Saturday, May 9, 2015

DANCE ------BLESS--------PRAY

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                            7 SUNDAYS/ 7 GLANDS

Dancer JULIE MANNA sculptor RAQUEL RABINOVICH and  performance artist  LINDA MARY MONTANO will offer a  one hour performance for seven Sundays, 2pm-3pm at NANCY DONSKOJ'S  Storefront Gallery , The Rondout,  Kingston NY.

WEEK 1: OVARIES/TESTES; RED: INTIMACY

WEEK 2: PANCREAS; ORANGE: SECURITY

WEEK 3: ADRENALS; YELLOW: COURAGE

WEEK 4: THYMUS; GREEN: COMPASSION

WEEK 5: THYROID; BLUE: COMMUNICATION

WEEK 6: PINEAL; PURPLE:  INTUITION

WEEK 7: PITUITARY; WHITE: JOY


MANNA WILL MOVE AS MONTANO PRAYS AND RABINOVICH BLESSES. THE PERFORMANCE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE GARDEN OF THE STOREFRONT GALLERY AND LAST ONE HOUR, SEVEN DIFFERENT TIMES.

We look forward to your attendance to this series of offerings of gratitude to the glands. Feel free to wear the color of the day.
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TEACHING FROM MY YOU TUBES


TEACHING FROM MY YOU TUBES: LINDA MARY MONTANO

 
PERFORMANCE  :
 
https://youtu.be/NZcZWN2YFkI     STARVED  SURVIVORS;  LINDA  MARY MONTANO:  WHEN THINGS ARE AWFUL


 1. AS PEOPLE ENTER: 
 
https://youtu.be/eMWeQWGla0Y     TRANQUIL BIRDSONG
 
 
2. WWW.LINDAMONTANO.COM          MY WEBSITE
 
 
THE BUDDHA SAYS:
 
3. https://youtu.be/FNmNozfAI_c      ONE=LOVE  .....LINDA MARY MONTANO......BIRTH
 
 
4. https://youtu.be/gepnuYwjBug      MASKS..LINDA MARY MONTANO:   YOUNG LIFE
 
5. https://youtu.be/EctbZtb79_k         NURSE, NURSE,  LINDA MARY MONTANO.....OLD AGE
 
6.  https://youtu.be/lj9OlegCsBc          DYSTONIA,  LINDA MARY MONTANO,     SICKNESS
 
 
7. https://youtu.be/2vG10Mgtcwk        BENARES,   LINDA MARY MONTANO    DEATH

ENDURANCE RESUME

ENDURANCE RESUME












Linda Mary Montano has performed endurances and methodologies which attempt to not only solve everyday life traumas and issues but also magically erase the boundaries between time and space by extending actions to extremes so that everydayness disappears and consciousness is the only "element" left. She accepted Tehching Hsieh's invitation to be tied to him by a rope for a year for his One Year Performance, never touching, and subsequently performed her endurance: 14 Years of Living Art, an exploration of the Hindu Chakra theological system which suggests paying attention to both inside and outside so that one's mind, heart and glands can change for the better. Her video MITCHELL'S DEATH, is a classic and has been shown internationally and her five books: ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE; YOU TOO ARE A PERFORMANCE ARTIST; MILDRED'S DEATH; LETTERS FROM LINDA M MONTANO; & PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TALKING IN THE 80'S, are profound explorations of Montano's vision and spiritual-feminist take on life, healing and art. Montano has not only performed but has also taught performance art, sculpture and the history of performance throughout the world; and you can view more at: www.lindamontano.com. And her blog: lindamarymontano/BlogSpot.com.
 

THE FORGOTTEN 7: LINDA MARY MONTANO & GREG ARCHER

THE FORGOTTEN 7: FIRST DRAFT:
A PERFORMANCE : LINDA MARY MONTANO&GREG ARCHER




THE FORGOTTEN: 7 SITES/7 GLANDS/7 PRAYERS/7 DAYS

......WILL VISIT 7 SITES IN POLAND TO SYMBOLICALLY/REALLY HONOR THE 7 FORGOTTEN POPULATION EXTERMINATED IN THE HOLOCAUST





1.THE POLITICAL DISSENTERS


2.THE CATHOLICS AND CHRISTIANS


3.THE GAYS




4.THE GYPSYS




5.THE  PHYSICALLY/MENTALLY CHALLENGED




6.THE SLAVE LABORERS




7.THE INTELLIGENSIA







FOR EXAMPLE AT  .....................THEY WILL  CARRY RED........ AND STAY 7 HOURS .................ETF ETC

OR:

THEY WILL BE 7 HOURS AT  7 DIFFERENT POLISH SITES AND FOR EADH HOUR, THEY WILL SHARE SILENT INVOCATIONS AND PRAYERS FOR THE 7 CHAKRAS(GLANDS) OF ALL WHO DIED AT THIS SITE...ETC

OR...




