Borghesi-Mellon Workshop: Art + Scholarship Collaboratory

A final blast-from-the-past post on the occasion of the great Linda Mary Montano's 80th Birthday:

7 years ago (!) we curated the event series "The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home," but we never posted visual or narrative documentation, until now.

In addition to photo galleries documenting the lecture performance and reception at MMoCA, the participatory workshop and chicken walk to the Poultry Research Lab, and the durational one-on-one performance at the Elvehjem Curatorial Lab, this blog post includes a narrative about the events, and concludes with lovely testimonials from some participants (Leslie Bow, River Bullock, Genia Daniels, Lewis Freedman, Marina Kelly, Christine Olson, Jen Plants, and Aliza Rand).

We hope these words and images bring you joy. 💖 🐔 💖

Documentation: The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home In honor of Linda Mary Montano’s 80th birthday, we are (finally) posting documentation from “The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home,” a series of events at the…

In honor of Linda Mary Montano's 80th Birthday, we are (finally) posting documentation from "The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home," a series of events we curated in October 2015! Here are the images from the 7-hour Durational Performance at the Elvehjem Curatorial Lab, where participants visited with Chicken Woman, asked any question about their art or life, and received a chicken drawing 🐔

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The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home
Oct 1st – October 2nd, 2015

Durational Performance:
Friday, October 2nd, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Curatorial Lab, Art History Department, Elvehjem Building, UW-Madison
Come and visit with Chicken Woman. Ask any question about your art or life. Receive a chicken drawing. 🐔

Legendary feminist performance artist and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Linda Mary Montano returns to Madison for an interactive artist talk, workshop, and performance. Montano’s first major performance Chicken Woman (1972) was based on her MFA sculpture show The Chicken Show (1969) in the Art Department at UW-Madison. She went on to become a major pioneer in living sculpture and life/art performance. Returning to her roots, Montano will now present a new site-specific Chicken Woman performance based upon her early work.

This programming was curated by Andrew Salyer and Katie Schaag, presented by the Art + Scholarship Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshop in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from Nancy and David Borghesi and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-sponsored by Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and UW-Madison Art Department, Art History Department, Center for Visual Cultures, DesignLab, English Department, and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies.

All photographs by Aliza Rand.

In honor of Linda Mary Montano's 80th Birthday, we are (finally) posting documentation from "The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home," a series of events we curated in October 2015! Here are the images from the Participatory Workshop & Chicken Walk to the Poultry Research Laboratory, plus a tour with Ron Kean, Poultry Specialist 🐔

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The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home
Oct 1st – October 2nd, 2015

Participatory Workshop & Chicken Walk to the Poultry Research Laboratory
(& tour with Ron Kean, Poultry Specialist 🐔)
Thursday, October 1st, 2015, 12:00pm – 2:00pm

Legendary feminist performance artist and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Linda Mary Montano returns to Madison for an interactive artist talk, workshop, and performance. Montano’s first major performance Chicken Woman (1972) was based on her MFA sculpture show The Chicken Show (1969) in the Art Department at UW-Madison. She went on to become a major pioneer in living sculpture and life/art performance. Returning to her roots, Montano will now present a new site-specific Chicken Woman performance based upon her early work.

This programming was curated by Andrew Salyer and Katie Schaag, presented by the Art + Scholarship Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshop in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from Nancy and David Borghesi and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-sponsored by Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and UW-Madison Art Department, Art History Department, Center for Visual Cultures, DesignLab, English Department, and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies.

All photographs by Aliza Rand.

In honor of Linda Mary Montano's 80th Birthday, we are (finally) posting documentation from "The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home," a series of events we curated in October 2015! Here are the images from the Schmoozing Reception 🥂 following Linda's artist talk / lecture performance at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, with special guests Ron Kean, Poultry Specialist; the Chicken Dance Club: River Bullock, Genia Daniels, Helen Hawley, & Alexandra Lakind; and a Chicken Audience! 🐔🐔🐔

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The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home
Oct 1st – October 2nd, 2015

MMoCA Reception w/ Schmoozing! 🥂
following the
Artist Talk / Lecture Performance: October 1st, 2015, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) Lecture Hall
with special guests:
Ron Kean, Poultry Specialist
Chicken Dance Club: River Bullock, Genia Daniels, Helen Hawley, & Alexandra Lakind
Chicken Audience! 🐔🐔🐔

Legendary feminist performance artist and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Linda Mary Montano returns to Madison for an interactive artist talk, workshop, and performance. Montano’s first major performance Chicken Woman (1972) was based on her MFA sculpture show The Chicken Show (1969) in the Art Department at UW-Madison. She went on to become a major pioneer in living sculpture and life/art performance. Returning to her roots, Montano will now present a new site-specific Chicken Woman performance based upon her early work.

This programming was curated by Andrew Salyer and Katie Schaag, presented by the Art + Scholarship Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshop in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from Nancy and David Borghesi and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-sponsored by Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and UW-Madison Art Department, Art History Department, Center for Visual Cultures, DesignLab, English Department, and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies.

All photographs by Aliza Rand.

In honor of Linda Mary Montano's 80th Birthday, we are (finally) posting documentation from "The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home," a series of events we curated in October 2015! Here are the images from Linda's artist talk / lecture performance at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, with special guests Ron Kean, Poultry Specialist; the Chicken Dance Club: River Bullock, Genia Daniels, Helen Hawley, & Alexandra Lakind; and a Chicken Audience! 🐔🐔🐔

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The Return of Chicken Woman: Linda Mary Montano Flies Home
Oct 1st – October 2nd, 2015

Artist Talk / Lecture Performance: October 1st, 2015, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) Lecture Hall
with special guests:
- Ron Kean, Poultry Specialist
- Chicken Dance Club: River Bullock, Genia Daniels, Helen Hawley, & Alexandra Lakind
- Chicken Audience! 🐔🐔🐔

Legendary feminist performance artist and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Linda Mary Montano returns to Madison for an interactive artist talk, workshop, and performance. Montano’s first major performance Chicken Woman (1972) was based on her MFA sculpture show The Chicken Show (1969) in the Art Department at UW-Madison. She went on to become a major pioneer in living sculpture and life/art performance. Returning to her roots, Montano will now present a new site-specific Chicken Woman performance based upon her early work.

This programming was curated by Andrew Salyer and Katie Schaag, presented by the Art + Scholarship Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshop in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from Nancy and David Borghesi and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-sponsored by Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and UW-Madison Art Department, Art History Department, Center for Visual Cultures, DesignLab, English Department, and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies.

All photographs by Aliza Rand.

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