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Linda Montano

11/24/2018

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Linda Mary Montano is a seminal figure in contemporary feminist performance art and her work since the mid 1960s has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her art/life 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, MOCA San Francisco and the ICA in London.  FULL BIO

Linda Montano is one of my absolute favourite artists. I was first drawn to her performance work which blurred gender boundaries. I am now more interested in the work which blurrs art and life and works with time and durational works that can span years. She lives and makes art with such strong intention and commitment. She also offers this challenge to others (life artists) to do the same. Here is a link to ANOTHER 21 YEARS OF LIVING ART 1998-2019.
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Hilma af klimt

11/5/2018

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In an age when men claimed primary status as creators, af Klint became a medium – the ultimate passive, receptive state – and used it to secure her independence; to be more than a copyist and decorator. At a time when strong spiritual currents like Theosophy, which adherents considered a science rather than a religion, achieved cult status, she studied a variety of wisdom traditions from the East and West along with Theosophy and Anthroposophy, without rejecting her Lutheran heritage and living by her own ascetic regimen.
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(This quote is linked to the article, a book review of With Great Force Swiftly and Surely, by Cindi Di Marz

Hilma af Klint has only very recently become known to the world although she was born in 1862 and passed in 1944. Upon her death she asked her nephew, who was left to manage her very extensive artistic estate, to wait 20 years after her death to show her work. af Klint felt that her work would not be understood at the time of her passing nor during her lifetime. She is now being called the first abstract painter, as her first series titled "Temple" was painted in 1906, which predates painters like Kandinsky and Mondrian who lay claims to being the first at abstract painting. af Klint considered the Temple series to be a commission as she received instruction from the spirit world which she described as coming to her "with great force swiftly and surely" without need for her own consideration, sketching or planning of any kind.  af Klint held seances and developed her spiritual practice with a group of women called The Five or the Friday Group (because they met every Friday!) In 1888 she joined the Theosophical Society and after this point her work focused primarily on painting her spiritual work and left landscape and portraiture behind. In these works af Klint developed a symbolic language that she documented extensively in  journals which remain in her estate, and now published. af Klint merged her artistic self with her spiritual and mediumship self to produce a phenomenal body of work, as well as her writings. 
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    I am a Therapeutic Touch ® practitioner registered through the BCTTNS. I am also an artist/weaver. I am interested in exploring here how these two aspects of my self co exist. I find much inspiration in the world around me.

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