O+ ARTIST: Performance by Linda Montano, co-hosted by the IONE Dream Festival

Photo by Minette Lehmann

7-HOUR GLANDATHON will be performed by renowned artist LINDA MARY MONTANO and friends on Sunday at the O+ Fest. The performance will be presented in collaboration with IONE'S 15th Annual DREAM FESTIVAL, a program of  Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

From 1984-1998,  Montano  performed  14 YEARS OF LIVING ART which was based on the 7 chakras. She wore one color clothes : all red, orange , yellow, green, blue, purple, white...each color for a year for 14 years  as well as performing disciplines which led to new understandings of energy. Since then, Montano has been focusing on a more universal and less devisive way of seeing  things and has used the 7 glands as a conceptual frame for her art. We all have glands but some might argue that we dont all have chakras.

For this art/medicine festival, Montano will gather 8 performers to accompany her.....they will interpret and publicly research  the ovaries/testes, the pancreas/ adrenals / thymus / thyroid / pineal / pituitary.... with medical information  and creative intrepretations of those glands. 

 A Master of Ceremonies, Lisa Barnard, will sing a song for each gland before introducing the performer.  Montano will move continuously for 7 hours, blindfolded as a comment on her current movement disorder, dystonia. The premise is that art is about life and life is art and that art heals and that it is just possible that many will be healed during the performance.

Learn more at www.lindamontano.com.
Learn more about the IONE Dream Festival, Oct. 1 to Nov. 30, 2010, here www.deeplistening.org/dreamfestival.