Monet Clark

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

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…

The Fine Line Between Sexy and Sickness, —Hyperallergic, Peter Dobey

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“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 

PUNK ROCK ART feat the Poisoning/Phoenix Performance Document series, benefit for George Tabb, at Safari Sam’s Hollywood, CA

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artsland poisoning phoenix

The thing about esoteric work is that each culture’s mystic practices speak to the same truths that now neuroscience & sub-atomic physics are addressing, as science is finally understanding many things which indigenous peoples & many culture’s across millennia have known all along. Its all coming to the forefront now as humanity faces its own extinction if the dominant mindset doesn’t open to understand a few basic things…

At mystic painter Hilma af Klint’s magnificent exhibition at the Guggenheim NYC, with their largest attendance: 600,000 visitors! This painting…