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My performance video movie Colonial Climate, The Great Unraveling will be broadcast and worldwide live streamed on September 11th, 2024 at 9:35 pm (CET) on www.okto.tv Germany, presented by DELETE TV, Austria https://www.delete-tv.com/news

For the exhibition In-Flux: Recalibrating the Unknown, at the Museum of Northern California Art, Chico

I am happy to announce I will be showing one of my new performance based photographic works from the Femme Fauna series in this epic upcoming exhibition, featuring the best of the San Francisco Art Institute alumni community.

Dale Hoyt (MFA’80) passed away peacefully on April 12, 2022, just two weeks after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. He chose to keep his condition private with just a few close friends knowing, and he was surrounded by their love during his final days. His passing came as a…

https://youtu.be/DJJUCEB3QTM Performance art icon Linda Mary Montano conducted an Art/Life interview of eco-feminist artist Monet Clark on Zoom in October of 2021, during Monet’s prolonged recovery from a relapse of the neuro-inflammatory disease ME/CFS and Environmental Illness. Topics include: Illness as Kundalini awakening, misogyny in the medical establishment, female Hollywood…

Click this link to RSVP and for the full schedule! https://franklinfurnaceloft.org/linda-mary-montano-bday I will be screening in the 7-8pm EST time slot excerpts from FLYING BLIND A Life-ist Performance Interview with Linda Montano, Monet Clark and the wind, from October 2021

https://youtu.be/Td57OAjf3ZU

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https://youtu.be/7MX3mZwlKws Live performance by ‘life is art’ legend LINDA MONTANO and a presentation of the panelist’s work, moderated by curator Monet Clark. Discussion revolves around the role of the mystic & the subconscious, in these artist’s practices & physical lives; animism; Indigenous culture and contemporary art; art ancestor Joseph Beuys;…

https://youtu.be/89JAjAonTfo Lit 🔥 inspired ✨ artist talk discussing the interplay between climate justice, misogyny, Indigenous culture, human and animal rights, mysticism and our democracy; the liminality of artistic practice; and art as social activation; the legacy of Joseph Beuys; the Tibetan mystic studies of Marcel Duchamp; the impact of Marjorie…

https://youtu.be/MRV0LLuXI94 Art provides us with a liminal space wherein momentary suspensions from our patterned thoughts and identities can be experienced, allowing for us to align with new states of awareness. Art can reveal cultural biases and their impacts, function as a catalyst for change, and it builds culture. As we…

YOU ARE INVITED THIS SUNDAY TO ATTEND AN EXCITING FREE WEBINAR CONVERSATION, WITH 4 OF VIRTUAL EXHIBITION INVOCATION DEMOCRACY’S EXHIBITING ARTISTS. Presented by Pro Arts Commons, moderated by its curator Monet Clark, this talk will revolve around the motivations behind the artist’s works and the show’s themes which include: the…

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SUPERMOON 5 archive link, WATCH NOW: https://youtu.be/qYi6lAb-szMLive stream video, performance art & music show, SUPERMOON is back in all of its surreal glory, & edition 5 is a fundraiser for the Black community. I will be participating along with an illustrious lineup including donated works, which you can get by…

“…a public-access-on-mesculin aesthetic that is somehow perfect for these absurd and fractured times.” –Shana Nys Dambrot, LA WeeklyMay 23rd, 2020 live stream 9-11p.m.LINKS:twitch.tv/lastprojectsyoutu.be/DlHI8GSZxTs

HABITAT CALIFORNIA: Flora & FaunaFebruary 8 – April 18, 2020 opening Feb. 8th 6-10pmInvitational and Juried ExhibitionJuror: Tulsa Kinney, Editor of Artillery For more information on all of the artist’s exhibition see: For a list of artists see: https://habitatcalifornia.net/artists/ Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts…

The White Winter Fox’soration…Presenting Tiger womanRaven opening the portal to the void from whence…all phyical reality manifests

Telematic Gallery 323 10th St. at Folsom in San Francisco. Farm and Friends in 3D! is open during the Folsom Street Fair and runs through our closing party on Oct 12, 2019 2-4pm. My performance video movie Bunny Girl is screening on loop as part of this exhibition, along with…

4Waves: 40 Performances for the Hole curated by Justin Hoover for SOMArts Cultural Center 40th Anniversary, September 11th, 2019, San Francisco, CA Each performer was given 4 minutes: 1 to set up, 2 to perform and 1 to break down… or all 4 to perform….This is part of my…

…& works by Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, Cliff Hengst, Dale Hoyt & The Patchcords (with Fred Rinne). Thursday September 19th at 7:30. One can also view both films in the exhibition Hoyt’s Farm and my Bunny Girl before and after the screening. 

