MONK, Meredith

A major Mixed-Means performance artist, Monk has, since her breakthrough 16 Millimetre Earrings (1966), created a rich series of performance pieces incorporating choreography, music, language, and film customarily produced mostly, if not entirely, by herself. She has explored alternative theatrical spaces, performing the three parts of Juice (1969) weeks apart in a museum, a university, a theater, and a downtown loft. Much of Monk's work is autobiographical to differing degrees; much, epitomized...