A video collage that chronicles the issues and events that arose in Linda M. Montano’s life while she devoted a year to each of the seven chakras. Beginning as a piece devoted to themes of commitment and limitation, the work becomes a fascinating hybrid of art and life, as Montano experiences the onset of menopause, her mother’s death, her choice to enter and then leave a convent, the suffering of a stroke, and thoughts of her own death—all within the structural confines of an intense work of art. Contributors to the work include Ellen Fullman, Gisela Gamper, and Annie Sprinkle.
Linda M. Montano's Seven Years of Living Art
Maida Barbour
1994 00:13:13 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3VideoDescription
About Maida Barbour
Maida Barbour made the title Linda M. Montano's Seven Years of Living Art while working on her MFA in film at the University of Texas-Austin. She later installed Richard Linklater's Countdown/ Tailout Mural #2 (1998) in the lobby of the American Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY).