /><br /><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div align="center" class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Sex-Ecology and the Spiritual Pursuit: The Implications of Guilt and Pleasure in the Act of Loving the Earth</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Linda Mary Montano Interviews Nicolás Dumit Estévez</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Linda Mary Montano interviews Nicolás Dumit Estévez about " the shared religion of their youth, Roman Catholicism, and its interface with nature, the earth and current ecological concerns, issues and insights." Montano</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Estévez grew up in a culturally diverse home rich in syncretic spiritual identities and beliefs; Montano was raised a strict Roman Catholic, was in a convent for two years and is presently a returned and practicing Catholic. They share struggles and successes in their spiritual practices that inform their lives and art. This interview is an attempt to open the door to further freedoms and birthrights.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Skype: ring, ring, ring.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Hi, Nicolas. Good to see you.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: How are you, Linda</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Good. Nicolas let's improvise and after I interview you on Skype, let's both feel free to add, subtract and totally re-create this interview so that we are both happy.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I will begin with a question that this topic raises for me when I think of kindness, the earth, guilt, fear and religion!</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Does conservative religion leave room for the interpretation and treatment of the earth as living, co-breathing “sentience;” or does the paradigm of strict religious adherence to law, rules, and the sin-fear template get collaged over the earth so that subsequent treatment of her might echo a punitive-suffering model which is not conducive to nurturing the planet as loving mother? Perhaps environmental carelessness and abuse might be a more accepted modus operandi of a culture that does not address joy and pleasure as birthrights. </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">How did growing up in the Dominican Republic allow you to be guilt free? I know that your story will help me let go of my attachment to my very medieval, early, misinformed religious/personal story that was suffering-based.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I can’t say that I ever was or that I am completely guilt free, but as a child I had freedom in how I related to spirituality and nature. Of course then we did not talk much about the environment or ecology. These were the mid 70s and the general perception was that the planet could provide one with endless goods. People talked about the exploitation of natural resources as a positive endeavor. Tourist resorts in the Dominican Republic were just beginning to be built. Beach sites, for example, were a “virgin” territory ready to be pimped by the travel industry.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> I was raised in a home where there was a coming together of different religions. My mother and father were, to some extent, practicing Roman Catholics. We would attend mass once in a blue moon, but we were also involved with Afro-Caribbean spiritualities, and with unorthodox acts that were deemed as brujería, or witchcraft. However, talking about Vodou in the Dominican Republic of the 70s was taboo. Broaching the subject exposed the classism and racism that Dominican society was so intent in burying deep into the ground. Vodou was seen as Black, which equaled poverty and intellectual backwardness. To this end, the eco-spiritual freedom I enjoyed as a child was inseparably tied to guilt, the guilt of being caught red-handed playing unconventionally with spirituality and nature. Yet, the mixing of Vodou with Catholicism was sometimes so imperceptible and so interweaved that it was difficult to draw a line demarcating the two. I must clarify that some of the rituals we performed might have been of European “pagan” origin. One of these rituals entailed the use of a broom, which propped in a corner with sea salt crystals on its top was meant to push unwanted guests to leave one’s home at once. But back to your original question, freedom for me translated into having the opportunity to work hand in hand with water, herbs, salt, and similar materials, to shape and reshape, with a great deal of autonomy, my socio-cultural-spiritual-emotional worlds.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> The Caribbean is a place where heavy rain can make surreptitious appearances, or where it can pour and pour, and pour and pour, non-stop for days on end row. At times, at home, when we were dealing with persistent precipitations, and wanted the sun to come out, we would bring a stone from the outside and perform a peculiar action. It is important to note that, although, I learned this from my maternal grandmother, men as well as women participated in this performance. First of all, one would tie a stone with twine and then hang it from the ceiling. What this parasympathetic act did was to occlude St. Peter’s phallus, and hence force him to stop urinating on us. We were not concerned with acid rain but with copious golden showers! To me, actions like this speak of a fluid and fearless comingling of the earth and spirituality. The wet, the mucky, and bodily are not kept at bay, but are invited to come into the domestic temple embodied by one’s abode.