To listen to full radio interview between Brainard Carey and Nicolás click HERE

Praxis is the collaborative name for the work of artists Delia and Brainard Carey. The Museum of Non-Visible Art is a project by Praxis, hosted by Yale University Radio with over 1500 interviews in the archive. ©Praxis Interview Magazine. To learn more about The Museum on Non-visible Art click HERE

Image depicting The Metropolitan Portal, 2020, an experience presented by Rhina Valentin and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful withMichael Max Knobbe and Angel Rodríguez / Photo: Argenis Apolinario / Courtesy of Nicolás Dumit Estévez 

The Interior Beauty Salon announces its November guest

A Q&I between Rosamond S. King and Nicolás To read the Q&I click HERE

Writer, performer, and artist Rosamond S. King is the author of poetry collections All the Rage and the Lambda Award-winning Rock | Salt | Stone. Her writing has also been published in more than three dozen journals, blogs, and anthologies, including The Feminist Wire, Hyperallergic, The Caribbean Writer, and The New Daughters of Africa.

She draws on reality to create non-literal, culturally and politically engaged interpretations of African diaspora experiences. King’s performances have been curated into venues around the world, including the New York Metropolitan Museum, the VIVA! and Encuentro Festivals, Gibney, Dixon Place, Bocas LitFest, and the African Performance Art Biennial. 

King makes objects she calls books, and creates the irregular mail art series “Not-a-Blog.” She is also the author of Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination, winner of the Caribbean Studies Association best book award. The goal of all of her work is to make people feel, wonder, and think, not necessarily in that order. A professor at Brooklyn College (CUNY), King is also creative editor of sx salon. 

Rosamond S King’s related links: webiste / Instagram / Vimeo

A FREE Online Gathering Over Two Days  “Youth Mental Wellness - Resilience in Uncertainty” / October 7 and 8, 2021 

For more details about the conference click HERE

To register click HERE

About In My Mind Conference 2021 : Our 2021 conference continues as a FREE virtual gathering with a potentially larger participation - many from previous conferences and first timers - WELCOME! As a participant, you are likely to meet others from around the world, the country and your neighborhood/community from the comfort of your home. 

Recognizing the limitations imposed on us by the continuing pandemic and the fatigue many experience from too much online/screen time, this year’s Conference will span two days - truncated each day. It will be primarily led by our young LGBTQ+ people of color community members, who will share with us their view of the present and their thoughts for the future. Subject areas will raise and discuss issues focused on LGBTQ+ people of color mental health - “In My Mind.”  

The conference hones in on issues impacting mental health, such as foster care, homelessness and shelter system, incarceration, physical health, substance abuse and recovery, transgender issues, sexual health, cultural sensitivity and acceptance (sexual orientation and gender identity), HIV, COVID-19, racism, homophobia and transphobia, education, coping with isolation, social media, external environmental factors, and much more. 

Linda Mary Montano is a seminal figure in contemporary performance art and her work since the mid 1960s has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide ranging — she has been feature at museums including The New Museum in New York, MoMA, MOCA San Francisco, and ICA in London. Linda Mary Montano created 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART: 1984-1998, A 7 Chakra Experience; and ANOTHER 21 YEARS OF LIVING ART. 1998-2019: A FREE ONLINE SCHOOL FOR PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTATION. Montano has placed over 60 of her videos free on YouTube.

Montano's websites: Archive / Video Data Bank / Fales Library at NYU / Blog / Dorsky Museum / Youtube Channel

Publications: Linda Mary Montano: You Too Are a Performance Artist: Art in Everyday Life / Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties / Art in Everyday Life / The Art and Life Institute Handbook (to download click HERE)

Image depicting Linda Mary Montano reading the Roman Catholic Performance Artist Manifesto outside Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York / Photo Nicolás DERE

Documents in the Online Archive Include:

Art and Addiction / Performing Oneself or Someone Else:An Interactive Between Linda Mary Montano and Nicolás Dumit Estévez / An Eco-Sexual Dirge to Be Read Aloud / Sex-Ecology and the Spiritual Pursuit: The Implications of Guilt and Pleasure in the Act of Loving the Earth / WRITING HOPE IN THE BRONX: LINDA MARY MONTANO & NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ / Bronx Hopes: From Riverdale to Hunts Point / A Complicated Affair: Performing Life on the Margin between Art and Politics: Nicolás Dumit Estévez / THE ARCHIVE FLIES THE COOP, says Linda Mary Montano / INTERVIEW BETWEEN LINDA MARY MONTANO AND NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ, JANUARY 2010 / Linda Writes a Letter to Nicolás and Alysha about Mary / Nicolás Writes a Letter to Linda about Mary / THE ART OF COLLABORATING AND MENTORING: NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ AND LINDA MARY MONTANO / With Gratitude to the Saint of Everyday Life: A Conversation between Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo and Linda Mary Montano / Linda Mary Montano and Nicolás Talk About Laughter / LINDA MARY MONTANO TALKS TO NICOLÁS ABOUT AGING / YOU TOO ARE A PERFORMANCE ARTIST: Linda Mary Montano and Nicolás Dumit Estévez / ENDURING/APPRECIATING AS SAINT TERESA OF ÁVILA AND SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS: LINDA MARY MONTANO & NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ

Linda Mary Montano is a seminal figure in contemporary performance art and her work since the mid 1960s has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide ranging — she has been feature at museums including The New Museum in New York, MoMA, MOCA San Francisco, and ICA in London. Montano created 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART: 1984-1998, A 7 Chakra Experience; and ANOTHER 21 YEARS OF LIVING ART 1998-2019: A FREE ONLINE SCHOOL FOR PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTATION. She has placed over 60 of her videos free on YouTube.

