RESUME

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 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 from 1984-1998. Her video MITCHELL'S DEATH, is a classic and has been shown internationally and her six books: ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE; YOU TOO ARE A PERFORMANCE ARTIST; MILDRED'S DEATH; LETTERS FROM LINDA M MONTANO; YOU TOO ARE A PERFORMANCE ARTIST & 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.

ART/LIFE COUNSELING: TALK WITH ME/I WRITE FOR YOU is an interactive performance. I have been performing ART/LIFE COUNSELING since 1984 when I sat in THE NEW MUSEUM window, once a month for 7 years and offered counseling, thanks to Marcia Tucker's invitation. Participantsat ENACTING THE TEXT, will be able to ask me one art or life question and then we will both create a "solution" for that question. The text component will be a graduation certificate which I will write and offer each collaborator.

THE FATHER HARTY DRUM CORPS

TTHE  FATHER HARTY DRUM CORPS  



 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-5WB7atF78

THE FATHER HARTY DRUM CORPS

TTHE  FATHER HARTY DRUM CORPS  






 




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-5WB7atF78

THE VISIT OF GABRIEL AND HIS PARENTS, SHARON AND PETER 2016

THE VISIT OF GABRIEL AND HIS PARENTS: SHARON AND PETER


At 9 months old, he is already living up to and using the powers of his name: Gabriel the archangel-archetype and bringer of Announcements and superior communication as referenced by the Annunciation; an event where said Angel allegedly told the Virgin Mary or maybe asked her to give birth to the Son of God via the impregnation of the Divine Holy Ghost.
That Angel did not visit but a 9 month old Bronx boy named Gabriel, another version of the announcer of great things, came to Saugerties NY, and began doing holy things, like infants do. His version was to point a lot with tiny fingers of authority indicating without saying, "Hey, you over there, the one I'm pointing to/at, I'm vibrating at the frequency of Delta waves, the slowest and most spiritual ones you can get and I'm sending them to you. Yes, to you and you too, over there, next to her. I'm sending innocent/pure/ecstatic silences to you and mom and dad too.  And I might as well point to the sky and send some there as well. Mother Earth needs all the good wishes she can get these days." We watched, they not so aghast as I was; they see/feel this daily.
That said and done, his gestures, look and good intentions did stop us all ----no more talking about Alaska, or babysitters, no more stories of lightning strikes and rubber tires, no more noshing on faux empanadas with sour cream. Our Beta brains, he in his look and gestures, cleared of worry and train ride plans and many other broadcasted maladies of matter-mind-madness. He elicited Silence.
At 9 months old, the Delta vibrating Guru was shown his new Rosary gift and pointed emphatically that he wanted it unstrapped from the card it was attached to so that he could touch it? Bless it? Play with it? Foregoing his mother's generous breast when he seemed restless and his father's lap, the little Guru, still sitting in the center of our rapt circle on the rainbow blanket my mother knit in the 70's, this little beautiful One held up the red heart see through beads of 5 decades of lots of Hail Marys, moved them around as if wanting these beads to catch the August sun rays  and allowed us to be yet again mystified by his ability to channel grace.
After we traded with him, giving him a garish, generic plastic pair for everyday use, he indicated that it was time to go, that his Darshana/Sadhana was complete and the purpose of his visit accomplished.
Gabriel, the 9 month old infant, had announced in all of his pure innocence that we had been with the Spirit and that it was IN Us. We all got IT and didn't even have to put a cent in a collection basket because this Church was Love and  is FREE.


Linda Mary Montano, 2016, Saugerties NY

RULES FOR PERFORMANCE ART CLASSES

RULES FOR PERFORMANCE ART  CLASS

Linda Montano’s:  Performance Art Rules for College Students

No blood

No urine

No cutting

No dangerous actions to self or others

No menstrual blood

No self-abuse or other-abuse

No masturbation

No sex

Make it safe, sacred, and short

Thank you!

POSSIBILITIES FOR SWEDEN

POSSIBILITIES FOR SWEDEN
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1. INTERACTIVE PERFORMATIVE LECTURE:  INTERACTIONARAMA: I ask the audience to interact with me in a series of exercises designed to:
PURIFY TOGETHER
GRIEVE TOGETHER
HAVE GRATITUDE TOGETHER
CELEBRATE TOGETHER


Needed:
1. mic with reverb: hand held or lavalier
2. another hand held mic
3. you download 2 videos of mine from you tube and I show two more videos, not mine.
4. lighting
5. rehearsal time : one hour if all videos are downloaded
6. 40 printed ART/LIFE CERTIFICATES
7. time: about 1 hour 15 minutes


This has been a very successful event at other places.


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7 HOUR GLANDATHON:
For 7 hours I lay down, singing the sounds found in the 7 glands. I make sound continuously.
7 Volunteers ,each representing a gland, dressed in one of the colors of the rainbow, perform actions associated with that gland and after an hour, ring a bell and inform me that the hour is over. The next  "gland" person comes and I move my attention to the next  gland.
The volunteers can be from the art community and they receive a performance art certificate.
Needed:
1. soft blankets for the floor
2. newspaper flowers to make a circle around me
3. I can bring my Indian Drone box or you can find one there to borrow. (its heavy)
4. mic placed over my face
5. another mic for audience to sing to the gland improvisationally
6. time: 7 hours.
7. lighting, dramatic
8. a projection of a tv news program on the back wall playing the entire time.
9. rehearsal 1-2 hours


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7 HOURS OF LOVING YOU IN A 14 FOOT LIFT


I sit in a 14 foot lift , outside or inside, and chant/sing:  I love you in Swedish, dressed like a chicken.
Needed:
1. a lift
2. microphone for me
3. microphone for audience
4. drone machine
5. rehearsal, 1 hour.
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WELCOME TO MY MA

WELCOME TO MY  MA

new mothers
transgendered  mothers
good enough mothers
Amazonian mothers
fierce mothers
speaking mothers
fleshy mothers
feeding mothers
milk mothers
Amen