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	Istvan Kantor biography presented by Engine Gallery
		Istvan Kantor lived in many cities, Budapest, Paris, Montreal, Portland, San
		Kantor was arrested and jailed for his blood-x
		Istvan Kantor was also a recepient of the Governor General's Award for
	www.enginegallery.ca /dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=58 (122 words)

	Canadian Art
		If Istvan Kantor is known for his activities in the name of Monty Cantsin, he is equally known as the founder of the paradoxical anti-movement called Neoism.
		And Kantor's most carefully planned and notorious blood X action took place in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art in 1988, a performance Kantor dedicated to those who were beaten and arrested during the Tompkins Square riots that same year.
		Istvan Kantor's art at its best is synthetic and cumulative, meaning that it brings together and layers a wide variety of idioms: performance, text, music, kinetic sculpture, historical film footage, computer animation and more.
	www.canadianart.ca /articles/Articles_Details.cfm?Ref_num=299 (1863 words)

	Istvan Kantor Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Istvan Kantor (aka "Monty Cantsin", and "Amen!") (born 27 August 1949 in Budapest) is a Hungarian born Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism.
		He was one of a couple of persons to whom Zack suggested to adopt the multiple identity Monty Cantsin, but only Kantor took up this proposal seriously and adopted the Cantsin identity to the point where it became chiefly associated with him.
		These performances, the style of which Kantor has maintained and developed until today, can be seen as an ostensibly theatrical and subtly humorous travesty of 1970s body art shock performances like those of Chris Burden and the Vienna Actionists.
	www.artisticnudity.com /encyclopedia/Istvan_Kantor (693 words)

	Istvan Kantor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He was one of a couple of persons to whom Zack suggested to adopt the multiple identity (Click link for more info and facts about Monty Cantsin) Monty Cantsin, but only Kantor took up this proposal seriously and adopted the Cantsin identity to the point where it became chiefly associated with him.
		Kantor expanded the theatrical, opera-like quality of his performances through the medium of video which gained him international recognition and awards as a video performance artist from the 1980s until today.
		At the same time, he continued to work within the (Click link for more info and facts about Neoist) Neoist network, co-organizing and participating in a series of Neoist festivals, which began as Apartment Festivals ("APTs") between 1980 and 1988 and were continued in 1997 and 2004.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/istvan_kantor.htm (472 words)

	AMEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Kantor's first machines were fictional automats populating the pseudo-technosphere of Neoist manifestos.
		Kantor produced his first hydraulic performance-machine "Robot Platform" in 1992, that was followed by a series of kinetic noise-sculptures exploring office furniture and especially the file cabinet.
		Istvan Kantor's main subjects are the decay of technology and the struggle of the individual in technological society.
	www.interlog.com /~amen/3_0a.htm (251 words)

	Y-File
		In Istvan Kantor: Machinery Execution, which is on exhibit to April 3, the artist presents interactive machines and videos that have been overlooked by media during recent controversy over the artist’s work.
		As Kantor said in 2004: "In the land of accumulation all activity remains activated, causing continuous interventions, overlapping structures, sudden changes, global explosions, turmoil, tumult, turbulence, everything happens at once and simultaneously.
		In its citation, the jury said: "Istvan Kantor’s work in video and performance art is on the cutting and critical edge of contemporary art.
	www.yorku.ca /yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=3926 (445 words)

	Musing » Istvan Kantor is at it again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Istvan Kantor was charged with disturbing the peace and property damage after trying to splatter blood on a statue by well-known Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy which is on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum.
		Yes, we’re talking about the same Istvan Kantor who won the Governor General’s Award (which comes with the fifteen thousand dollar grant!) for a body of work including such bold artistic statements as inserting a phial of blood up his arse whilst stark-bollock-naked and throwing himself into a ditch.
		Perhaps the two most compelling proofs that Kantor’s career is far beyond the ability of the peons to understand are that he can’t understand it himself and that his own words argue that his work is useless.
	www.hayz.ws /blog/index.php?p=1156 (676 words)

	monty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		You are invited to kick out the new year with Neoist singer/subvertainer Istvan Kantor and convulse to the beat of his hyper-decadent loopmachine folk anthems, high-tech videos and seizure like machine-sex.
		Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin, the Neoist open-pop-star, is best known in the art world for his passionate engagement and unquenchable thirst to subvert the rules of the institutionalized system of art.
		Kantor is an artist-in-residence at the Podewil - Center for Contemporary Arts in Berlin-Mitte since aug/04, creating new performances, videos, sound and robotic art, collaborating with local and international artists, working on site specific in-situ events throughout the Eastern part of the city.
	members.eisa.com /~ec089540/monty.htm (2111 words)

	CBC Arts: Governor General's Award-winner arrested in Berlin art gallery incident
		Istvan Kantor was charged with disturbing the peace and property damage after trying to splatter blood on a statue by well-known Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy.
		Born in Hungary in 1949, Kantor is considered the father of "Neoism" an international anarchist art movement that has been compared to Dadaism.
		During the 1980s Kantor began his "Blood Campaign" series, the first instalment in which he was suspended naked in the lotus position, his mouth filled with his own blood.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2004/12/01/Arts/kantorblood041201.html (479 words)

	Montreal Mirror: Cover story
		Say what you will about Istvan Kantor, aka Monty Cantsin, but the guy is committed and comes up with more creative ideas in one week than most other people do in their lifetimes.
		Kantor over the phone from Toronto earlier this week to try and get a handle on what's going down in the old nutbar's head.
		Istvan Kantor: Well, of course there is a lot of humour in what I do but not so much ha-ha-ha, fall-down-laughing comedy.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2001/110801/cover.html (1538 words)

	Thisway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Drawing by Istvan Kantor were displayed as well as performance with several of his Machine Sex Action Group were present at the opening night of FAT.
		Kantor's controversial work often incites heated discussions among both critics and the public.
		Istvan Kantor intends to mix his blood into the concrete to be used for the construction of the new AGO.
	www.thiswaythisway.com /fat.htm (440 words)

	Zeke's Gallery: Mmmm Crow tastes delicious! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Kantor threw blood on was by Jeff Koons not Paul McCarthy.
		Kantor which is in direct contradiction with yours, I figured I lay it on think and heavy.
		Kantor has been co-opted by the art establishment here in Canada, he has not transformed it in any way.
	zekesgallery.blogspot.com /2005/02/mmmm-crow-tastes-delicious.html (1711 words)

	BlogTO \| Istvan Kantor at AGYU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		When Kantor was arrested in November, the reporter writing for the Globe and Mail mistakenly credited him with a performance of Jubal Brown's, who's appreciation for brash video editing and disgusting subject matter is clearly inspired by Kantor's example, who is old enough now to be looked up to and respected.
		According to Kantor, this was his first authentic work of art, and the tanks, the smashed carts and burned-out cars, the shattered windows and bullet - riddled buildings are the primal scene - frightening, ecstatic - from which his art emerged.
		Kantor splashed his X, and held up a little red book for the documentary photographs, which for me, was an excellent reminder that Mao was a fucker, and that this exhibition was evidence of a terrible time, worth remembering, but not worth romanticizing.
	www.blogto.com /arts/2005/02/istvan_kantor_at_agyu/index.php (2224 words)

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