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: It sounds matriarchal and not disciplined by rules and regulations. You are so lucky that you had these animistic, surreal and shamanic phenomena in your environment as a child. But I am ALWAYS interested in the word guilt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Tell me about guilt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Guilt? I would say that the guilt informing my upbringing comes mainly from my own training in Catholicism as yours did. Guilt made itself evident, to name one example, in the passion-like images that emerged during Easter. An illustration is provided by the stories of trees, whose sapping transformed into bleeding. Can this image come any closer to the crucifixion? Can you imagine a forest of hemorrhaging crosses? Metaphors of such sacrificial sorrow are not far distant from the current condition being lived by vast parts of our planet, which could be said to resemble an ecological Calvary.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I presently understand guilt in connection to sin, and the sin I am getting at is one linked to the perpetration of oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or ecological. Liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez talks about social sin as lack of human solidarity.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Sin as lack of solidarity is much better than sin as personal failure! Not to digress, but I can see where Liberation theology might name poverty as a great sin of misplaced solidarity via non-equal wealth distribution! In the Church, the wealth of teachings, rituals and visibility is consistently male. I would love to hear more grandmother stories.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Sacramental associations with nature emerge for me from my grandmother’s former beliefs in how observing absolute silence on Good Friday put one in contact with a boundless source of Holy water. That is, on Good Friday, Dominican water was Holy water, if one did something special. In other words, remaining silent on this specific day allowed one to become a King Midas of some sort. However, instead of turning the world into gold, one’s silence and devotion imparted an imperceptible, but powerful change in water: one could drink glass after glass of Holy water, take a Holy shower, and rinse one’s soapy dishes with this sacramental liquid. The beauty of this act resided in its ability to dismantle religious hierarchy and priestly mediation, and in giving one the possibility to imagine the sacred outside of the perimeter of the Church. On the other hand, I do wonder what happened after this Holy Water reached one’s kidneys or bladder?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: We are so ready for this culturally: grandmothers giving teachings! Women artists doing this permission-giving are the radical eco-sex-dyad radicals, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens. I'm sure their CARE can resurrect our hurting planet from its wounds.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Annie and Beth’s radicalness resides in the acts of kindness and love toward nature they are committed to performing as part of their life as well as their artistic practice. The Eco-Sex field they are so keenly developing makes ample room for participants to shift personal paradigms about their relationship to one’s planet, and hence to ourselves. In my case, joining their workshop in the U.K. turned my world upside down for very good reasons, and brought my heart and intellect closer to the ground. All of a sudden I found myself in the English countryside, together with a group of amazing Eco-Sexuals having non-genital, breath and energy orgasms with the moon, the stars, and the sky. Or discussing openly our erotic exchanges with the grass we sat or took naps on. Expanding this experience into a broader context can have the positive repercussion of helping dismantle human supremacism over other beings, including the earth, among many other damaging isms. Annie and Beth's activist, artistic and theoretical premise of the earth as our lover instead of our mother makes great sense, at the same time, it pushes one to reconsider outdated notions of motherhood. Mom is tired.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: So is religion! Do you think religion is necessary? What can good-religion offer the world?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Religion means community to millions and millions of people. For this reason and because of its commitment to bringing about a just world, religious institutions should be at the forefront of activism. Likewise, they should be a locus fostering the production of forward-thinking political, social cultural and environmental paradigms. Although nowadays my personal focus is on spirituality, which I see as the essence of religion, I am open to the possibility of more religion, but of the most progressive nature.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: We could learn from our theologically astute planetary neighbors, that's for sure. I'm drawn to Hinduism, Jainism, Native American and Buddhist theologies.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Linda, can you imagine a cathedral whose walls are stacked with progressive books from all major disciplines and areas of knowledge, where beings other than “humans” are allowed to roam freely beyond St. Francis’ day when animals are blessed? Can you imagine a church where communion takes the shape of a luscious mango or a handful of juicy blueberries? In this church priestesses, priests and people in the community read from a bible that does not have words, per se, but that is entirely made from leaves, roots, veins, wrinkles, feathers, skin, eggs, clouds, magma, rocks…, hence serving as a platform inviting one to embrace biophilia, one’s love for life.