GLANDATHON WORKSHOP
MONTANO will use this time interactively to collaborate with the artists present in a way that is instructive, informativeand celebratory. We all agree that to be cemented to a space without access to an escape is unfortunate, and so the intention of this gathering is to create community and some mutual, positive realizations in a short amount of time. To accomplish this, we will address the seven glands of the body via my website www.lindamontano.com and there will be eight performers selected from the audience to interact with the website. Everyone will be encouraged to dress in one color of the rainbow and there will be a chance for everyone to have a taste of 14 Years of Living Art, , Montano's experience of the seven energy centers of the body, 1984-1998. Videos will be shown as elucidations and verifiers of Montano's process and practice. There will be a visit from one of Montano's many personas. Please come dressed entirely in one color of the rainbow.
BIO
LINDA MARY MONTANO
Linda Mary Montano, trained in sculpture at The College of New Rochelle, BA; Villa Schifanoia, Florence, MA; University of Wisconsin, Madison, MFA, began performing 1970, and addressed concepts of silence and persona morphing, using aesthetic paradigms to induce a spiritual consciousness. She balanced this vision with a questioning humor. Always there has been a need to use art to practice and prepare for life and also a need to transform and transfer life traumas into art so that nothing is wasted and all is recycled. Endurance has been used as a raw material and way to mark time and teach awareness, via vow-taking; it comes from her Catholic training and two years in a convent. Performances, persona morphing, three books: Art in Everyday Life, Performance Artists Talking in the 80s, and Letters from Linda M. Montano, numerous videos, teaching and residencies at The Art/Life Institute are ways Montano explores her life as a "living sculpture."
