Meredith Monk performance art (1966)

Here's a fine piece of downtown NYC avant-garde history. Performance artist Meredith Monk's "16 Millimeter Earrings" for voice, guitar, and tapes, first performed in 1966 and recreated for the 1979 video above. Monk's musical/theatrical/multimedia/film art has influenced everyone from Bruce Nauman to David Byrne to Bjork. "I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema," Monk once said. (via Toys and Techniques)