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  • INFORMATION ABOUT DAD ART PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO

    INFORMATION ABOUT DAD ART PERFORMANCE/VIDEO



     
    an excerpt from the video  DAD ART
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                                                                                      DAD ART  PERFORMANCE
     
                                                     A  THREE HOUR COLLAGUED/INTERACTIVE MEDITATION ON LIFE AND DEATH
     
                                                                                         LINDA  MARY MONTANO
     
     
    STATEMENT: In 1998, I began a video collaboration with my father, Henry Montano. After his stroke, I continued documenting us.
     
    This collagued and  interactive experience, DAD ART, is an opportunity for those present to bring creative attention via video/performance/dialogue to the Great Matter, Death.
     
     
    COMPONENTS:
     
    1.  A full screen video projection of DAD ART, DVD. Length, two hours.
     
    2. Montano, singing a song from the 40’s, every 20 minutes.
     
    3.  A Master of Ceremonies who invites audience members’ participation and articulates shamanically , the feeling of the performance.
     
    4. Three interactive actions, collaged into the performance and happening simultaneously:
     
          A. An artist/lifeist, sitting at a table, onstage,  handing out glasses of water to audience members who come onstage to receive water.
     
          B. An artist/lifeist, sitting at a table, onstage, writing the spoken words of audience members who dictate a letter to death.
     
          C. One or two artists/lifeists, sitting on a chair onstage,  talking with an audience member about death.
     
     5.  At the end  of the performance,  artists/lifeists from the community will process into the performance space , with sounds, flags, ceremony and will gather the letters to death. They will then lead the audience to an appropriate space outside or inside where the letters will be burned.
     
    6. Questions and answers.
     
    TECHNOLOGY:
     
    1. Video-Sound projector for DVD.
     
    2. Mixer, speakers, playback, wireless microphone for  Master of Ceremonies, wireless microphone for Montano. And all other sound equipment as needed. Microphone for musician when present.
     
    3. Cd player with auto pause.
     
    4. Lights and colored gels for the 3 interactive action sites, Light for the  Master of Ceremonies and light for Montano. 
     And other lighting as needed.
     
    BUDGET:
     
    1. Transportation for Montano. Per diem. Lodging. Honorarium.Same for Musician when present.
     
    2. Video rental.
     
    3. Honorarium for performers.
     
    CONTACT:
     
     
    845-399 -2502,  9-5PM
     
     
    LINDAMARYMONTANO.BLOGSPOT.COM
     
     SEVEN SONGS  SUNG THROUGHOUT THE PERFORMANCE:  WITH DVD OR MUSICIAN PRESENT1. MY FUNNY VALENTINE  A MINOR C FLAT
    2. TIME ON MY HANDS  B  FLAT
    3. DANCING IN THE DARK   A
    4. IM IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE  A
    5. IVE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN B FLAT
    6. I’LL BE SEEING YOU  F
    7. THE MAN I LOVE   G
    7 SONGS ABOUT THE GLANDS, KEY OF  C

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  • LINDA MARY MONTANO 2016-05-11 15:41:00

    BLURB  FOR BRAINARD CAREY’S NEW BOOK You can unsubscribe  This is a MUST! You know how you always think, ” I wish I knew ….fill-in-the-blank…. about the art-world, the life-world?” Well here it is, here is the unmasked truth. Br…

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  • RESUME REPEAT..

    BIO: LINDA MARY MONTANO: Although trained as a sculptor, Montano extended her boundaries into sculpting herself as art and chose life issues, traumas and concerns as  matter for her art.  In the beginning, the 70’s,  she relied on the pr…

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  • TIBETAN LAMA : TO BE READ TO THE DYING

    TO BE READ TO THE DYING: TIBETAN LAMA

    Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo:From the Six Wonderful Methods for Enlightenment Without Cultivation.

    Here I [Padmasambhava] shall explain the profound meaning of liberation through hearing
    for the ones who have arrived at the time of death.
    Among the three kinds of bardos, the first is the time of the bardo of dying.
    Fortunate one of noble family, listen one-point­edly. Pay heed. Do not wander.
    Every experience in this world is Mara’s dream-like illusion.
    Everything is impermanent, everyone is subject to death.
    Noble one, turn away from further painful states.
    The experiences of whiteness, redness and blackness are all the magical display of your mind.
    These experiences are nothing other than yourself.
    Do not be afraid. Do not fear them.
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  • DAD ART PERFORMANCE FOR MUSEUMS/GALLERIES OTHER SITES

    DAD ART PERFORMANCE FOR MUSEUMS/GALLERIES/OTHER SITES an excerpt from the video  DAD  ARThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9hExtdYLls                 &nb…

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  • ART/LIE COUNSELING: UNIV OF WISCONSIN MADISON: 7 HOURS SEEING PEOPLE FOR ART/LIFE COUNSELING

    ART/LIFE COUNSELING:  UNIV OF WISCONSIN  MADISON

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  • CHICKEN WIGS

    CHICKEN WIGS  VIA ED WOODHAM….A  MUST 

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  • ARE YOU WELL?

    THE STORY OF “ARE YOU WELL?” Linda Mary Montano, Saugerties NY, 2015
     
     
    I preach art is life and life is art and a few years ago I actually practiced it. Here is how my attempt to eliminate the boundaries between the two imploded on me, exposing and exploring my theory . Notice how I didn’t really pass the art/life test of seamless, pleasant, transparent union of the two. Here is the story: One afternoon I was standing on the front of the line at the Port of Authority, NYC, waiting to board the NY to Kingston Adirondack Trailways bus. Usually people are still in city mode and keep to themselves unless they have to go to the bathroom and then they might break silence and ask the person in front or back of them to watch their stuff. So when I heard a voice from way in back  call out in a friendly and cute way, “Hello Linda, are you well?” I bolted, blanched, bleated and barfed a spontaneous spoken word intervention and answer from deep in my bowels and in not so good  performance artist in action fashion, literally sounded, shouted and not so happily addressed the question with the following rude answer to the said female actress I hardly knew. It went like this: “Am I well? Am I well. What do you mean am I well.  I have alzheimers (a fear); dementia (a fear); leaky gut (a fear); urinary incontinence (a fear).”  And maybe I said more. I don’t remember. And then I said,  “Shelly, are you well?” I  am forgetting what happened next because it was all so traumatic, the appearance of my performance artist persona off the stage, that is. And what is notable is that it was dementia-like of me to respond that way which totally complicates the entire scenario. Fabulous art/not so fabulous life.
     
    Stuffing the event deep into my unanalyzed and therapeutically untreated back brain, it recently got triggered again. You see,  Shelly was a few years ahead of herself using the are you well greeting because NOW, everybody is saying it or emailing their endings, “Be well. Or, hope you are well.” I’m obviously not over the big, pulsing need to correct them when they say the “well” stuff but  the worst part is that the performance artist is over it, but Linda the non performance artist is addressing the situation in a way that is completely embarrassing and out of order. The wreckage is  much more personally damaging than my Port of authority slippage because NOW, I’m  correcting friends, acquaintances and non-friends when the words are heard in my presence or written in emails. And it is not pretty. I don’t know Linda the corrector as well as I do, Linda the performer and as an uncertified stop-wellness officer, I am becoming scary to myself and a persona non grata to those who might want to say Hi to me but are afraid that I might bark a correction. This is not good and it is taking me soon, I promise, to a therapist who I hope will help me trace the trigger to the source. Ooopps, trigger is a bad word too!! And by the way Shelly, if I ever see you again, I will say, ” Remember that day at the Port of Authority? I’m SO sorry. I was wrong, wrong, wrong!”

      But meanwhile, (notice the word mean), I went to my Facebook community and email community and  posed the question. 
     
    I am collecting 1-2 sentence responses that you FB me to my question, “Why r people saying “ARE U WELL when they greet each other?” And why do they end emails, “Be well. Hope you are well!!” Will include  your responses in an essay. Thanks, Linda

    Here are their answers:

    SUZANNE HELLMUTH: Well,well,well I had to find the entomology. The word comes from Latin vele to wish, & earlier proto-Indo-European that evolved to Germanic, old English, Welsh having double meanings of good/fair/kind/health & related meanings to that group AND drawing/springing forth as water from a spring… tears from the eyes.

        Would a spring or well of water be good as in a fulfillment of wish –thus a water source or a well –& that water-wish word came to also mean for good/fair/kind/healthy…?  Or, having water…is well, is source of well-being– ?  Etc. 
    English have towns with Wells in their name for example, Turndote Wells, where there are natural springs. Wellington, etc. 
       But, really, what is wellness now? 
     
     
    Margarat Nee I blame Garrison Keillor for “be well” because he closes his poetry segments on the radio with it. I’ve never been greeted with “are you well” but it seems like a very clunky substitute for the usual “how’s it goin” “how ya doin'” etc.

    (My complaint is that people shouldn’t open with that unless they really want to know, otherwise dopes like me forget sometimes and answer the question)

     
    Mary Disney good ? I wonder if people are trying to shorten their correspondence and at the same time heighten their meaning with the CAPS. I think people are saying in the emails when they sign off is that they hope their friend is doing all they can to be well. I often end my emails with “Bee well” because I am a beekeeper.

