BURIED BY BROCOLLI.
Curated by Jill McDermid
Linda Montano´s ART / LIFE INSTITUTE, Kingston NY, USA. March 2016.
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Buried By Broccoli was part of a series of performances that I developed mainly in NYC and NY upstate reutilizing waste and particularly food waste in perfect edible conditions that I had found in the streets of NYC.
For a while garbage in Brooklyn was my ART supply…. I always felt a need to find ways for people to realize how much waste exists around us, how many resources we don't see which are actually just out there.... For this performance I happen to found 4 dumpsters full of broccoli, I was able to collect just enough quantity of them that would fit inside the car trunk, then I took them to the Art Life Institute in Kingston NY where I performed this piece which mainly involved the interaction of the audience by asking them to burry me under the pile of broccoli in which I remained under for 15 minutes and experienced how all the broccoli then became like one single organism, I experienced the feeling how my breathing would make all of the pile expand or retract. |
food waste in Brooklyn
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Exhibited at Casa Del Lago Museum, UNAM in Mexico City during collecvtive show Practicas de Campo curated by Tania Ragasol and Felipe Zuñiga in 2016.
Performance documentation at the Art Life Institute in Kingston NY, 2016.