Both of my upcoming shows are included in 48hills, Fall Arts Preview: 10 can’t miss art shows list…Dale Hoyt: Farm and Friends — in 3D! at Telematic Gallery. “From pastoral poetry to The Simple Life, farming has often been held up as a paradisiac alternative to urban malaise. Shot on an…

… including Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, Cliff Hengst, Fred Rinne, Gabrielle Thormann, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough, and Steve Thurston. Check the website for special screening events in conjunction with the show.

“Karen Fiorito of Buddha Cat Press is working with Monet Clark to produce a series of silkscreens about the role of women in the recent Iranian protests.”

DONATE You can make a fully tax deductible donation toward the production and exhibition of the VöLVA SAGA series through my fiscal sponsor, CIRCUIT NETWORK based in San Francisco. All donations will receive and official document of receipt from Circuit Network for your tax purposes. To donate by check please…

3 works in progress from the VöLVA SAGA series ORACULAR GAIA GANGSTER GIRL and the ECO-WARRIORS of WONDERLAND and WITCH Eco-feminist performance based video and photographic worksWritten and performed, shot and directed by Monet Clark From Wikipedia: “The Völva were female shamans and seers in Norse religion… who traveled the land… and were summoned…

At mystic painter Hilma af Klint’s magnificent exhibition at the Guggenheim NYC, with their largest attendance: 600,000 visitors! This painting reminded me of Taoist Chinese Yin/Yang philosophy, & the poster for my collaboration NOW, A Video Art Ritual & the Swan helmet my character wore. The thing about esoteric work…

“In Monet Clark’s color photographs, the artist casts herself in the performative role of hybridized ingenue, a sexualized woman operating within a catastrophic landscape. In each  image, she appears objectified, or “acted upon” by the viewer’s probing gaze, yet the space she occupies suggests environmental devastation, or at the very…

I Am Nature at Loft at Liz’s 453 So. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles curated by Gary Brewer. We had a great turn out for opening night… Exhibition runs through 4/29/19 hours 10am-6pm Mon – Sat Sculptor Peter Shelton taking in Monet’s Performance in Nature works Exhibiting artists Xu DaRocha…

opening tonight March 9th 7-10pm at Loft at Liz’s 453 S. La Brea Ave. “A brilliant group of artists reflecting upon our place in the natural universe” says curator Gary Brewer. I’ll be showing selections from my Performance in Nature series.   

The production of NOW involved two days shooting in my original homeland, the Santa Monica mountains in L.A., on a large sandstone rock overlooking the vast Pacific. Then we had one day of shooting at a recently burned forested area of Nevada City, CA my second homeland. Next each of…

You can own this piece of art, come on down! Preview: Wednesday, September 12th, 6-8pm Auction: Saturday September 22nd, 2018, 5:30pm For tickets click: TICKETS To see the catalog click: CATALOG

“The Wild Side” a several page spread of a dominatrix in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco is in vol.7, #3, Jan-Feb 1991 –sold out– “Carson and Adrian” is the pictorial of a young lesbian couple making love is in vol. 7, #4, Mar-Apr 1991 –link: https://www.bolerium.com/pages/books/189039/susie-bright-monet-clark-fanny-fatale/on-our-backs-entertainment-for-the-adventurous-lesbian-vol-7-4-mar-apr-1991-donna-jackson-former?fbclid=IwAR0r3TB-Kq8JfYjj5loseVhaVh53okKzxope6g7-v4Up5Egq9rBrXf5fsxs

Below is a clip from the talk. To see more click here. https://youtu.be/Dh-B4hjDNkU

Clip from the panel discussion I participated in at The Fort Mason Pavilion, in which I gave an overview of the theories behind my work… https://youtu.be/eJwcwHRxqtE

My performance video piece MUSE is screening in this rare all female video exhibition.  Pictured are video artists (L to R) Lydia Greer, Zen Cohen, Liz Miller, Merav Tzur, and curator Justin Hoover & Monet Clark. The other participating artists include Zeina Barakeh, Fernanda D’Agostino, Klea McKenna, Shaiva Ahmadi, Sophie…

For all VIP ticket holders for PhotofairsSF 2018, this Saturday evening February 26th, 2018 from 7-9pm,  SF Camerawork will be hosting a private viewing session of the 10 screen performance video installation NOW, A Video Art Ritual. Come mingle with us artists John Sanborn and Monet Clark we’d love to…

