FRANKLIN FURNACE VIMEO: 21 HOUR DOCUMENT OF LINDA MARY MONTANO'S BIRTHDAY : JANUARY 18, 2022
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022
FOR BONNIE SHERK...... MEMORIAL
FOR BONNIE SHERK...... MEMORIAL
BONNIE SHERK: PERFORMANCE ARTIST/ECOLOGIST/HUMANIST: by LINDA MARY MONTANO
1.THANK YOU BONNIE FOR YOUR WONDERFULLY PERFORMATIVE STYLE AND COSTUMING IN CLOTHES/MAKE UP/BRACELETS/HATS AND SCARVES: YOU INSPIRE ME
2.THANK YOU BONNIE FOR WORKING BEHIND THE COUNTER IN A S.F DONUT SHOP BACK IN THE 70'S AND CALLING THAT ART: YOU INSPIRE ME
3.THANK YOU BONNIE FOR INTRODUCING ME TO YOUR PET PIG, (WAS SHE/HE CALLED PIGLET?) WHO LIVED WITH YOU IN YOUR S.F. STUDIO WHICH WAS FILLED WITH PLANTS AND OTHER ANIMALS AND YOU CALLED THAT STUDIO EITHER A FARM OR THE FARM: YOU INSPIRE ME
4. THANK YOU BONNIE FOR ALWAYS BEING TOTALLY CHARMING, FOR CHOOSING THE CORRECT BRIGHT RED LIPSTICK TO GO WITH YOUR GENEROUS SMILE, FOR CREATING INTRICATE AND MIND-BENDING WORD-PLAY, FOR BEING FILLED WITH LIFE-JOY, AND FOR SHOWERING ALL WITH HOPE IN NATURE: YOU INSPIRE ME
5.THANK YOU BONNIE FOR ACTING LIMITLESSLY AND FEARLESSLY WHEN IT CAME TO YOU GATHERING SUPPORTERS/BACKERS/FUNDERS/GRANTERS/BIG BUCKS FOR YOUR PROJECTS WHICH TAUGHT ECOLOGY/FOOD/GARDENING/SAFE NOURISHMENT/RESPECT FOR ANIMALS TO CHILDREN, YOUNG AND OLD: YOU INSPIRE ME
6.THANK YOU BONNIE FOR ASKING ME TO SPEAK WELL OF YOU FOR A JOB YOU WANTED TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL ART EVENTHOUGH YOU WERE VERY ILL AT THE TIME: YOUR LIMITLESSNESS AND UNSTOPPABLE VISION INSPIRE ME
7.THANK YOU BONNIE FOR CARRYING AND WEARING ILLNESS AS A FACT NOT A SENTENCE. BECAUSE OF THIS ATTITUDE YOU NEVER STOPPED YOURSELF FROM APPEARING ON ZOOM LECTURES EVEN WHEN OBVIOUSLY ILL, YOU NEVER STOPPED YOURSELF FROM DREAMING YOUR VISION PUBLICALLY, NEVER STOPPED YOURSELF FROM CONTINUING YOUR PRACTICE, EVEN TO THE END: YOU INSPIRE ME.
WE CONTINE BONNIE, TO ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR SMILE OF HOPE AND WE PROMISE TO BREATHE COURAGE TO OTHERS, COURAGE WHICH WE REMEMBER YOU GENEROUSLY SHARED WITH US.
BONNIE SHERK, YOUR PERFORMATIVE LIFE-JOY-ART IS A BLESSING.