Montano’s websites: Archive / Video Data Bank / Fales Library at NYU / Blog / Dorsky Museum / Youtube Channel

Publications: Linda Mary Montano: You Too Are a Performance Artist / Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties / Midred’s Death / My Last Book (upcoming) / Before and After Art/Life Counseling / 14 Years of Living Art / The Sculpture of Linda Mary Montano / Art in Everyday Life / Letters from Linda Mary Montano / The Art Life Institute Handbook (to download click HERE)

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively or through experiences where the quotidian and art overlap. Concurrently, this path has been informed by a strong personal interest in immigration, cultural hybridization and Nicolás’s understanding of identity as a process always in flux. He hence approaches the concepts of home and belonging to the U.S. American context from the perspective of a Lebanese-Dominican, Dominican York who was baptized as a Bronxite: a citizen of the Bronx. While ephemeral by nature, Nicolás’s work gains permanence through audios, photographs, props, drawings, rumors, embodied memories, costumes, websites, videos and publications. During the past 15 years he has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Montano and Nicolás have also collaborated on several performances.

To access the full archive click HERE

LuLu LoLo will be assembling an ongoing archive, consisting of images and writings, from her observations of Manhattan from her 28th floor apartment during the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Anchorite is a space within The Salon which houses an immersing creative—as opposed to an emerging one. This is, a sage in the arts and/or healing fields who is invested in traveling deeper —and not so much outwards—in regards to their practice and the life informing it. The Anchorite works from wherever they are on this Earth, investigating in introspection issues really close to their heart. Note: I came up with the term “immersing creative,” after hearing about Bill Beirne’s reference to a “submerging artist.” To learn more about The Anchorite

LuLu LoLo is a performance artist, playwright/actor and activist for over twenty-five years. Ageism, immigration, historical references, ritualism, symbolism, myth, and always humor along with reverent irreverence are incorporated into LuLu’s performances. LuLu curated Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2019: INVISIBLE, a public art festival featuring 82 artists celebrating the indomitable spirit of artists who are sixty years of age or older. LuLu has performed in six AiOP festivals over the past fifteen years in the guise of different personas to illustrate timely topical issues. Her public actions in Where Are the Women? (2015) highlighted the lack of public monuments to women in New York City and was featured in the New York Times; Blessings from Mother Cabrini, Saint of the Immigrants focused on immigrants of the world; and in 2018, stressing the fragility of the aging body, LuLu performed while wearing a chair strapped to her body offering A Seat for the Elderly: The Invisible Generation. As an activist, LuLu organized the Procession of 146 Shirtwaists and Sashes for the Centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. LuLu has written and performed eight one-person plays that evolved from her passion for historical research and social justice, especially as pertaining to the dramatic struggle of women in New York City’s past exemplified by subjects such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; the lesbian lover of murder victim Kitty Genovese; women who fought in the civil war disguised as men; and the shameful treatment of the women consigned to the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Her plays and poetry have been published in Nerve Lantern Axon of Performance Literature, Meta-land Poets of the Palisades II, and 365 Women a Year a Playwriting Project. Her published essays include: “Art is the Path from Reality to the Soul” See You in the Streets, Ruth Sergel, University of Iowa Press, and "Growing Up Italian-American in a Wonder Bread World", Ovunque Siamo. LuLu received a Puffin Foundation Grant (2018). She was a 2013 Blade of Grass Fellow in social engagement, and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writer in Residence (2008). LuLu is a board member of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and an Advisory Board Member of the City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn.

LuLu LoLo’s website / instagram / NYT Review / Pilgrimage by Proxy

More LuLu LoLo related links: vimeo: vimeo.com/fabulouslululolo / youtube: Youtube / twitter: @FabLuLuLoLo / facebook: LuluLoloProductions / facebook: Where Are the Women?/ facebook: facebook.com/ParisPilgrimage / tumblr: paris-pilgrimage.tumblr.com/

Andrés Senra has received the Multiverso Videoart Grant, BBVA Foundation (2015);  Fase 7 Mobility Art Grant of The Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID) (2014). He has also received an artist research grant of the National Museum of Contemporary Arts of Spain / Reina Sofía (2013-2014). In 2012 he was selected by the Goethe-Institut and Instituto Cervantes of Spain for the art program Participar.de, taking place in Berlin, Madrid, and Toulouse. In 2012 and 2013 he received the Ministry of Culture Grant for the promotion of Spanish art abroad. In 2009 he received the Madrid Procesos artist Grant of AVAM and Karl Hofer Universität Der Künste, Berlin; and in 2005 Senra was artist in residence at the Contemporary Art Center La Casa Encendida in Madrid.

Winner of the Casa Velázquez Prize for Art Creation at Estampa (2009), he has also received, among other prizes, the Region of Madrid Award for art creation (2008).

Senra’s work has been exhibited in important galleries and museums around the world such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS (Spain), VanAbbe Museum (Holland), Art Center Nabi (Korea), and Centro Cultural Recoleta (Argentina), among other places. 

Photo: still from Chapter 1 Puppy  / Courtesy of the artist

Andrés Senra related links: website / IG / Vimeo / Facebook / YouTube

We come together to hold space for one another as we share insights about death and dying, yet also about the wonders of life and living in relationship to impermanence. This circle strives for honesty, openness, and courage as we delve deep, beyond the surface, to discuss what may be the ultimate question or mystery we face: death. In the process, we co-create a space of steadfast compassion and sincere listening.

Our healing circles seek to provide safe, supportive and intentionally welcoming spaces for people of all cultures, faiths, and backgrounds. Each circle is a blend of sharing and silence, compassion and curiosity. Our agreements honor safety and confidentiality. We value our own unique paths to healing and respect the choices of others.

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To learn more about Healing Circles Global click HERE