…including the relationship between the feminine (which lies in each of us male, female, they) & each of these: the non-visible world; indigenous perspectives in the Americans pre-colonialism; prophecy; ceremony; modern day intention; pre-burning times female led healing traditions in Europe; the vibratory perspective of the world according to Eastern…

My collaboration with John Sanborn opens February 8th, 2018 from 6-8p.m. at SF Camerawork 1011 Market St. 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA and runs through April 7th, 2018! We are grateful for this vote of confidence and support from our donors and the opportunity this affords our audiences, to come…

Just got back from Austin, TX for 2017’s Fantastic Arcade, the nexus between video games and art, where 30 juried presenters from all over the world were chosen to exhibit their works. This included Jared Johnson and his poetic, visually stunning game Love Is Moving for which I am the muse. I…

I just checked into Instagram & found this first image from the festival’s curator, & the second image posted by an audience member who called BUNNY GIRL ‘thought provoking’. 😉                                        …

As an offering to the temple & the night, I prepared a Phoenix themed flower essence vibrational remedy, from the pharmacopeia at Olala Farms in Nevada City. I ritually adorned the lotus seat & myself to perform death/rebirth, rising from the ashes themed psychic readings and to administer the flower…

I don’t know where they got ahold of a copy of this old compilation distributed by artcom, but from the site letterboxd here is a user’s review: “…Monet Clark’s profound piece “Convulsive Stripper”, is astonishing in its knowledge of perversion with loneliness and features a strip tease with the stripper…

It will be screening in the Experimental Short Film Block October 8th 3:30-430 Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd Ca 90291 For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/other-venice-film-festival-general-admission-tickets-27097558527   

I learned from the years of being so ill that I couldn’t lift my arms & legs, a dichotomy: to face the hard truth in the moment while still believing in positive possibilities to come & not getting jaded by the horrors of life. Our thoughts & beliefs assist in…

To read more on the context and politics behind some of my work…check out my essay piece with the above title which can be found with these pieces on my website: Performance with Toxic Tee Pee (2007),Pretend We’re Dead (2007) and OPUS EXTERNUS DOMICILIUM (2017) “Clark’s Pirate Island Performance Series deliver us squarely into the dystopian reality…

Click to see and read my piece: THE CASUALTIES OF CAPIALISM’S COMMERCE OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES/OPUS EXTERNUS DOMICILIUM.  To see the whole magazine click the image!

My response in the comments below to one of the points of this review which was based on an incorrect assumption about my race: “As the artist who made BUNNY GIRL & as a women who is mixed race & comes from a long line of not white & mixed…

performance/video They will screen performance/video piece MUSE in the main gallery for the duration of the festival June 1st-4th 2017  

BUNNY GIRL is an official selection for the festival. For more information click: http://art-film-festival.com/aviff-2017/  

Channel 36 for Time Warner subscribers Channel 99 for AT&T subscribers (curated by Bill Turk)

“Dangerous Dakini: Monet Clark’s Bunny Girl and other precarious performance videos” Afterimage vol. 44 #4 (February 2017) an important voice in media arts for over 40 years, by Jillian St. Jacques “…Clark’s healing rituals stand in a class of their own…” “[Cross Voyeusim is] a feminist counterattack.” “Performance art often cultivates risk…

“…Clark’s healing rituals stand in a class of their own…” “a feminist counterattack.” “Performance art often cultivates risk to draw its audience into the collective empathy/concern for the precarious position of its makerand in this regard Bunny Girl is no exception.”“In the performance/video DAKINI (2011)…her ritualistic gestures place her in a…

WOMEN’S PROTEST ACROSS AMERICA JANUARY 21, 2017 WERE THE LARGEST PROTEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY,with SISTER PROTESTS GLOBALLY ON EVERY CONTINENT. My photographs from the California State Capitol: And my friend Becky Boise’s images from LA:

“…our hope for the future lies within the rising of the feminine.”  

(curated by Bill Turk)

“…the tragicomedy invokes gentrification as a symbol for a greater fatalistic existential crises that faces the world and every personal soul.” –Krowswork Gallery Monet Clark with her on screen dad Winston TongMary Elizabeth Yarborough and Winston Tong Helios Creed, Halo the dog Monet Clark pictured with Farm’s writer & director…

Bunny Girl the world traveler… https://youtu.be/96MuxRlmR2c       

It will be screened opening might, November 17th, 2016, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

The festival has a Focus on the Environment, Sustainability, and the Region’s Historical Customs, Dress and Relationship to the Land

Running time 28 min 50 sec: Driven by the crises state of our eco-systems and social unrest, the title character Bunny Girl combines an eroticized Playboy “bunny” with the animal of the same name and traverses landscapes that point to our dystopian present. With wry humor Bunny Girl ties the…