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: Your voice would be most likely echoed by WOMENPRIESTS who now number over 145 in 2013. These brave females weather excommunication by the Catholic Church to follow the whisperings of the HOLY SPIRIT who directs them to equalized service and priesthood. What a great sacrifice and what bravery because excommunication is totally bone-shaking for anyone raised Catholic! These are women who are kicked out but still want to be there. Thankfully, WOMENPRIESTS are more interested in being bathed in love and natural sharing; your juicy berries comment most likely would resonate well with them! What is needed is a re-thinking, re-doing of the patriarchal model and misogynistic racism which holds mother earth captive. It's the men's fault, I say! What about men and ecology?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I agree with you. I very much welcome your proposition. It is time for dramatic socio-political-spiritual-economic-cultural changes in regard to the patriarchal systems that have ruled our planet as a whole. Personally, I am in the midst of confronting the patriarchal and colonial structures that informed my upbringing. I see this conversation as part of this healing process.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: What is REALLY wrong with the world from your perspective?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Many of us want too much. All of these wants and greedy desires become overwhelming for our planet, because in the end their pursuit has serious ecological repercussions.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: In the spirit of not wanting, let's end now with a prayer for the earth. You went to Union Theological Seminary, right? Aren’t you a priest?</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: I attended Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, but I have not pursued ordination.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">And you are right Linda, I like the idea of keeping this conversation short because by talking about ecology on Skype we are consuming energy! We are actually burning coal as we talk. </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: And by using our computers to add, subtract, multiply and divide this interview, we are clogging the airwaves, no doubt.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Prayer: "Here we are, Linda and Nicolás, on Skype, talking about the earth, talking about this being we are part of, talking about this living and dying entity with whom we are called to commune on an on-going basis. And here we are on our computers, after our initial Skype meeting, editing this interview. We promise to love the earth and to treat it not only as mother, but also as lover. We are from earth and we will return to nurture it with our flesh and bones, the flesh and bones we received from her/it/him."</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">LMM: And because I am a want-to-be priest, I add St. Juliana Norwich's Prayer: "ALL IS WELL, ALL IS WELL. ALL MANNER OF THINGS ARE WELL."</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Amen</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">NDE: Amen</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Saugerties and the Bronx, New York, August 28, 2013, 3:00 PM</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">About Linda Mary Montano and Nicolás Dumit Estévez</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">In a career spanning over fifty years, performance artist Linda Mary Montano (b. 1942) has created works in a variety of forms that explore the possibility of eliminating the distinction between art and life by creating videos, books, objects from past performances, live performances, workshops/teaching and spiritually deep ways of bringing sacred truths to her own daily life and the lives of others.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">Nicolás Dumit Estévez (b. 1967) treads an elusive path that manifests itself through experiences where the quotidian and art often overlap. During the last seven years, he has received mentorship from Linda Mary Montano a pioneer figure in the performance art field. Estévez holds degrees in art and theology. 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style="background-color: blue;"></span><br />I have always wanted to be a Catholic Priest and have swallowed the patriarchal misogyny and exclusion of my femaleness my whole life. Seven decades. What <br /><br />a great opportunity it will be to go to Italy as a female artist, to heal my inner urge to teach the Church to <b><i><u>DO THE RIGHT THING!</u></i></b> As a practicing performance<br /><br />artist, I have always used my work as medicine, as therapy, as a way to fix what I felt was never right in both the world and in my personal life. For example,<br /><br />I wanted to get to know my inner self better so I would often blind-fold myself for up to a week and live in this state of receptivity so that I could de-habituate <br /><br />myself from the world of addiction to the mind. I wanted to feel life, not think it. <br /><br />For this one month, preferable in May or Spring, in Venice I will, for 21 days, appear in Catholic Churches as a spin off of Bob Dylan, a male-me, and for <br /><br />those 21 days I will "heal" the 7 Chakras-Glands that I feel have been compromised by the teachings of the Church that were of disservice to my inner wisdom <br /><br />and compassion.<br /><br />For example, for three days I will make a drawing of the first Chakra and bring those small drawings for 3 days to the Church, hold them and meditate for 7 <br /><br />hours there to heal all first Chakra issues that the Church mistakenly imposed on me and others. I will repeat this scenario with the other 6 Chakras.