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"Linda Montano is the ultimate practitioner of art in life, life in art. These conversations with other artists about four primal aspects of the everyday—sex, food, money, death—uncover the heart, the nerve, and the scar tissue behind some of the late 20th century's edgiest work."—C.Carr, The Village Voice
List of contents
Preface by Linda M. Montano
Introduction: Shall We Talk? Linda M. Montano Performs
Autobiographical Voices, by Angelika Festa
PART ONE sex
Introduction by Christine Tamblyn
Vito Acconci
Philip Corner
Paul Cotton
Karen Finley
Vanalyne Green
Lynn Hershman
Dick Higgins
Laurel Klick
Steven Kolpan
Jill Kroesen
Robert Kushner
Minnette Lehmann
Lydia Lunch
Paul McCarthy
Tim Miller
Frank Moore and Linda Mac
Vernita Nemec
Pat Oleszko
Carolee Schneemann
Barbara Smith
Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera
Hannah Wilke
PART TWO food
Introduction by Moira Roth
Jerri Allyn
Nancy Barber
John Cage
Angelika Festa
Howard Fried
Joan Jonas
Alison Knowles
Leslie Labowitz
Suzanne Lacy
Les Levine
Antoni Miralda
Susan Mogul
Faith Ringgold
Rachel Rosenthal
Martha Rosler
Richard Schechner
Bonnie Sherk
Stuart Sherman
Anne Tardos and Jackson Mac Low
PART THREE money/fame
Introduction by Laura Cottingham
Eleanor Antin
Robert Ashley
Bob and Bob
Eric Bogosian
Nancy Buchanan
Linda Frye Burnham
Papo Colo
Lowell Darling
Steven Durland
Simone Forti
Mel Henderson
Julia Heyward
Mikhail Horowitz
Allan Kaprow
Tom Marioni
Meredith Monk
Jim Pomeroy
Willoughby Sharp
Michael Smith
Martin Von Haselberg
Martha Wilson
PART FOUR ritual/death
Introduction by Lucy R. Lippard
Marina Abramovicˇ and Ulay
Helene Aylon
Chris Burden
John Cage
Ping Chong
George Coates
Betsy Damon
Terry Fox
Cheri Gaulke
Alex Grey
Deborah Hay
Geoffrey Hendricks
Donna Henes
Kim Jones
Alistair MacLennan
Ann Magnuson
Ruth Maleczech
Paul McMahon
Ana Mendieta
Hermann Nitsch
Lorraine O’Grady
Morgan O’Hara
Pauline Oliveros
Adrian Piper
Jerome Rothenberg
Brian Routh
Robert Schuler
Theodora Skipitares
Stelarc
Elaine Summers
Fiona Templeton
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
William Wegman
Paul Zaloom
Ellen Zweig
Afterword: Quicksilver and Revelations: Performance Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, by Kristine Stiles
Biographies
Index
About the author
Linda M. Montano is a performance artist and the founder of The Art/Life Institute in Kingston, New York. She has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, San Francisco State University, Ohio State University the Chicago Art Institute, the University of California at Los Angeles, Temple University, and the University of Texas.
Summary
Features more than 100 performance artists' interviews that highlight complex issues in performance art, including the role of identity in performer-audience relationships and art as an exploration of everyday conventions rather than a demonstration of virtuosity.