     

     
    Abina Manning When I moved to the U.S. and people would ask me “Are you well?” I would answer them. Until I saw their eyes glaze over. smile emoticon.

     
    Margarat Nee When I was in Ireland it took me awhile to understand that when when folks behind a shop/cafe counter asked “are you ok?” they meant did I want to buy/order something from them.
     
    CAROL SACHAL  I learned a long time ago, 50 years or more, NEVER to ask my Ukrainian Grandmother, Nanny, “How are you?” when I went to visit her each week, 3 times a week as required in my family.  The reason:  she would tell me:  “This hoits, that hoits, oh my, the pain!”  (hoits=hurts)   If I didn’t ask her, she wouldn’t tell me and it was a much more uplifting visit, so I learned to not ask that question.

     

     

    Linda Mary Montano im learning alot keep them coming.

     
    Eileen Kane Here in Tucson, where lots of my neighbors are elderly, we don’t ever ask that question!

     
    Victoria Singh In New Zealand people tend to say “howzit goin?” no equivalent to “be well” springs to mind

     

     
    Mary Puddycat Collins My friends and I started closing our letters with the Latin “Vale” – be well – that we learned in high school.

     Tobe Carey  Well…or when I ask my “older” friend how he is, he always answers, “Rotting away, thanks.”
     
    Paul W McMahon Humans need water to survive, even more than food but not air. so if you are well, you are also well and water of life flow thru you. if you are not a well you may be getting swampy so dig deeper in order to be well again! it’s meta 4 4 minstrel psychical. i never met a 4 i didn’t like.
     
    Gene Loeb (Shinananda)  I think when they ask ” Are you well, ” they are asking u to say to yourself, “Why, do I look like shit?”
     
    Lizbeth Rymland   ( I cant find her response but I remember she said something like, forget it when it happens or maybe she was saying , it isn’t worth the energy, getting upset about someone saying, “ARE YOU WELL?”
     

               

    RICH BRANDES: Research reveals that travelers in Merry Olde England visiting pubs and taverns in unfamiliar villages might ask an establishment if they served a favorite dish known as Beef Wellington.  The question “Are you serving any Beef Wellington?” was shortened to “Are You Beef Wellington?” and later to simply “Are You Well ington?” 
    As meat eating has become less popular the phrase “Are you well” has fallen out of favor.

        
    CONCLUSION: Thanks to all of the participants, I’m cooled down. I promise I will never correct WELL again when it is said or written because I have found the source of my trigger in Eileen Kane’s response:  “Here in Tucson, where lots of my neighbors are elderly, we don’t ever ask that question!”
      
     Be,
    Linda
                
                
     

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  • WIKIPEDIA ,…LINDA MARY MONTANO

     WIKIPEDIA: LINDA  MARY  MONTANO
     
     
     Linda Mary Montano has been performing her art-life since birth.　 Her mother’s pregnancy never “showed” and when Linda　 was born her mother supposedly said, “Linda, you were a shock to everybody,”　 or something like that. Montano has　performed and shocked herself and others for　 many years and continues to this day in her upstate NY: SAUGERTIES ART/LIFE INSTITUTE　& TRANSFIGUARATION HOSPITAL where she is learning: HOW TO LOVE.　

    Linda Mary Montano is an inspiring figure in contemporary feminist performance art and her work since the mid 1960s has been critical in the development of performance and video by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for fourteen or more years. Her artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide ranging – she has been featured at museums including The New Museum in New York, MOCA San Francisco, SITE Santa Fe and the ICA in London.

    Montano’s first major performance, Chicken Woman (1972) was based on her MFA sculpture show at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. There she exhibited nine live chickens in three 8-foot (2.4　m) by 16-foot-long (4.9　m) minimalist chicken wire cages on the roof of the art building. It was titled “The Chicken Show,” 1969.

    Linda had moved to San Francisco 1970 with her husband the photographer, Mitchell Payne, and it was there that she established herself with performances like “Handcuff” (1973 with Tom Marioni) where she was physically bound to Marioni, and “Three Day Blindfold” (1974), where she lived for three days blindfolded and had to find her way around via the help of others;  attempting to prepare for life in the future when she might need assistance. The murder of Mitchell Payne,  her ex-husband, led to further exploration of art as a healing modality (“Mitchells’ Death”, 1978) and she continued her art-theology dialogue by living in a Zen monastery for three years and also resided at Ananda Ashram in the 1980s where she studied with Dr. Ramamurti Mishra for over 30 years. His influence and appreciation of her vision encouraged both her art and life.　Upon meeting Taiwanese performance artist Tehching Hsieh who was looking for someone to be tied to him as art, they performed a collaboration whereby the two artists were bound to each other by a length of rope 24 hours a day for a whole year (from July 4, 1983 to July 3, 1984). They never touched during this endurance and audio taped every word they said and each worked at seperate jobs while tied.　

