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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
BOOK LAUNCH 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART
BOOK LAUNCH
FOR GLAND SONGS FROM THE SHADOWS:
FOR GLAND SONGS FROM THE SHADOWS:
1. I need a stage
2. I need access to a good microphone with ability to play reverb.
3. I need tech so I can be accompanied by a CD that I will bring so that it becomes a "karaoke" situation.
4. I also need romantic lighting.
The event is about 40 minutes and another performer will accompany me.
2. I need access to a good microphone with ability to play reverb.
3. I need tech so I can be accompanied by a CD that I will bring so that it becomes a "karaoke" situation.
4. I also need romantic lighting.
The event is about 40 minutes and another performer will accompany me.
IMAGES FROM UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA....MONTANO: WE ARE ALL HUNGRY
IMAGES FROM UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA....MONTANO: WE ARE ALL HUNGRY
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/batrt36a1bpenjl/AABhc1I0WdQ9aAkbPngw2XW5a?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/batrt36a1bpenjl/AABhc1I0WdQ9aAkbPngw2XW5a?dl=0
LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION: ALTON DULANEY
LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION: FOR ALTON DULANEY
I am more than assured that Alton would bring that same level of artistic integrity to the Core Program, and it is without hesitation that I highly recommend him for this esteemed position.
Dear Members of the Committee,
It has been a pleasure being the teacher, mentor, collaborator and friend to Alton DuLaney for over 20 years.
I first met him when he was an undergraduate student at UT Austin. I was teaching Performance Art and The History of Performance Art at the University for seven years there. Even as a young art student, Alton was insatiable in his self-expression and ALWAYS open to the creative process. He founded a performance art troupe which held monthly performances; he created his own Art Radio program; he wrote and performed in his own TV show on Austin Cable Access.
Since then he continues to impress me with his inventive energy, his creative output, and his steadfast dedication to living an Art Life. It is no surprise that he has continued to expand his artistic output and his ART-LIFE-BRAND as an artist. He has been so successful that he now regularly appears on NATIONAL TV, and exhibits across the country. I have, with great joy, year after year, watched him interacting with grace and confidence yet a wonderful humility, with all of the Big TV Stars!!!
I have happily and with pride, followed his career throughout the years, seeing him occasionally in NYC where he lived for over a decade. I have also watched his return to Texas after his hero’s journey of living and working on both coasts. His social engagement and performance art practice of getting elected to city council is inspiring and true to the ability of artists to make an art of life, even political life. His love for his hometown Splendora Texas is about a collaborative activism and he has shown a love for his family and extended family by becoming a political spokesperson .
It has been a pleasure being the teacher, mentor, collaborator and friend to Alton DuLaney for over 20 years.
I first met him when he was an undergraduate student at UT Austin. I was teaching Performance Art and The History of Performance Art at the University for seven years there. Even as a young art student, Alton was insatiable in his self-expression and ALWAYS open to the creative process. He founded a performance art troupe which held monthly performances; he created his own Art Radio program; he wrote and performed in his own TV show on Austin Cable Access.
Since then he continues to impress me with his inventive energy, his creative output, and his steadfast dedication to living an Art Life. It is no surprise that he has continued to expand his artistic output and his ART-LIFE-BRAND as an artist. He has been so successful that he now regularly appears on NATIONAL TV, and exhibits across the country. I have, with great joy, year after year, watched him interacting with grace and confidence yet a wonderful humility, with all of the Big TV Stars!!!
I have happily and with pride, followed his career throughout the years, seeing him occasionally in NYC where he lived for over a decade. I have also watched his return to Texas after his hero’s journey of living and working on both coasts. His social engagement and performance art practice of getting elected to city council is inspiring and true to the ability of artists to make an art of life, even political life. His love for his hometown Splendora Texas is about a collaborative activism and he has shown a love for his family and extended family by becoming a political spokesperson .
In November I asked him to collaborate with me on my INTERACTIONARAMA/ENDURANCE at the Vortex Theatre in Austin. It is a three hour Meditation on the Life of my Father. Alton's performance brought a level of dedication and his participation was true to my concept and definitely aided in honoring my father and the need for all to become conversant with all aspects of life and impermanence.
I am more than assured that Alton would bring that same level of artistic integrity to the Core Program, and it is without hesitation that I highly recommend him for this esteemed position.
If I can be of any more assistance, please feel free to be in contact: lindamontano@hotmail.com
In Life and in Art,
Linda Mary Montano
Linda Mary Montano
Performance Artist
2018, Saugerties NY
PAUL SMART: WOODSTOCK TIMES:
PAUL SMART: WOODSTOCK TIMES: ON LINDA MARY MONTANO
Linda Montano’s ‘Art/Life Instructions’
Linda Mary Montano: 14 Years of Living Art, a new “220-page portable book/archive” getting launched with an event at Golden Notebook (29 Tinker Street, Woodstock) at 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 27, charts the Saugerties’ native’s influential endurance performance art from 1984 to 1998 via the groundbreaking feminist artist’s journal writings, tantric tales, essays and interviews, instructions and “Art/Life instructions.” It includes drawings and photos of a period during which she lived in her Kingston home wearing strictly monochromatic clothing while spending a portion of every day in a colored room, listening to a designated tone, all of which corresponded to the energetic qualities of a specific chakra. That was followed by a memorialization of her mother during which she re-concentrated on the chakras and used various mystic traditions to found an Art/Life practice that sharpened one’s approach to living to a mindfulness akin to the best performative art.
Her later descriptions of these years, and this performance, ended up being described in her own words as a series of lessons learned: “Intuition is a good friend; irony is sometimes better; Giving ourselves the absolutely best job that we need to ‘shine’ is inherent in our nature; Self-discipline can never become self-punishment or it will backfire; If you need to be a priest, and are a woman, then make rules that are non-consequential, creative and fun and proceed to break them so you can forgive yourself; Life will open the chakras much more naturally than an imposed discipline ever could if the intention is in place…”
“The purpose of art is to create a silent mind and open heart; the art is secondary to the purpose and when the purpose is achieved, art can be dropped if it is an impediment to consciousness; It takes courage, art sponsors, curators, collectors, archivists, friends, critics, art historians, etc. to co-create work that is non-conversant with the mainstream…
I recall first running into Montano during a year, from summer 1983 to summer 1984, when she stayed bound to Taiwanese performance artist Tehching Hsieh by 12 foot length of rope continuously. At first, as young persons fresh to New York City’s Tribeca area, we’d scoff whenever we saw the two in a local triangular park, dead serious, often silent. Over time, that performance shifted in my memory, becoming increasingly stoic and meaningful as a means of approaching my own life.
More recently, we’ve seen Montano collect and exhibit two dimensional works at Manhattan’s Riverside Church, perform with and as local artist/musician Paul McMahon (as well as Bob Dylan), and learned more about her many connections to others in the rising field of performative art, including years of deep friendship and quiet collaboration with the late Pauline Oliveros.
What to expect from Saturday’s performance, and this book getting launched? Anything, including readings and a promised “interactivearama by Montano with the audience,” on the one hand. Catharis and a mysterious conjunction between deep spirituality and the purest art concentration, as well. And likely other elements that may take years to transform into various shapes, and effects, within one’s evolving memory and sense of self and world.
Linda Mary Montano: 14 Years of Living Art launches at 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 27 at 29 Tinker Street in Woodstock. For more information, see goldennotebook.com, lindamontano.com, or the book’s publisher, C.X. Silver Gallery in Brattleboro, VT, at cxsilvergallery.com/linda-mary-montano/.
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