Linda  from Greg -

Hi there.. 

So good to connect with you the other day. I left the conversation inspired and felt that this was something we are meant to do, so let's do keep in dialogue.

here's my latest on HUFFPO

Here are some potential sites / areas that come to mind in POLAND from my research and some, from visits.



 Monument To The Fallen & Murdered in The East  (located in WARSAW)
Amazing site/ haunting . in between two streets. I've attached pictures as well.

&
 Warsaw Uprising Museum grounds.



 Village of Symbark - a park dedicated to deported Polish people sent to Russian Gulags
here lies the House of the Siberian Deportee . It is the reconstruction of a Soviet gulag and a locomotive with carriages. Here they commemorate the tragic fate of the Polish people deported to Siberia during the second world war in "trains headed for nowhere". 




Belzec - site of FIRST extermination operated in Poland by Germans   ++  would be ideal me thinks.
Located in the Lublin district of South East Poland



 Black Madonna of CzÄ™stochowa



 Auschwitz/ Berkenau
When I was there a few years ago, I learned more about the neighboring town and its economic depression over the decades-an interesting footnote. How can a town thrive near a death camp.?



 the Polish Army Museum 
(houses the Katyn Museum, which, from my understanding will be  having its very own building beginning in Sept of this year.



 Nasielsk, Poland
thought of this, too, as it may be good to go to a significant small town that experienced something as well,  
for instance. this town and its hardships/ deaths was nearly forgotten until recently, when GLENN KURTZ wrote a  book about it and what happened. 
I wrote about him back in NOVEMBER.


also:



