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The Death Tapes

Linda Mary Montano

02:54:24

Collection: Compilations , Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Aging, Body, Death and Dying, Performance, Religion/Spirituality, Ritual, VDB Interviews

The Death Tapes

VDB is proud to present Linda Montano's The Death Tapes. Originally trained as a sculptor, Linda Montano began using video in the 1970s. She is a seminal figure in contemporary feminist performance art and her work has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about women. Attempting to obliterate the distinction between art and life, Montano's artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual discipline.

The titles featured here explore notions of impermanence and death, and are accompanied by a recent interview with Linda Montano by curator Janet Dees.

(Image Credit: Gisela Gamper)

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. - See more at: http://www.lindamontano.com/#sthash.ZvMXt2NE.dpuf
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. - See more at: http://www.lindamontano.com/#sthash.ZvMXt2NE.dpuf
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. - See more at: http://www.lindamontano.com/#sthash.ZvMXt2NE.dpuf
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. - See more at: http://www.lindamontano.com/#sthash.ZvMXt2NE.dpuf
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. - See more at: http://www.lindamontano.com/#sthash.ZvMXt2NE.dpuf
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. - See more at: http://www.lindamontano.com/#sthash.ZvMXt2NE.dpuf
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. - See more at: http://www.lindamontano.com/#sthash.ZvMXt2NE.dpuf

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Linda Mary Montano

Mitchell's Death

1977| 00:22:20

Mitchell's Death

Using performance as a means of personal transformation and catharsis, Mitchell’s Death mourns the death of Montano’s ex-husband. Every detail of her story, from the telephone call announcing the…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Death and Dying, Performance, Religion/Spirituality, Ritual, Video History

Linda Mary Montano

On Death and Dying

1982| 00:22:10

On Death and Dying

Three nuns in dark sunglasses sit at a table playing cards while a nurse is inteviewed about "what death looks like” on the soundtrack. As the nurse speaks, in medical detail, of death as a natural…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Death and Dying, Performance, Religion/Spirituality

Linda Mary Montano

Benares

1998| 00:27:04

Benares

"In 1997 I went to Benares, India to study the Hindu practice of burning the bodies of their dead on the Ganges ghats. My purpose was:1. To become more at ease with death, a hidden western…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Aging, Death and Dying, Expedition/Travel, Religion/Spirituality

Linda Mary Montano

Living Art/Dying Art

2014| 00:42:44

Living Art Dying Art

In the late 1990’s I presented a slide lecture on how my art references impermanence and dying. In 2014, video artist and editor Tobe Carey scanned the slides from the lecture and we collaged…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Aging, Death and Dying, Performance

Linda Mary Montano

My Mother Artist and Teacher

2016| 00:13:17

My Mother, Artist and Teacher

My mother's life and death were both extraordinarily epic. A painter who art therapized herself out of depression. Her resiliency could have rewarded her with a Badge of Courage; alchemizing trauma…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Aging, Death and Dying, Family, Performance

Linda Mary Montano

I'm Dying — My Last Performance

2015| 00:00:29

I'm Dying

I once read a story about the Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche in a book by death-teacher, Steven Levine. Trungpa went into his son's room and said to him, "I'm dying." And then he…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Aging, Death and Dying, Performance

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Linda M. Montano 2016: An Interview

2016| 00:46:20

Linda M Montano 2016: An Interview

Linda Montano is interviewed by Janet Dees, Curator at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University. Since the 1960s, Linda Montano has aimed to blur the distinction between art and life…

Collections: On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Tags: Death and Dying, Interview, Performance, Religion/Spirituality, VDB Interviews