Lying, sitting and standing in Times Square NYC

ATM NYC Series

I was advised by my supervisor and HODs to go with this idea and scrap all my other work. This removes the performer's body completely, I put an email address within the underwear on a tissue for anyone to write to me. The words "share" and "exchange" refer to both the sexual act and the taboo actions of getting money out of the ATM, both private actions. Putting money in and out of machines and taking a tissue out of women's underwear is a provocative action also referencing stripping and consuming/eating. It also looks like a period pad. The words are also asking for someone to email me, so there is the implication of contact exchange, anonymous online sharing, perhaps even dating. Perhaps the work implies sexual violence, abuse or soliciting; sex work. Whether someone emails or not has yet to be seen and what will be shared or exchanged also. Will this create a dialogue or go nowhere? I put these in ATMs around New York City at New years 2013. It can be done anywhere in the world and feels very perverted, like I am a criminal breaking the law. A protester, a feminist guerilla actionist. It is a performance in itself. If there is exchange it will be a miracle.

TAKING THE FLUIDS "FURTHER": NYC SUICIDE/MURDER BATHROOM CRIME SCENE: 'ANOTHER creative CHILD ABORTED' ANOTHER WOMAN'S ART WHICH IS "TOO PERSONAL" as CULPRIT/VICTIM as funny: Another finger pointed and PERIOD BLOOD AS MY PAINT IN PROTEST SPLATTERED

In response to the crit in NYC in which I was told the work was 'superficial' and 'too personal' and also 'let's see more fluids' (Mary Tan) I decided to document the next period and take fluids/dialogue further/deeper: which is NORMALISED AND UNSACRILISED/ UNSACRED AND SACRED AND TABOO AND NOT PAINFUL AND NOT VULNERABLE BECAUSE IT IS "EVERYDAY RITUAL" FOR ALL WOMEN ALONG WITH NUDITY FOR ALL HUMANS... and reinact a satirical crime scene/suicide in which i used my own period blood and objectified my own body as if it were a corpse, finger as a culprit, another creative child dead, another female artist whose work as body as political as normal as currency as nothing and everything UN/SACRED UN/POWERFUL... because I thought it was a comment on the art world. In NYC.

TAKING THE FLUIDS "FURTHER": NYC SUICIDE/MURDER BATHROOM CRIME SCENE: 'ANOTHER creative CHILD ABORTED' ANOTHER WOMAN'S ART WHICH IS "TOO PERSONAL" and vulnerable (lol!) as CULPRIT/VICTIM as funny: Another finger pointed and PERIOD BLOOD AS MY PAINT IN PROTEST SPLATTERED... "demonstration" of attacking criticism, my creativity as my fertility, bleeding and LAUGHING.... as it bleeds, on the NYC bathroom floor "gross". All cliches of course. Hype, media and art. Women's body, currency, art, talk, demonstration, point, protest. Miss Understood. "Slaughtered". 

"You are the 'absurd', Your work creates discussion, this is the work"- John Wiener, Transart

"Yes I know, that is the point"- Alexa Wilson, former Transart

Performance for Winter Residency Crit 2012 NYC

https://vimeo.com/55405133


WOW 7000 HITS!!!! Good old nudity ay?
Shame it went down like a cold cup of sick in the winter residency. Guess no one was ready for it. Nudity is very normal, this is the point, we are naked everyday. We use money every day. It is sacred/unsacred. I felt like a buddha with them putting money on my body, but people refered to once again, stripping and prostitution. I am attempting to find new ways of looking at this relationship, not obvious and cliched ones. Shake it off ... YES!

Montreal St Laurent Sex Shops

Performance with Linda Montano and the Glandettes NYC

HEROES SERIES:
Interactive Artist Talk/Performance by Linda Mary Montano, Alec Duffy and the 7 Glandettes, followed by a 12-hour lock-in with selected participants

Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012
Artist Talk/Performance at 8 pm, Lock-in at 10 pm with the 7 GLANDETTES:PATRICIA FAOLLI, MEGAN MARZEC, KRISTIN GREY, GETE BERHE, DOMINIC BRADLEY, ALEXA WILSON AND LILY BENSON
Tickets: $5, to benefit JACK’s teen programs (no advanced purchase available)
(Press invited for 8 pm event. JACK is open to inquiries about covering the lock-in)

Join groundbreaking performance artist Linda Mary Montano , Alec Duffy and the 7 GLANDETTES for an interactive performance experience at JACK, the new arts space in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The evening will feature a talk/performance by Montano, which will include a screening of Mark Shaw’s video, Linda Mary Montano Celebrates Mother Teresa’s 100th Birthday at the Empire State Building, documenting Montano’s 2010 public performance as Mother Teresa with four "guardians" (Andrea Dominquez, Miss Toni Silver, Zhen Heinmann and Leah Aron). A 12-hour lock-in will follow, for which Montano has selected seven participants from a pool of applicants. The group will stay the night together, with Montano leading participants in a workshop, as well as eating and resting.
Linda Mary Montano is a pioneer in performance art. Since the 1960’s, she has explored how artistic ritual, often staged as individual interactions or collaborative workshops, can be used to enhance a person's daily life, to create the opportunity for attentional spiritual energy states, to encourage inner silence and to alter the cessation of art/life boundaries. Montano's work can be viewed at www.lindamontano.com, as well on her blog and on YouTube.

Dance at Moritzplatz Ubahn Station Berlin

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