<br /><br />At the end of the 21 day performance, I will burn all 63 small drawings outside one of the Churches, inviting the art community to join me in this cleansing/ re-<br /><br />arranging of my, and maybe our thinking, feeling and believing.<br /><br />Linda Mary Montano March 2017.<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-26657286620491086682017-03-04T10:58:00.001-08:002017-03-04T10:58:25.835-08:00ONCE UPON A TIME FOR TERESA OF AVILA<div style="color: black;"><div><div dir="ltr" id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: black;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="x_gmail_extra"><div class="x_gmail_quote"><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">From the book </span><i><span style="color: black;">Aroused: A Collection of Erotic Writings</span></i><span style="color: black;">, ed. by Karen Finley. Thunder's Mouth Press</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #9900ff;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"> <b>ONCE UPON A TIME: For Teresa of Avila</b></span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>EROTICA 1</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Time was running out. Brian returned not only to his upstate, hometown, village life and prelude to</div><div>retirement, but to the religion of his youth, Roman Catholicism. Age, lost innocence, near fatalities, poor</div><div>judgment and harsh wake-up calls had forced a surrender that only his art had known until then. In</div><div>obedience he travelled back, not ahead on his own trail, but back to the sights, smells, rituals and</div><div>sacraments; back to a physical posturing, an early, learned stance and awe-filled reticence that helped him</div><div>survive his first 17 years in that town of watching and loose-tongued gossip over the clothes line. Remember</div><div>it was the 1950s.</div><div><br /></div><div> *</div><div><br /></div><div> <b> BHAJI</b></div><div><br /></div><div>1 cabbage sliced thin</div><div>3 large potatoes cut small</div><div>1 jalapeno, take out seeds if want mild</div><div>1 tablespoon mustard seed</div><div>1/4 teaspoon turmeric </div><div>1 tablespoon coriander powder</div><div>lemon juice to taste</div><div> </div><div>Heat ghee. When hot add mustard, chili, turmeric. When mustard pops add potatoes. Stir and cook 8 minutes.</div><div>Medium heat. Add cabbage. Cook until both tender. Add coriander. Lemon to taste. Eat with yogurt.</div><div><br /></div><div> *</div><div><br /></div><div>Scrutiny by others was a small price to pay for THE RETURN because in going back he contacted a physical</div><div>kinesthesia, an uncontrollable bodily response to mystery and Presence which was swoon-like, ecstasy-like,</div><div>liminal-like, back to a spontaneous desire to not move, rather BE moved from within. Brian's first</div><div>''experience'' when 10 resulted in what seemed to be a fainting from hunger or overheating. It</div><div>happened simultaneously with the Consecration of the Wine at Mass but after that one time, he hid the</div><div>feeling deep inside, modeling the Zen-quiet equanimity of the nuns who closely watched their flock,</div><div>mentoring stillness both in church and the classroom.</div><div><br /></div><div> *</div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div> <b>BASMATI RICE</b></div><div><br /></div><div>11/2 cups basmati rice </div><div>2 tablespoons ghee</div><div>2 inch cinnamon stick</div><div>2 cloves</div><div>2 green cardamoms crushed</div><div><br /></div><div>Wash rice in cold water until clear. Cover with water and soak 30 minutes. Heat ghee, add rice, stir on</div><div>medium, one minute. Add water, spices and boil. Cover on low with lid and simmer about 20 minutes.</div><div>When done let stand 5 minutes. Eat with yogurt.</div><div><br /></div><div> *</div><div><br /></div><div>Once back in the same village, Brian's hippocampus, reptilian brain, inner child and drama-trained skills</div><div>reemerged and he attempted to construct himself as he had once been. Given the task of incorporating</div><div>tremendous surges of energy into cells habituated to his own proclivities, he found the tug-of-war</div><div>fascinating. With scientific observation he noted how he coped his first 15 years: voices were then</div><div>punitive, repeating mantra-like, "Hold it in," "Deny," "Don't show off," "Don't tell," and when the ecstatic</div><div>force of Visitation washed over his soul-hunger at Mass or during prayer in public he heard, "Tighten up so</div><div>the kids kneeling next to you don't have a clue what's happening. Only saints faint with love.''</div><div><br /></div><div> *</div><div><br /></div><div> <b> CHANNA KARI</b></div><div><br /></div><div>2 cans chickpeas</div><div>1 tablespoon curry powder</div><div>1/4 teaspoon cumin </div><div>1 onion</div><div>ginger</div><div>garlic</div><div>2 cloves</div><div>1/4 cup fresh coriander <span style="background-color: magenta;"> </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Fry onions, garlic and all spices in oil. Add drained chickpeas and lemon juice to taste.</div><div>Sprinkle coriander on top.</div><div><br /></div><div> *</div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #9900ff;"><span style="color: black;"><b>EROTICA 2</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">For 40 years he had been away in lands and mental states of permission and creativity and free intimacy</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">and desire. As a result he was terribly spoiled. Inclusion of EVERYTHING as permissible provided him with</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">a playground for his secularized metaphysical flights. Orchestrating things so well , he actually made a living</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">from doing what he wanted-at least that's what it seemed; days were an unending banquet, an art</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">cruise, an uninterrupted ride into alpha and on the way back, he re-arranged the muse's messages, sharing</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">the wealth.