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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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The Star: Berlin "10x6" Series at Ada Studio

Performing at Ada/Ufer studios Berlin "10 times 6" performance series. Nove 10/11 2012.

Description: Born out of a workshop with Vincent Riebeek in NZ in 2012 and prior work 'The Star' explores satirical and embodied notions using 'psychomagic' (Jodorowsky) of the tarot card of the Star (pulled in the workshop), interweaving a response to today's problematic relationship of humans to the environment and our 'needs' to be a 'Star' within a warped media culture, which overlooks a greater respect slightly more pressing. Drawing upon a complex embodiment of the Star card, the work interweaved the character of the superstar with the high priestess, struggling to present the news, the weather, chaotic weather patterns, impossible emotions in relation to superficial presentation, consumerism and attempts to find what the meaning of the 'Star' tarot card is. It represents hope, optimism and inspiration. She is seen pouring water, so I pour water onto the stage and lick it up off the floor. Among other things, like embodying a news reader/weather presenter/a woman giving birth to a camera, a sunbather, a cleaner, blood, flood, fragmentation, and a bound connection to technology, struggling to find its own bodily identity.

https://vimeo.com/53432804

Tarot Card reading on the Berlin Train system: Failure

 

 

This was a complete failure on all levels. The idea as suggested by Karin Hofko was to do free readings for people on the train system in Berlin as a replacement for payment of the train to demonstrate an alternative form of expressing female embodiment/arguably 'healing' in an erotic fashion (this kind of occult female knowledge is largely not valued in society since the witch burning days). However, while I bought a day card for my camera woman Daniela Gast, I was caught within the first stop by the ticket controllers, who got very aggressive that she was filming and refused to engage until she turned the camera off, while we were saying it was for my performance. They threatened to take us to the police and were very focused on the camera over me not having a ticket. I gave them 40 euro for the fine and they gave me a ticket receipt. I offered them a card but they refused. Then the camera was having problems, and did not seem to record that incident properly, most of which we caught audio of. It was glitching and does not transfer in editing, so we used my digital camera to video instead.

Then each person we approached on the trains and at the station declined an offer for a reading as if i were asking them for something. I was offering them something free, but the transience and the association with beggars seemed to be an overwhelming factor. Daniela, who is from Berlin, also said she thinks the German/Berlin attitude is very distrusting, very rational and that this kind of offer would be considered very strange. Even children who were staring, declined. Everyone looked afraid or simply disinterested.

This project failed completely from the beginning. Proven to me was the immovability of this system. While I often do not pay for it, I tend to be careful about where I go. I was caught on the U2 main line friday afternoon. It felt like being inside a very rigid system which was unable to in any way facilitate an alternative or playful process of deconstruction relating to money systems/female erotic emodiment. Clearly this was an absolute NO GO. No humour was seen in the process, people took it very seriously. Perhaps it was the time of day, week and season. It didn't matter speaking english or german, people were not open to it.

Yoga Poses in front of Commercial centres in Berlin's Alexanderplatz

 

 

 

 

The focus for these yoga poses this time was not to get tourists to take photos, they were taken by Daniela Gast, a collaborator. The focus was on juxtaposing the organic nature of the poses, which can also be interpreted gesturally as sexual in their attempt to 'open' the body for health reasons, which putting a private practice into public spaces which are commercially associated in Berlin's Mitte (centre). Once again, many people stopped to stare as if it were a street performance, but less like infront of monuments, they mostly wandered past in detached half present consumer mode.
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Love Is a Free Act: Geld Automaten/ATM's in Berlin

This piece was a response to Gabrielle New's suggestion of working with the power play over how money gets put into strippers underwear in strip clubs. Rather than wanting to embody this with an actual body or my body I was interested in the removal of the body and more of a guerilla interactive installation, which in the end felt like a form of protest. 

I made the connection between the sexual connotations of putting a money card into a machine and taking money out or vice versa in a similar way to a sexual action and this way that money is put into strippers underwear. I wanted something where the connotation is taken off money or giving and taking, rather placed on this idea of giving a free message and attaching a pen with other pieces of paper so that other messages could also be written. The simple message I wrote in this version was "Love is a free act" and also in german, being Berlin "Liebe ist ein Freier Akt" so that the connection between paying for sexual intimacy be returned to a consideration of an exchange made with is based on mutual respect, rather than the dynamics or power of money exchange. 

I bought 5 pairs of white underwear and went into a combination of banks inside to their machines and left the message and also the geld automaten directly on the street in the day and at night. Particularly going into a bank to do this under cameras and past security felt as if I was engaging in some kind of illegal activity and it also felt incredibly perverse to put women's underwear over the top of money machines. I left the underwear there and have no idea how people responded. I was not willing to attempt to document from afar or risk being caught inside a bank for this.

This left me really wondering about how someone would react, a couple of men saw me doing it, one inside a bank and one in the street and they were distracted and disinterested, perhaps semi amused. I also wondered what different areas would be like, as doing this in Friedrichshain is completely different from Neukölln or Charlottenburg or Mitte in Berlin. 

It felt very subversive, definitely as if it were a protest against the selling of women's bodies for sex, associating the everyday underwear object with the everyday money machine in a metaphor for putting money or objects into women's clothing or taking them out. It was a very big question mark and the absence of body, the lack of knowing how someone would respond, somehow makes it even more detached or removed- like our consumerist culture and its economic consumption of sex and women's bodies. Direct engagement with the banking system and its all seeing eye was terrifying and I felt the outsiderness of expressing an alternative to ways of viewing the female erotic body as if i were a pervert or a criminal- very much in a Foucauldian demonstration of power particularly relating to the panopticon and self policing. 

This is not a famous body

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