BOXES TO FALES ARCHIVE. NOT EDITED BY THEM YET

BOXES TO FALES FOR ARCHIVE: NOT EDITED BY THEM YET 2015


 3 BOXES RESEARCH
4 BOXES PUBLICITY
1 BOX MITCHELL PAYNE
1 BOX TENURE
1 BOX MEHTA
1 BOX MISHRA
1 BOX  OF GALLEYS FOR THE BOOK: ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE
1 BOX MOM ART
1 BOX OF GALLEYS FOR THE BOOK:  LOVE SEX
1 BOX OF GALLEYS FOR THE BOOK: YOU TOO ARE A PERFORMANCE ARTIST
1 BOX GALLEYS: ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE
1 BOX WRITINGS BY OTHERS ABOUT MONTANO
12  BOXES OF BOOKS BY OTHERS MENTIONING MONTANO
4 BOXES ANNIE SPRINKLE MEMORABILIA
1 BOX MONTANO CONVENT LETTERS AND OTHER LETTERS BY MONTANO
3 BOXES OF GALLEYS FOR THE BOOK: PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TALKING IN THE EIGHTIES
1 BOX UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEWS WITH PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
1 BOX PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTS
1 BOX TEACHING PERFORMANCE ART
1 BOX SIGNED BOOKS BY OTHERS
1 BOX ALL SIGNED  BOOKS BY MONTANO
1 BOX CASSETTES USED IN  PERFORMANCES
1 BOX JUVENILIA
1 BOX 7 YEARS OF LIVING ART WRITINGS
1 SMALL BOX  FLOWER PRAYERS
1 BOX MEDIA
1 BOX MONTANO INTERVIEWING OTHERS
1 BOX MONTANO WRITINGS
1 BOX FANS
1 BOX PAPER FLOWERS
1 BOX NEWSPAPER REVIEWS
1 BOX OTHER ARTISTS LETTERS
1 BOX VIDEOS BY OTHERS
1 BOX HIGH PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE
1 BOX HAND WRITTEN WRITINGS OF PERFORMANCE IDEAS
1 BOX LIFE IN THE CONVENT
1 BOX PERFORMANCE PROPOSALS
1 BOX VIDEO TEXTS AND PROPOSALS; IN COLLABORATION WITH  TOBE CAREY, EDITOR
1 BOX OTHER ARTISTS: WILKE/SMITH/DAMON ETC.
1 BOX MONTANO FAMILY
1 BOX HEALTH RECORDS
1 BOX DIARIES
2 BOXES OLIVEROS
2 BOXES HSIEH
1 BOX BUSINESS
1 BOX DRAWINGS
1 BOX COSTUMES
1 BOX VINYL RECORDS
1 BOX VIDEOTAPES FOR PERFORMANCE
1 BOX BETA VIDEOS
3 "TUBES' IN BOX: MONTANO/OLIVEROS PHOTO, CHAKRA OPRAYERS LG,7 OF 7 CHAKRA DRAWINGS/SEE THROUGH
1 BOX MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOS
1 BOX OF GALLEYS FOR THE BOOK: THE ART AND LIFE INSTITUTE HANDBOOK
1 BOX DAD ART
1 BOX DRAWINGS BY DAD AFTER STROKE
2 BOXES OF GALLEYS FOR THE BOOK: LETTERS FROM LINDA MONTANO
1 BOX PERFORMANCE PHOTOS BY PAYNE, LEHMANN, SPRINKLE, HSIEH, GAMPER.
13 BOXES VIDEOS :LEARNING TO TALK;OTHERS;PERFORMANCE;ANOREXIA;REEL TO REEL;BENARES;DADART;CHAKROPHONICE;RAW FOOTAGE.  MITCHELLS DEATH;SEX;EARLY PERFORMANCES;TAPES TOPLAY AT PERFORMANCES;AYRUVEDIC DOCTORS;FATHER LEBAR;MISC BY ME;FATHER LEBAR;BENARES; THERESA OF AVILA;MAIDA BARBOUR;COMPILATION;WINDOWS AT NEW MUSUM; MEHTAS
1 BOX DRAWINGS: SHOE DRAWINGS: IMPORTANT WATERCOLORS
1 BOX EXTRA SOE DRAWINGS
1 FLAT ANNIE SPRINKLE CARDS AND EARTH MANIFESTO
1 FLAT ANNIE SPRINKLE OF ME AS  GURU
1 BOX CERTIFICATES GRADES AND PASSPORTS
1 FLAT BOX LINDA PHOTOS BY PAUL
1 FLAT ALUMINUM FOR COVER FOR ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE
1 BOX POSTCARDS
1 BOX PERFORMANCE PHOTOS
1 BOXPERSONAL NOTES
1 FLAT MONTANO-HSIEH
1 BOX PAINTINGS BY MONTANO
________________________________________
NEXT SHIPMENT;
7 BOXES COLORED 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART CLOTHING: JACKETS/ALL CLOTHES/HAND STRINGS FOR PRAYERS
10 BOXES BOOK SCULPTURE MADE DURING DAD ART
1 SUITCASE COSTUMES
1 BOX PERFORMANCE PROPS(28 ITEMS)1.MOUTHPIECE FROM STORY OF MY LIFE;2.STETHESCOPE FROM LISTEN TO MY HEART.3.
BLUE WOOD SQUARE FROM DRILLING ME THROAT AT HEDRICK-WEXLER SHOW.4. WHITE DOLL.5. DREAM FESTIVAL SHIRT.6. WHITE ROPE AND FEATHER.7. ONE TAROT QUESTION BOARD. 8.LAST SUPPER AUDIO.9.CUT HAND  OBJECT. 10.EYE PATCH FROM BLINDFOLD PERFORMANCE.11. FOOD PERFORMANCE TEXAS. 12.POSTCARD PERFORMANCE.13.THE SISTER JACQUES BERNADETTE CHAKRA HOUR SIGN14.AACETATE SIGNS:YANKEE GO HOME.15.NASAL NETI PERFORMANCE.16.LA MEME CHOSE BOOK FROM LEARNING TO TALK. 17.ART IN THE JAIL SHIRT AND CERTIFIED LAUGHTER LEADER SHIRT. 18. GUESS MY SALARY SIGN ACETATE. 19.ORANGE LONG ROPE KNIT DURING SITE SHOW AS LINDA RONSTADT. 20 CHOOSE A CHAKRA SIGN WHAT U WANT BLESSED. ACETATE