    From 1984 onwards Montano performed another ambitious project titled “Seven Years of Living Art”, 1984-1991 in which she lived in her home in Kingston wearing strictly monochromatic clothing, spent a portion of every day in a coloured room, and listened to a designated tone, all of which corresponded to the energetic qualities of a specific chakra.　She changed colour every year, and after the project was finished followed it up with “Another Seven Years of Living Art”,1991-1998 in part to memorialize her mother, Mildred Montano, who died in 1988 of colon cancer.　This time she focused on the 7 Chakras, as taught by her Guru Dr. Mishra, she wore the colour clothes but let go of the many other imposed penances/disciplines, allowing nature to lead her to healing instead of her forced ego. In 1998, Montano inaugurated “Another 21 Years of Living Art ” 1998-2019, a self designed “school” which inspired those attending to choose their own unique way to bring art and healing to the 7 energy centers of the body. Participants were: Betsea Caygill, Michelle Bush, Barbara Carrellas, SC Durkin, Koosil-Ja Hwang, Vernita N’Cognita, Esther K. Smith, Krista Kelly Walsh, with satellite projects by Victoria Singh & Kurtis Champion, Steven Reigns, Elizabeth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle, EK Smith and Nells Fasty.　　Montano has always freelance taught performance art, and was on the tenure tract at the University of texas, Austin for 7 years. She came back to upstate NY , 1998, to care for Henry Montano, her father and also collaborated with him on video before his stroke, continuing to tape the 3 years of managing and caring for him at home until his death , 2005. Montano;s interest in self-healing via art has allowed her to share her information with others via “Art/Life Counseling”, a technique she used for seven years at The New Museum where curator Marcia Tucker had built a private room and allowed Montano to counsel people once a month in the window installation which was painted the same color that Montano wore for that year. At that time (1984–1991) Montano used tarot, palm and psychic readings as tools of discovery as well as attentive listening so that she could respond to the questions of her clients and she intended to find the most creative way to respond to their problems and difficulties. (Currently Montano still does “Art/Life/Laugher Counseling” but without the assistance of tarot, palm and psychic readings because they are forbidden by her current practice of Catholicism).

    The influence of her father led Montano to return to Catholicism and ultimately to Church attendance,　and since 2005 she has taken gathered prayer requests to more than ten Catholic pilgrimage sites throughout the world. Montano also meets with others in Catholic Churches for 3 hours silent retreats, re-seeing the concept of endurance from new Catholic-eyes. Since returning to Catholicism, Montano has made numerous videos exploring the faith, including Father Lebar: Catholic Priest and Exorcist; Saint Teresa Of Avila By Linda Mary Montano, and she currently performs AS Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and endures, sometimes for 7 hours at a time suspended on a scissors lift, lipsynching as Bob Dylan and Paul McMahon, an upstate musician/songwriter. Since 1975, Montano has used video as a practice and for the last 20 years, her videos have been edited and animated by Tobe Carey of Willow Mixed Media. After Occupy Wall Street when Montano saw a sign that said, COMPASSION IS THE NEW CURRENCY, Montano has offered her videos for free viewing on You Tube, except for “Dad Art” a video-performance document of her father’s last 7 years which is designed to be performed with Montano and 7 collaborators.

    Her work investigates the relationship between art and life through intricate, life-altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. She is interested in the way artistic ritual, often staged as individual interactions or collaborative workshops, can be used to alter and enhance a person’s life and to create the opportunity for focus on spiritual energy states, silence and the cessation of art/life boundaries.

    Montano’s archive is now at Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU since 2013.

    Videos produced with Tobe Carey’s editing and animation, can be seen online here, and more information is on her blog,lLinda Mary Montano Blogspot, as well as her website, WWW.LINDAMONTANO.COM


    Her seven  published books can be located via her website.

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  • MY RESPONSE TO C.S. FACEBOOK POST

    MY RESPONSE TO CLARK STRANDS  POST ON FB: CLARK STRAND: THE ALTERNATIVE TO MEDIA…IS MAMA! This past weekend I read an online article that cited the work of contemporary German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, suggesting that the only meaningfu…

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