{"id":3169,"date":"2026-01-09T00:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:31:44","slug":"meredith-monk-performance-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"Meredith Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meredith Monk: A Documentary, by Sidsel Mundal (1994)\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbswVGaqFDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Meredith Jane Monk<\/b> (born November 20, 1942) was an American avant-garde composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer.\u00a0 She was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being stubborn about the fact that art is a spiritual practice is a political act,&#8221;\u00a0 Meredith Jane Monk.<\/p>\n<p>I am celebrating women with the strength to follow their conscience, their passions, their dreams despite the risks associated with doing so.\u00a0 Without them the world would not be as rich and beautiful as it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) was an American avant-garde composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer.\u00a0 She was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama. &#8220;Being stubborn about the fact that art is a spiritual practice is a political act,&#8221;\u00a0 Meredith Jane Monk. I am celebrating women with the strength to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meredith Monk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-documentary","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}