1 BOX 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART: 7 BABY SUITS/7 SCARVES/7 JACKETS

1 BOX PERFORMANCE PROPS(12 ITEMS)1.WHITE BAKINI.2.SEIKO QUARTZ CHROMATIC TUNER FOM 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART3.ORANGE SHOES.4. GREEN GLOVES/GREEN BELT.5.PERFORMANCE INFO ON ACETATE. 6.CHAKRA TAPE FOR SALE $10.7.ACETATE INFO :ANOTHER7 YEARS OF LIVING ART. 8.8X10 PHOTOS OF ME  RED/GREE/AND MY BACK.10 OVER 100 CHICKENS ON CLOTH..11. 3 PAIRS OF BABY SHOES. 12,7 SKELETONS BIG BOX...BIG SKELETONS...13.7 SARIS. 14.PAPER FLOWERS, BOX. 15.ANNIE'S PHOTOS.

1BOX THINGS TO FILE
1 FLAT FILE COMPASSION SIGN

1 BOX MY ART (11 ITEMS) 1. THE FACING  LIFE AWARD,PLAQUE 2.1620 DRAWING SOF 7 CHAKRAS ON ACETATE3.MITCHELL PAYN AND LINDA DOLLS 4.I HUM/YOU HUM, (LONG FLOURESCENT ROLL) 5.BRONZE PENIS SCULPTURE. 6.MONEY IS GREEN MANIFESTO 7.PHOTOS BY ME OF MITCHELL PAYNE WALKING. 8. 30 PHOTOS BY MONTANO, PHOTOA DAY. 9. PHOTO OF BA AND I 10. ???CANT READ WHAT THIS ONE IS...11. PHOTOS:CHICKEN DANCE/BLINDFOLD/HAPPINESS/GARAGE TALK

1 BOX SCULPTURE  WINGS; CHICKEN NIGHT LIGHTS/CHICKEN SOCKS
1 BOX ALL PHOTOS FROM STATE OF MIND SHOW: BERKELEY MUSEUM/SITE SANTA FE. ETC

LINDA MARY MONTANO, 2015



 ALL BOXES SENT TO FALES  130 TOTAL

1 BOX PUBLIC RELATIONS
1 BOX PERSONAL PHOTOS
1 BOX OF GALLEYS FOR THE BOOK: BEFORE AND AFTER ART AND LIFE COUNSELING
1 BOX EARLY PAINTINGS
1 BOX CERTIFICATES AND GRADES
7 BOXES CLOTHES FROM 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART
10 BOXES OF A  SCULPTURE MADE FROM FAMILY BOOKS
2  BOXES PERFORMANCE PROPS.  31 ITEMS
1 BOX 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART PROPS.  21 ITEMS
1 BOX 7 LEATHER COATS  MADE INTO A SCULPTURE
1 BOX OF MY ART.  11 ITEMS
1 BOX SCULPTURE WINGS, CHICKEN NIGHT LIGHT
1 BOX SLIDES AND NEGATIVES
2 BOXES 7 CHAKRA DRAWINGS, ONE A YEAR FOR 14 YEARS  
1 BOX OF 52 DVD DIGITIZED COPIES OF PAST VIDEOS. TOBE CAREY:EDITOR.
1 BOX  PLASTER FORM FOR 7 BRONZE PENISES
THE END

NYU FALES ARCHIVE LAUNCH APRIL 14, 2015



NYU Fales Presents: Linda Mary Montano: Living Art/Living Life A Panel Discussion and Performance, April 14th @ 6:30pm