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> <b>CASHEW RICE WITH PEAS</b></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1 cup leftover basmati rice</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1/2 cup roasted cashew pieces </span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1/2 cup frozen peas thawed in hot water </span></div><div><span style="color: black;">2 tablespoons ghee</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">pinch of hing (a Hindu spice), and turmeric</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">In pan put spices and cashews. Stir. Add rice. Stir and heat. Garnish with coriander.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">That was then. Encased in shame, the Prodigal Son crashed, came home to the same bed, same house, same</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">kitchen table but this time something was different. Glued to the TV, he watched re-runs of animal</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">programs on the Discovery Channel and was heart-softened by one about wild ponies trained to be </span></div><div><span style="color: black;">used differently. Actually it made him cry; the ropes, the hoofs in the air, the handlers talking their</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">wildness out until a saddle and bridle and bit, then rider won over the animal's will. Horse eyes went from</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">flaming red to sweet surrender. Brian identified and Grace was the rider.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"> * </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> <b> CHAPATI</b></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1 cup flour</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1 tablespoon oil</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">water</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Combine all ingredients. Knead and form a ball. Place in bowl for 30 minutes. Knead again and form about 7</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">small balls. Roll into a 5 inch circle. Use flour if too sticky. Heat until bubbles form and turn, cooking the other </span></div><div><span style="color: black;">side until it puffs.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;">Co-trainers there were many; critiques by blood family, his own uncontested memories and an amazingly</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">wise and semi-cloistered monk who became his spiritual director. Father Gerald had been in India for thirty-five</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">years and his international experience had karmically prepared him to understand Brian's soul which was</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">conversant with and practiced in eastern theologies. So when Brian said Kundalini, Father Gerald translated</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">it as Gifts of the Spirit; Brian said Vedanta, Father Gerald said Transubstantiation; Brian said Nirvikalpa</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Samadhi, Father said Centering Prayer; Brian said Tantra, Father Gerald said Reconciliation; Brian said</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Makyo, Father said neurotic hallucinations. And on and on, spiritually echoing each other. It was much like a</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">religious Berlitz course, a recipe for return and re-theologizing of Brian's ride back to Presence.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> <b>KEER</b></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">7 cups milk</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1 cup rice</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder ADAM 1/2 SMALLER</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1 bay leaf</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">sugar to taste</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">raisins/sliced almonds optional</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Combine rice, milk, bay leaf. Cook to boil, stirring constantly. When thick remove bay leaf. Add cardamomm ,</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">sugar, raisins, almonds.</span></div><div><br /></div><div> *</div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">A year into his return home it began again: </span></div><div><span style="color: black;">He was tossed to the floor-just like before.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">The walls whispered messages-just like before.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">He floated to the ceiling and beyond-just like before.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">He fainted when the Host was raised at Mass-just like before.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">To compensate he did three things:</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1. He asked am I dreaming? Having a bioelectrical/neurological misfiring?</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">2. He overate, became heavier and used the logic that said, more pounds, less levitation.