Linda Mussmann
Linda Mussmann spent 18 years as a farm hand on the family farm in Indiana Spent 4 years at Purdue University 65-69 graduated with BA theater/english Spent 22 years in New York City founded Time & Space Limited Theater Company and worked in the theater world producing theater that was most often reviewed by the dance critics and art critics. Such as Ami Wallach, Jack Anderson, Anna Kisselgoff, Ray Rinaldi, Emory Lewis and more.
Performed in spaces and designed sets & lights for most of TSL's theater works in spaces such as but not limited to The Museum of Modern Art Garden, The Whitney Equitable Center, The Whitney at Philip Morris Gallery, LaMama theater, Merce Cunningham's space, Riverside Dance, PS 21 lower east side.
And I lived and worked in our company's loft on 22nd St. in NYC creating many works for the avant garde. Merce Cunningham, and John Cage were often our fans during the 1980's here I was seen more often than not making work that merged movement, sound, light, moving pictures and text into a performance work.
I met Claudia Bruce in 1976 when I was directing Gertrude Stein's THE MAKING OF AMERICANS-- we have been together ever since. We are engaged to be married. A long engagement.
I have often worked in galleries, Northampton, Toronto, and NYC.
I moved to Hudson, New York and began to show work to this community in 1991.
I live in Hudson and make work here in Hudson, New York.
I am a co-director along with Claudia Bruce at TSL TIME& SPACE LIMITED THEATER CO. INC. www.timeandspace.org
I have spent the last 18 years working with Claudia Bruce working in Hudson, NYC.
Occasionally doing work in NYC and radio projects in Germany.
And on occasion working for political change.
I have designed lights and sets for over 3 decades, and I am a tinkerer and a thinker. I love my workshop and imagine the possibilities in simple things. I am a believer in the hope for change that is long and slow and persistent. I am a feminist. Remember that movement....a long slog to be sure.
I have had a show at the John Davis Gallery in 1998 and one scheduled for 2011.