“For her residency, Monet has immersed herself in the completion of her latest video work, Bunny Girl. This piece follows in the spirit of her previous performance vignettes that take a wry and wide view of women’s self image whilst they navigate social stereotypes. Bunny Girl, however, is an experimental…

“A comedic masterpiece as well as a revival of the video art landscape genre of Mary Lucier, Doug Hall and Nan Hoover, Bunny Girl is a rock solid performative piece, with Clark in the titular role, that sets out to interlace dialogs of feminist issues and environmental activism.” –Dale Hoyt

From Krowswork: “This exhibition/residency represents a clearing of space and an announcement of a new destiny, woven by three artists on their own terms. Each is dealing more or less directly with healing in her work: a repairing of trauma through ritualized art space and practice, a radical reimagining and…

1/1/16. FARM is screening again this weekend 1/8th,9th, 10th at Krowswork Gallery in Oakland. Screenings start every 45 minutes, starting at the opening of each day: FRI 4-8, SAT 1-4, and closing SUN 2-4. Also this Friday, as part of the Krowsworkerwork exhibition, there is a SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY PALOMA MODUPE…

Piece on Buddha Cat Press, including one image of ‘Pretty Revolutionary’ collaboration by Monet Clark and Karen Fiorito    

Article highlights group show curated by artist Richard Newton which Monet Clark exhibited in. “Important exhibitions in 18th Street’s main gallery have included Richard Newton’s “Have You Seen My Privacy?” in 2011, which anticipated the selfie-surveillance economy of social media and smart phones through performances and interventions in the exhibition…

Acting under the name Anne Dromeda, I collaborated with the legendary Avant-Punk band CHROME on their 2014 comeback album: Feel It Like A Scientist to prolific rave reviews (see more press here), contributing background vocals, lyrics & compositions for the tracks Lady Feline, Something in the Cloud & Prophecy & the lead vocal,…

Artfairs 2013 SF

“One of Oakland’s more experimental galleries, Krowswork, made strong use of their space combining projected video and physical media at different angles to create a single immersive experience.  Their presentation included…striking performance videos by Monet Clark.”  

“I found the curatorial presentation in Oakland based video and photography gallery, Krowswork particularly interesting. Jasmine Moorhead, the gallery director, explained how they went about translating what they do, mainly video and photography, into their small space. The focus was hybridity, while also examining video installation in as many as…

“Oakland..is making sparks fly with their video and photography program. Krowswork is one of the most experimental spaces in Oakland pushing the digital and photographic art forms…Krowswork really did a great job at their booth this year.”

https://youtu.be/pkQ0AulxcQg?t=9m20s

“Monet Clark presents large-scale videos from her Look Book series. Set in austere, yet jewel-like environments, Clark embodies and employs the slick visual language of the fashion world to perform acts from the sacred to the mundane, creating moving video portraits iconographic of 21st-century California culture. The resultant pieces are…

Images from 1990-2012 for more see: http://www.helioschrome.com/index.html  

Click: album collaboration to see more press for for Feel It Like A Scientist. CHROME INTERVIEW for The New NOISE, By Yanick Blay Translated from French to English below by Sandra Vivas “Chrome, self-proclaimed acid punk, rock group, was formed in the mid 70’s in California. After the death of its…

“Monet Clark shows up in her smart video NUDE wearing ‘nude’ underware. This double cross cover up is exactly the kind of expansive obscure that suits this crowd.” SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY (CUNT)1/11/13-2/22/13Curated by Jennifer Locke @ Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, in the Autzen Gallery in Neuberger Hall &…

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“The Art Murmur is pointing the way with some seriously self-revealing video art, notably at the Krowswork Gallery…This month Monet Clark bares both her soul and her body, and some complex…issues… in half a dozen stunning highdef and large-displayed performance pieces.”  

“She confronts the perception of differing women characters that are perceived in our contemporary world…accompanied with irony & mockery that provide a since of truth…” –Art in Limbo Blog 2011

“The subtitle of Clark’s show California Girl (A Retrospective Debut) can be read as a symptom of the human condition. Our identities are made up of a retrospective lineage of past experiences, language and memories which our ever-changing physical body constantly debuts in the present moment.”–Hyperallergic 2011

“Tall & thin Clark easily embodies the current beauty ideal, which is part of what makes it so effective when she ruptures the continuity of the illusion which she has created…she indicts the viewer for objectifying her, but desire is a double edged sword as she is complicit in this objectification.”–Hyperallergic