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">3. He met with Father Gerald and they talked for hours about the difference between demonic oppression</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">and demonic possession. Once the difference was understood, Brian was encouraged to repeat Hail Mary's ,</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">or the Memorare, or command the disturbance to leave in the name of the Blood of Jesus ! Possession</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">needed exorcism, oppression needed prayer. Father counseled further: " Learn to pray, Brian, that is your</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">greatest weapon and don't get attached to any of this. I want to read you something written by St. John of</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">the Cross:</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><i></i><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><i> "The pure, cautious, simple and humble soul should resist and reject revelation and</i></span></div><div><i> </i><span style="color: black;"><i>other visions with as much effort and care as it would extremely dangerous</i></span></div><div><i> </i><span style="color: black;"><i>temptations, for in order to reach the UNION OF LOVE there is no need of desiring</i></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><i> them, but rather of rejecting them. </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Solomon meant this when he exclaimed:</i></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><i> "What need has a man to desire and seek what is above his natural capacity?"</i></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><i> This </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i> means that to be perfect there is no need to desire or receive goods in </i></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><i> a way that is </i></span><span style="color: black;"><i>supernatural and beyond one's capacity. " The Ascent of the Cross</i></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><i></i><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> <b>CHAI</b></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">7 cups water</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">7 cups milk</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1 cinnamon stick</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">3 cloves</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">ginger cut or whole</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">6 green cardamom, crushed</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">few black peppercorns</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">sugar to taste</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">12-14 full teaspoons black tea or tea bags</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Heat milk, spices and water to boil. Let sit 5 minutes. Add tea. Boil again on low for 5 minutes. If in a</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">hurry, boil and stir it all together for 5 minutes. Strain and serve.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Years of fearless Body Art was good training because now his 630 muscles relaxed when attacked; the 400</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">trillion cells of his body exuded light when bothered; his cerebrum, cerebellum, cerebral cortex and</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">hippocampus were no longer overpowered by chaos. Humbled by all the newness and the simplicity of</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">obedience, he let go of his tensions, forgot about his tortured conscience, and gave up his old proclivities </span></div><div><span style="color: black;">for the extraordinary. Life quieted itself.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">And then, while in prayer one chilly March dawn, he surrendered, submitted, obeyed more intensely,</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">received and merged </span><span style="color: black;">when a feather-winged light force wrapped him in a warmth beyond touch, piercing</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">his side, his hands, his f</span><span style="color: black;">eet, with an invisible knife-tipped arrow. </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">This is not, <i>THE END.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> <b>MEDICINAL KICHEREE</b></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1 cup rice</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">1 cup mung beans</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">4 cups water</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">Boil all together. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until finished. </span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"> *</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Linda Mary Montano</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black;"><b>Footnote:</b></span></div><div><span style="color: black;">What interests me is not only unquestioned Divine ecstasy but also the</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">chemical/neurological/<wbr></wbr>neurobiological/psychological/<wbr></wbr>theological/archetypical/<wbr></wbr>medical/erotic/<wbr></wbr>hysterical issues</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">conversant with mystical states of rapture.</span></div></div><div><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-39250846289433050512017-03-04T10:51:00.000-08:002017-03-04T10:51:12.684-08:00GUIDES FOR THE 7 YEARS OF LIVING ART<div><div><div class="_rp_48"><div class="_rw_2" id="ItemHeader.ToContainer" role="heading" style="max-width: calc(100% - 200px);" tabindex="-1"><div class="rpHighlightAllClass rpHighlightAllRecipientsClass rpHighlightToClass recipientWellWrapping _rw_3"><div aria-label="To recipients. 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