Linda Montano: Laugh/Cry with the Chakras

Name: Linda Montano: Laugh/Cry with the Chakras
Start: 2024-07-14T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-14T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Kleinert/James Art Center

Schedule

Sun Jul 14 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Kleinert/James Art Center | Woodstock, NY

The workshop will consist of group sound, movement and performative interactions based on Montano's 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART, a Chakra Endurance. Please bring a blanket/ matt and if you wish dress entirely in your favorite Chakra color.
Linda Mary Montano trained as a sculptor but when she discovered performance in 1969, she became a Living Sculpture, performing as Chicken Woman, Bob Dylan , Mother Teresa and Paul McMahon.
Montano’s interest and explorations are primarily centered around healing as art, aging, and death. For example in a performance at the Dorsky Museum the artist was laying in a coffin during the opening and closing reception, while visitors lined up to pay their respects. After the 3 hour “ endurance”, Montano resurrected from the coffin and danced with everyone at the opening.
Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experiences, autobiographical videos and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly real, brave and is often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide ranging – she has taught at many universities and has been featured at museums including The New Museum in New York, MOCA San Francisco and the ICA in London. Now in her 80’s, she is practicing the ART OF LIFE.
photo by Dion Ogust