LINDA
FEBRUARY 2022
Friday, January 28, 2022
21 HOURS BIRTHDAYARAMA VIA FRANKLIN FURNACE JANUARY 18, 2022
21 HOURS BIRTHDAYARAMA VIA FRANKLIN FURNACE JANUARY 18, 2022
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Mg2jnsG2qgh03YNcPrgqZIiD40NfjiDX?usp=sharing
THANK YOU LETTER TO PERFORMERS OF 21 HOUR BIRTHDAYARAMA FOR LINDA MARY MONTANO
THANK YOU LETTER TO PERFORMERS OF 21 HOUR BIRTHDAYARAMA FOR LINDA MARY MONTANO
FROM: LINDA MARY MONTANO:
DEAR ALL BIRTHDAY PERFORMERS,I will type this in small letters but please see it as allllll caps!!!!How can I put into words my gratitude and applause and smiles and bows for the heart filled BEAUTY that each of you offered during the 21 hours of celebration of life, celebration of art, celebration of PERFORMANCE ART?YOU ALL revealed PERFORMANCE ART'S abilities during those 21 hours:it's ability to clear the aire,its ability to clean the heart of the performer and viewer,its ability to treat karma with a free MEDICINE; the medicine of truth, the medicine of shock, the medicine of timeless transformation.....its ability to remind us that intuitive play, as art, is our true birthrightits ability to allow each of us to pray in our own way, to communicate in our own way, to heal in our own way, to save therapy money by doing it ourselves performatively in our own way, to dig into our shadow and SAFELY see the messages in our own way, to speak to unmet needs so we can walk through our lives in a sweet, kind new way....cleaned hearts.....During the 21 hours I moved through the 87,653 emotions allowed us at birth and thank you for the healings. Each of you.And all of this was made possible by the generous: CONCEIVERS OF THE IDEA/CURATORS OF THE PARTAYYYYYYYY/LOVE LETTER GATHERERS/TECHNICAL STAFF & OFFICE STAFF at:FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVEGRACE EXHIBITION SPACESTREAMSIDE 7THREE PHASE CENTERTHE INTERIOR BEAUTY SALONE.A.R.T.H. LAB SFUNISON ARTSAs you all saw from the SEAMLESS way that the 21 hours FLOWED, their dedication to timing and process and technology was impeccable. Also, their dedication to presenting each person perfectly was a true selfless gift for all of us to remember.May we all continue loving not only ourselves but truly practice the love of art in our lives and the love of life in our art! And may we support others to experience the healing joys of art.bawkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkChicken Lindacc. Arantxa Araujo, Franklin Furnace, Program DirectorPS - There have been over 100 performance/offerings. Video Documentation of the 21-hour event will be available on Franklin Furnace's website starting February 1st. Please visit or website to view the recording: https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/linda-mary-montano-bday/A PERFORMANCE ART SAINT OF LIFE AND ART CERTIFICATE
I __Name:_______________________ HEREBY DECLARE THAT I AM A BONAFIDE PERFORMANCE ARTISTAND THAT I MAKE AN ART OF MY LIFE AND MY LIFE IS A WORK OF ART.MY DWELLING IS A WORK OF ART, MY JOB IS A WORK OF ART, MY RELATIONSHIPS ARE WORKS OF ART,MY FEELINGS ARE WORKS OF ART AND I OFTEN DO NOT NEED TO DOCUMENT THESE PRACTICESBUT SIMPLY LIVE THEM AS LIFE/ART. I AM AN ART SAINT.LINDA MARY MONTANO HAS WITNESSED MY DEDICATION TO ART AND LIFE AND HAS DECLARED THATI AM WORTHY OF THIS PRETIGIOUS TITLE: SAINT. I WILL NEVER DOUBT MY TITLE AND I WILL CONTINUETO ACT SAINTLY IN MY LIFE AND ART.THIS CERTIFICATE IS BESTOWED ON ME BY: LINDA MARY MONTANOFOUNDER OF THE ART/LIFE INSTITUTE & TRANSFIGURATION HOSPITALLINDA MARY MONTANO
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
21 HOUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: 80TH BIRTHDAY LINDA MARY MONTANO
21 HOUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: 80TH BIRTHDAY LINDA MARY MONTANO
21 ( 3X7=21) HOURS OF LINDA MARY MONTANO'S 80TH BIRTHDAYARAM
Organized by Franklin Furnace’s The Loft, Grace Exhibition Space, Streamside 7, E.A.R.T.H. Lab S.F., Three Phase Center, and The Interior Beauty Salon
DATE&TIME OF THE 21 HOUR ZOOM: January 18, 2022, 7 AM-4 AM ET
THE ZOOM: Join us for part or the full length of this 21-hour ZOOM endurance broadcast to celebrate Linda Mary Montano’s amazing legacies, teachings, videos and art/life. During this historic event, performance artists, lifeists and organizations around the Earth will connect online to perform, tell stories related to Linda Mary Montano, remember stories from her times teaching, and watch intermittently, throughout this program some of her videos made in collaboration with Tobe Carey, video editor, and Jim Barbaro, sound engineer. All are more than welcome to share a 1-3 minutes Laugh/Cry, a performance of your choice, read her your Letter-to-Linda or share a "be Linda" re-enactment!! A fun and easy time will be had by ALL!!