March 27, 2015
N-291 2014-15
New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections presents Linda Mary Montano: Living Art/Living Life A Panel Discussion and Performance celebrating the work of contemporary feminist performance artist, Linda Montano and the opening of her Archive at Fales, on April 14, 2015 at 6:30pm at the Fales Library, 70 Washington Square South, Third Floor, New York, NY 10012. [Subways A,C,E, B,D,M to West 4th Street; 6 line to Astor Place; R train to 8th Street].
A performance by Montano and a reception will follow the panel discussion.
  • WHAT: A panel discussion celebrating the work of contemporary feminist performance artist, Linda Montano. Performance and reception to follow.
  • WHO: Linda Montano and panelists: Karen Finley; Martha Wilson; Linda Weintraub; Kathy Brew
  • WHEN & WHERE: April 14, 2015 at 6:30pm, Fales Library, 3rd floor, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place). [Subways A,C,E, B,D,M to West 4th Street; 6 line to Astor Place; R train to 8th Street].
Space is limited; the public should please rsvp.bobst@nyu.edu, or 212-992-9018 with guest name(s) and title/date of the event.
Linda Mary Montano is a germinal/seminal figure in contemporary feminist performance art. Her work is starkly autobiographical, and is often concerned with personal transformation, using artistic ritual to focus on spiritual energy states, silence, and the erasure of art/life boundaries.
Montano’s early performances include “Handcuff” (1973) in which she was physically tied to artist Tom Marioni for three days, and “Three Day Blindfold” (1974). In 1983 and 1984, Montano participated in Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performance, in which the two artists were bound to each other by a short length of rope 24 hours a day for a year. Montano’s next work was “Seven Years of Living Art”(1984-1991), an endurance performance based on the Chakras. For each year of the performance, Montano wore a single color of clothing, spending a portion of each day in a colored room listening to a designated tone. This was followed by “Another Seven Years of Living Art.
About the panelists, who will talk about Montano’s work in video, ritual, collaboration, and her place in the history of performance art:
Kathy Brew is an award-winning independent video maker whose experience spans independent documentaries to experimental work and public television productions. Her most recent documentary, DESIGN IS ONE: LELLA & MASSIMO VIGNELLI, is currently in distribution. She is also a media arts curator and writer, published in Documentary Magazine, The Independent, and High Performance, and she teaches at the New School and School of Visual Arts.
Karen Finley is a New York based artist whose raw and transgressive performances have long provoked controversy and debate. She has performed and exhibited her art internationally, with performances at Lincoln Center, the American Repertory Theatre, and The ICA London. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim, 2 Obies, 2 Bessies, and MS. Magazine’s Woman Of The Year. She teaches in the Art and Public Policy Program at New York University.
Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. Her recent writing explores the vanguard intersection between art and environmentalism, including TO LIFE! Eco Art In Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet. Weintraub has served as the Director of the Bard College museum, and was the Henry Luce Professor of Emerging arts at Oberlin College. Her current book projects include Art-is-an Environmental Health Clinic (author) and In The Making: Creative Options For Contemporary Architecture (editor).
Martha Wilson will appear at the panel in virtual form. Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist who during the past four decades has created innovative photographic and performance works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing and “invasions” of other people’s personae. In 1976 she founded Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space in New York that champions the exploration, promotion, and preservation of artists’ books, installation and performance art, video, and art online.
About Fales Library and Special Collections:
The Fales Library, comprising nearly 355,000 volumes and over 10,000 linear feet of archive and manuscript materials, houses the Fales Collection of rare books and manuscripts in English and American literature, the Downtown Collection, the Riot Grrrl Collection, the Marion Nestle Food Studies Collection, and the general special collections of the NYU Libraries. The Fales Collection was given to NYU in 1957 by DeCoursey Fales in memory of his father, Haliburton Fales. It is especially strong in English literature from the middle of the 18th century to the present, documenting developments in the novel. The Downtown Collection, founded in 1993, documents the downtown New York art, performance, and literary scenes from 1975 to the present and is extremely rich in archival holdings, including extensive film and video. The goal of the Downtown Collection is to comprehensively collect the full range of artistic practices and output of the Downtown scene, regardless of format. This research collection, built on a documentary strategy, supports the research of students and scholars who are interested in the intersection of contemporary art with other forms of cultural and artistic expression.

The NYU Division of Libraries holds over 4 million volumes and comprises of five libraries in Manhattan and one each in Brooklyn, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai,. Its flagship, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square, receives 2.6 million visits annually. Around the world the Libraries offers access to more than 1.2 million electronic journals, books, and databases. For more information about the NYU Libraries, please visit http://library.nyu.edu
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
Events, Fales, Division of Libraries
Type: Press Release
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Linda Mary Montano was born in 1942. In a career spanning over fifty years as a performance artist, she has created works in a variety of disciplines that explore the possibility of eliminating the distinction between art and life, including videos, books, installations,  live durational performances, workshops, teaching, and Art/Life Counseling. Montano believes that art is a transforming medicine and that it has a profound effect on curing life issues, trauma and PTSD. Spiritual inquiry, recycling, living simply and conserving, via art & life, have always been her interests.

 









PHOTO BY VERONICA VERA: FALES ARCHIVE LAUNCH