"Like Buddha beneath the Bodhi-tree, the audience sat in the midst of Chiaromonte's "The Cell", and hopefully came away with knowledge, and with a desire to make a difference instead of a sameness." Marrian McLellan Work, Art Papers
Joseph Beuys described performance art as social sculpture, and indeed one was quite aware of Chiaromonte's deftness at moulding and shaping his audience." Marian McLellan Work, Art Paper
"Chiaromonte tenuously weaves between contemporary issues and those which are considered timeless. He doesn’t seem to replace one preoccupation for the other. In a sense his performance seems primarily focused on the act of ceremony and mythmaking. The audience is offered the task of drawing the relevances and transposing the signification of the performance themselves. It is precisely the overlap and the shift of the signifiers he uses that draws my attention." Crosby McCloy, Number Art Journal #5
"For Chiaromonte, suffering(Etymologically akin to allowing) is a crisis of embodiment...The territory of body is the landscape upon which these spiritual dilemmas proliferate and seemingly belie the human condition." Cosby McCloy, Number Art Journal
"The case that can be made for trans-Atlantic voyages by medieval Irish monks is a reasonable one...."
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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