Monet Clark

A performance, video and photographic artist working on both sides of the camera in wryly humorous, semi-autobiographical, feminist pieces.

The Channel for Democracy: Womenhood, Power and Freedom in Video Art, featuring an all female line up for CONNECTED the inaugural video program for PhotofairsSF 2018

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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 Clements, Kate Gilmore, Allison Leigh Holt, Kadet Kuhne, Pixy Liao and Tiffany Trenda. A panel discussion.

I will also be a part of the panel discussion about the show on Friday February 25th.

  • performance/video

Photofairs San Francisco’s VIP tour, includes NOW, A Video Art Ritual, my collaboration with John Sanborn at SF Camerawork

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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 talk with you about the work!

(poster images and post installation image by Roger Jones)

Images from mystic artist Penny Slinger’s, Rise of the Phoenix ritual birthday event, including my performance PHOENIX. The GODDESS TEMPLE, Boulder Creek, CA

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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 essence remedy. (First 6 images). This supported individual’s internal processes, complimenting the rituals being performed in the main hall. This included Slinger’s Phoenix ritual (last 5 images) where the entire gathering burned intentions for death and rebirth in the temple hearth…

Review for Convulsive Stripper, 1992

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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 going into mini-seizures. That one in itself would be rated **** 1/2″   https://letterboxd.com/film/art-com-14-rebel-girls/

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