Linda will be present on Zoom for the 21 hours.
This event is FREE but RSVP is required
ABOUT LINDA MARY MONTANO:
Montano is a performance artist and her work since the mid 1960s has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about making art in order to heal, understand and celebrate this short life journey. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her unresolved questions through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven 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, MoMA, MOCA San Francisco, and ICA in London. Montano created 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART: 1984-1998, A 7 Chakra Experience; and ANOTHER 21 YEARS OF LIVING ART 1998-2019: A FREE ONLINE SCHOOL FOR PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTATION. She has placed over 60 of her videos free on YouTube.
Montano’s websites: Archive / Video Data Bank / Fales Library at NYU / Blog / Youtube Channel
Publications: Linda Mary Montano: You Too Are a Performance Artist / Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties / Midred’s Death / My Last Book (upcoming) / Before and After Art/Life Counseling / 14 Years of Living Art / The Sculpture of Linda Mary Montano / Art in Everyday Life / Letters from Linda Mary Montano / The Art Life Institute Handbook (to download click HERE)
Montano wishes to thank her art-life mentors: Magdalena Kelly / Mildred and Henry Montano / Mother Mary Jane / Mitchell Payne /Shri Brahmananda Saraswati / Kalu Rimpoche / Pauline Oliveros / Lester Ingber /Luba Donskoj / Dr.Aruna Mehta.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS:
Franklin Furnace: Franklin Furnace's mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, cultural bias, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content. Franklin Furnace is dedicated to serving artists by providing both physical and virtual venues for the presentation of time-based art, including but not limited to artists' books and periodicals, installation art, performance art, and unforeseen contemporary avant-garde artforms; and to undertake other activities related to these purposes. Franklin Furnace is committed to serving emerging artists; to assuming an aggressive pedagogical stance with regard to the value of avant-garde art to life; and to fostering artists' zeal to broadcast ideas. http://www.franklinfurnace.org
Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art. Grace Exhibition Space presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 400 performance artists from across the United States and the world since 2006. https://www.grace-exhibition-space.com
Streamside 7 is an incubator space for building community through the arts by developing relationships with self/others, material/process, by organizing and hosting workshops, residencies, performances and happenings. By working collaboratively and blurring the boundaries between art, life and encouraging participation so that everyone can become an empowered agent of personal, social, and ecological transformation. Streamside 7 honors our wisdom keepers, the natural world and acknowledges we gather on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Munsee Lenape people. https://www.streamside7.com
E.A.R.T.H. Lab S.F. builds community by creating multidisciplinary art projects that envision the Earth and all of its beings with fresh eyes. Our organization questions and expands prevailing notions of environmental art, challenges the mainstream’s binary concepts of gender, sexuality, and race, incorporates inclusive, diverse, and imaginative possibilities for sustainable living. Our art and archival projects promote love, tolerance, and peace. https://www.earthlabsf.org
Three Phase Center is a space for organizing and presenting art projects and perception building situations that stimulate the type of community and dialogue that generate new perceptions, possibilities, and outcomes. Located in Stone Ridge, NY Three Phase Center is a place to articulate with information derived from experimental approaches of any sort including process-based projects, performance art, sculpture, video, photography, or sound and is dedicated to reframing the utility of art practices that aim to sort and solve problems of language and perception. Three Phase Center is a Woman-led organization. https://www.threephasecenter.com
The Interior Beauty Salon is an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing and serves as a space where that which is not necessarily seen or manifested in tangible ways, is seeded, nurtured and given room to grow safely. This includes processes melding art, ritual, ceremony, rites of passage, and consciousness. Now in its second year, The Salon, has hosts an expanding online archive of interviews, videos, and archive of all of its engagements with visionaries in a diverse number of creative fields and unprescribed ways of being and approaching life. https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com
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