{"id":8342,"date":"2020-02-24T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:30:37","slug":"feb-27-linda-mary-montano-laughing-crying-living-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2020\/02\/24\/feb-27-linda-mary-montano-laughing-crying-living-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 27 – Linda Mary Montano: Laughing, Crying, Living Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Mary Montano in person<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

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Linda Mary Montano, still from I’m Dying – My Last Performance, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and SAIC’s Video Data Bank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Linda Mary Montano is renowned for videos and endurance-based performances that dissolve the boundaries between art and life. In works like\u00a0Art\/Life One Year Performance<\/em><\/i>\u00a01983\u20131984, a collaboration with Tehching Hsieh, she spent a year bound to the artist by an eight-foot rope; in\u00a014 Years of Living Art<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(1984\u201398), she wore monochromatic clothing, devoted herself to meditative practice, and provided monthly \u201cArt\/Life Counseling\u201d at the New Museum in New York (1984\u201391). Her transformative videos draw upon her biography, from the murder of her ex-husband in the powerfully cathartic\u00a0Mitchell\u2019s Death\u00a0<\/em><\/i>(1977) to the humor of the everyday. For this special evening, Montano performatively discusses her body of work, presents a selection of videos, and guides the audience through an interactive healing modality that alternates between laughing and crying, embodying the fundamentally empathic nature of her practice.<\/p>\n

1977\u20132019, United States, digital video and live performance, ca 90 minutes followed by discussion.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

With a background in sculpture, Zen Buddhism, and Catholicism,\u00a0<\/span>Linda Mary Montano<\/strong><\/b>\u00a0turned to performance and video in the 1970s, establishing herself with endurance performances like\u00a0<\/span>Handcuff<\/em>\u00a0(1973 with Tom Marioni), and as well as a series of performance videos. From 1984 onwards, she embarked on two seven-year projects, titled\u00a0<\/span>14 Years of Living Art<\/em>, each conceived around the seven chakras. In 1998, she opened the Kingston Art\/Life Institute and in 2005, she opened the Saugerties Art\/Life Institute and Transfiguration Hospital to teach others her approach to merging art and life. Recent exhibitions include\u00a0<\/span>Linda Mary Montano: Always Creative<\/em>, SITE: Santa Fe, New Mexico (2003);\u00a0<\/span>WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution<\/em>, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and MoMA PS1, New York; and\u00a0<\/span>The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860\u20131989<\/em>, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She is the author of seven books, including\u00a0<\/span>Letters from Linda M. Montano<\/em>, (Routledge, 2005) and\u00a0<\/span>Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties<\/em>\u00a0(University of California Press, 2000).<\/span><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linda Mary Montano in person Linda Mary Montano is renowned for videos and endurance-based performances that dissolve the boundaries between art and life. In works like\u00a0Art\/Life One Year Performance\u00a01983\u20131984, a collaboration with Tehching Hsieh, she spent a year bound to the artist by an eight-foot rope; in\u00a014 Years of Living Art\u00a0(1984\u201398), she wore monochromatic clothing, […]<\/p>\n

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