Linda Mary Montano (b. 1942)
ALZHEIMER’S: THREE VIEWS: 2026, 16 minutes.
Video AI editing and animation : TOBE CAREY
“At 84, Alzheimers is considered at 3 am along with heart attack and cancer. My art is one of my medicines. And it heals, even the unhealable.”
THE ROPE-AI EDITION: 2026, 21 minutes.
Video AI editing and animation: TOBE CAREY
“Alex and Alison Grey interviewed Tehching Hsieh and I about the year we collaborated by being tied together 24-7 by an 8 foot rope. Tobe Carey altered our voices and some of our original images via AI. Endurance as Healing.”
PORTRAIT OF SAPPHO: 2026, 10 minutes.
Video editing and animation: TOBE CAREY.
Sound: JIM BARBARO
Voices: JOSEPHA GUTELIUS, RENEE AVALOS, CELESTE GRAVES, CAI SILVER, CHRISTINA VARGA.
Originally the text was about sensuality and sex. That was 1997. The 2026 version is about BIRTH and COMPASSION.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG: 2023, 33 minutes.
From a 1997 audio titled LESBIAN AMERICAN COMPOSERS.
Video version editing and animation: TOBE CAREY
“I list/sing the disasters of NOW and MOTHER MARY offers hope.”
MA AND THE SEVEN CHAKRAS: 2023, 60 minutes.
Video editing, animation, sound: TOBE CAREY
Sound recording and engineering. JIM BARBARO.
“Dressed as CHICKEN WOMAN, I dance and sing healings via a journey through the SEVEN CHAKRAS.”
LINDA MARY MONTANO AS MOTHER TERESA: 2019, 6 minutes.
Video footage: DIANE TERAMANA
Video editing, animation, sound: TOBE CAREY
“I have a physical neurological disorder which causes my back to bend over. One day I said” I look just like Mother Teresa.”
LINDA PERFORMS WITH DYSTONIA: 2019, 10 minutes.
Video editing, animation, sound: TOBE CAREY
“Art is a healing which addresses everything. I ask friends if they feel uncomfortable watching me perform with my body signaling pain. Their responses are included in this video. I conclude with ecstatic dancing.”
INTERACTIVE DANCE FOR ANA MENDIETA: 2018, 13 minutes.
Video editing: TOBE CAREY
“In my book PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TALKING IN THE 80’s which included interviews with performance artists Ana talked about death. This video honors her ART, LIFE, and her GIFTS TO PERFORMANCE ART. It ends with Cuban music, honoring her Culture.”
SEVEN SONGS FOR SEVEN GLANDS: 2016, 13 minutes.
Video editing, animation and sound: TOBE CAREY
Sound engineer: JIM BARBARO
“Singing is the language that I prefer. These seven songs say with music, what is in my heart. They are: PRAY FOR YOUR CNA, MOTHER EARTH YOU ARE PRECIOUS, ANXIETY YOU ARE MY FRIEND, THE FARMER IN THE DELL, PASSING THROUGH, I’M GONNA DIE, RING AROUND THE ROSIE.”
MY MOTHER ARTIST TEACHER: 2016, 13 minutes.
Video editing, animation and sound: TOBE CAREY
Sound engineer: JIM BARBARO
“My mother was a teacher of how to turn life, and pain and suffering into art. This video teaches about life and creativity and death.”
LINDA MARY MONTANO AS PAUL McMAHON, 2014, 5 minutes.
Video: TOBE CAREY
Camera: DIANE TERAMANA
“Paul is a Woodstock legend and a beautiful person. In my quest to incorporate the best male qualities into my persona, I happily imitate Paul whenever I have the opportunity. Also Mother Teresa and Bob Dylan.”
NURSE NURSE, 2013, 19 minutes.
Camera: JOSEPHA GUTELIUS
Nurse: LAURA KOPCZAK
Video editing: TOBE CAREY
Sound: JIM BARBARO
Voice: Meg Carey
“I took care of my father in the family home with many aides for three years. The irony and tragedies acted out in this video became a step toward healing.”
ROBOT POVERA, 2011, 9 minutes.
Video editing and animation: TOBE CAREY
“I grew up with a shyness about verbally expressing myself and this video points to a WAY via humor and CRAZY TALK video manipulation to help me speak about my life, my process, my art. In a way we were on the cusp of AI and now the technology is even more articulated than this 2011 version.”
MY POPE DREAM, 2010, 15 minutes.
Video editing, sound and animation: TOBE CAREY
“Having been raised strict Roman Catholic and going to a Convent for three years, I was left with questions about the Church and the Patriarchy. This video outlines my thinking on the subject.”
LINDA MARY MONTANO CELEBRATES MOTHER TERESA’s 100th BIRTHDAY. AT EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, 2010, 15 minutes.
Video: MARK SHAW
“For three days I appeared as Mother Teresa for three days, three hours, as a protest because the Empire State Building refused to honor her with blue and white lights on her birthday. Four artists guarded me: Andrea Dominguez, Miss Toni Silver, Zhenesse Heinemann and Leah Aron.”
BENARES, 1998, 27 minutes.
Video editing and sound: ANDY COCKRUM and CHRIS ERLON
“I needed to understand death so I went to Benares India where the dead are burned publicaly.”
CHAKRAPHONICS WITH JACKIE GLEASON, 1998, 46 minutes.
Video and sound: MAIDA BARBOUR
“Barbour documented my 14 year CHAKRA ENDURANCE.”
THE SEVEN CHAKRAS: CHAKRAPHONICS, 1998, 45 minutes.
Video and sound: ANDY COCKRUN and CHRIST ERLON
Photos and Collage: ANNIE SPRINKLE and KATHERINE GATES
“After I was tied with a rope for a year with Tehching Hsieh, I performed 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART, a performative endurance so that I could experience deeply and authentically the 7 Chakras.”
WATER ANGELS TALKING, 1997, 46 minutes.
Video editing and animation: TOBEY CAREY
Sound editing: JANIS MATTOX and LOREN RUSH: GOOD SOUND FOUNDATION
“My Spiritual Teacher SHRI BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI introduced me to the mystical language and world of Hindu Theology. This video is dedicated to him in gratitude for his teachings.”
SEVEN STAGES OF INTOXICATION, 1996, 34 minutes.
Video and sound: VANAE RODRIQUEZ and CHRIST ERLON
“Post menopausal hormone changes catapulted me out of control and I felt symbolically "intoxicated". This tape also references the "art" of teaching via faux-signing and the verbal drone of un-necessary theorizing.”
ON DEATH AND DYING, 1982, 22 minutes.
Video: TOBE CAREY
“ELIZABETH MONRO CROSS, and I talk with MESCAL HORNBECK about death and dying while playing cards and pointing to the brief GAME OF LIFE.”
LINDA MARY MONTANO AS SISTER JACQUES BERNADETTE, 1990, 14 minutes.
Video: NANCY CAIN, Woodstock Night Light TV
Editing: TOBE CAREY
“Having become a nun for 3 years. I was able to re-see that time via this PARODY of obsession and irony.”
LEARNING TO TALK, 1978, 45 minutes.
Video and sound: ANDY COCKRUM and CHRIS ERLON
“In 1975, Montano experienced a situation that resulted in an emotional dissociation and ability to heal via becoming seven different personas. It resulted in video as medicine.”