VIRTUAL RESIDENCY WITH
LINDA M. MONTANO

DEFINITION OF PERFORMANCE ART:

Performance art is a tool which assists artists to ecstatically feel/face Life/life.

 

The ART/LIFE VIRTUAL RESIDENCY is a self-conducted course culminating in the award of a PERFORMANCE ART SAINT CERTIFICATE from Linda M. Montano’s Art/Life Institute. The virtual residency is divided into six sections, each with a specific exercise. See below:

12 STEPS OFPERFORMANCE ARTISTS ANONYMOUS
PERFORMANCE ASSIGNMENT
FORM AN ART/LIFE COMMUNITY
BLOOD FAMILY ART
THE ART OF AGING
ASK A QUESTION

When you finish an exercise, check the box in that section, and move on to the next section using the color-coded menu or arrows above. After completing one or more of the exercises go to CERTIFICATE; then fill in your name and click the submit button for your printable PERFORMANCE ART SAINT CERTIFICATE.

 

 

12 STEPS OF
PERFORMANCE ARTISTS ANONYMOUS
(All steps to be read in a whisper or slurred voice.)

  1. We admitted that we are powerless over Performance Art and that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. We came to believe that an art greater than ours could restore us to sanity.
  3. We made a decision to turn our will and loves over to the care of the Higher Artist as we understood that artist.
  4. We made a searching and fearless inventory of our past performances.
  5. We admitted to the Higher Artist, ourselves and another person the exact nature of our past performances.
  6. We were ready to have the Higher Artist remove all of the defects of our art/life.
  7. We humbly asked the Higher Artist to remove our shortcomings.
  8. We made a list of audiences we had offended and critics we had outraged and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. We made amends and apologies except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we had foolish performance ideas/concepts, we promptly admitted it and didn't do that performance.
  11. We sought through silence to improve our contact with the Higher Artist as we understood this Artist and asked to know this Artist's will. We also asked for the opportunity to do their Concept, not ours.
  12. We tried to tell other performance artists about these principles and practiced them in every aspect of our art/life.

 

 

PERFORMANCE ASSIGNMENT

What is your current issue? Food, sex, money, fame, etc,

Write down an action, time sequence, color, sound, aroma that comes to mind when you think of your issue.

Create a private, safe, healthy, wise and beneficial scenario that you perform for yourself. Repeat it until your issue becomes a friend and not a contamination in your mind. Then taste the beauty of the silent mind, the result of having performed the thoughts.

Be quiet.

 

 

FORM AN ART/LIFE COMMUNITY

Advertise locally for anyone interested in meeting weekly/monthly/yearly to perform for each other. Make sure the guidelines promote safety, healing, meditative honesty and responsibility to each other on all levels. Be safe but enjoy passionately! (This requires skill.)

 

BLOOD FAMILY ART

Move home. Live in your old room. Make it a performance but practice secretly so nobody knows or is offended. Grow to know yourself and your family of origin, blood family, and relatives. Rescue your inner-child from the past and give her/him a large birthday party when you truly graduate into life in the way you envision as healthy and responsible.

 

THE ART OF AGING

Do not do a thing about your aging that might be seen as invasive. Watch the sculpting of time on the body. Call it art.

 

ASK A QUESTION

Email me with one question about your art/life.
Please only one per person.


lindamontano@hotmail.com

 

 

PERFORMANCE ART SAINT CERTIFICATE

Presented by Linda M. Montano, founder of THE ART/LIFE INSTITUTE, Kingston, NY.

I, certify that I have completed one or more of the proceding performance art assignments, and am deserving of the title "PERFORMANCE ART SAINT "