Three-Day Durational Performance Begins at Philadelphia’s Public Trust March 18 Honoring Susan Kleckner’s Radical Yearlong 1986 Storefront Occupation
Window Peace: An Anarchive includes performances by feminist icons Linda Montano alongside Kiran Jandu and Philadelphia artists Eva Wu and Angel Shanel Edwards
Programming includes Sharon Hayes, Arely Marisol Peña, Eddy Levin and Susan Jahoda
March 18–20, 2026 | Public Trust, Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA (March 11, 2026) — As part of Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Public Trust will present Window Peace: An Anarchive, a three-day durational performance program from March 18–20, 2026 (10am–5pm daily). The project revisits and extends Kleckner’s original Window Peace (1986–87), a yearlong feminist storefront performance in which more than forty women artists sequentially occupied a SoHo display window as a public act of endurance, visibility, and political reflection. This contemporary activation brings together feminist performance pioneer Linda Montano alongside Kiran Jandu with Philadelphia-based collaborators Eva Wu and Angel Shanel Edwards
Organized by artist Kiran Jandu, Window Peace: An Anarchive honors the radical premise of Kleckner’s original gesture—sustained presence as a form of protest and care—while activating it within the urgencies of the present moment. In 1986, Kleckner transformed a commercial storefront window into a site of contemplative resistance, created in solidarity with the women of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp protesting nuclear weapons in Berkshire, England. Positioned between interior and exterior, private and public, the window became both stage and threshold. Women artists occupied the confined space for extended periods, asserting visibility in a cultural landscape that frequently marginalized their bodies, voices, and labor. The work foregrounded endurance, stillness, and collective action as feminist strategies.
Four decades later, Window Peace: An Anarchive asks: How can presence function as resistance in a moment of political instability, information overload, and social fragmentation? What does it mean to “reverse the gaze” today? Throughout the three days, Jandu will be joined by Philadelphia-based artists and collaborators, who will activate the space through sound, screening, conversation, and embodied practice. The performance embraces what Kleckner described as “raw material”: lived experience, vulnerability, process, and political urgency held in real time.
Across three days, the project unfolds as an act of care, resistance, and witnessing. From March 18–20, Jandu will remain blindfolded in the Public Trust window daily from 10am–5pm, undertaking a seven-hour meditation that explores the relationship between personal and political peace. The work draws inspiration from Linda Montano’s Blindfold Window Peace in the original 1986 project and her long-running “Living Art” practice, reframing the storefront window as a site for interior reckoning rather than outward display.
Jandu will be joined by fellow artists and collaborators who activate the space through conversation, performance, care work, and film:
- March 18: 2–4pm — Eva Wu joins Jandu for conversation and artistic activation.
- March 19: 12–1:30pm — Angel Shanel Edwards performs the poetics of the mundane through acts of transition, nourishment, and witnessing; 6–8:30pm — Screening of Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros with director Daniel Weintraub.
- March 20: 10am–7pm — Linda Montano performs Blindfold Window Peace once again, nearly forty years after her participation in the original project; 5–7pm — Community Circle led by Susan Jahoda and Sharon Hayes, bringing together artists, activists, and scholars to reflect on the legacy of Window Peace and its relevance today.
Rather than a reenactment, Window Peace: An Anarchive functions as a living archive—one grounded not only in documents and ephemera, but in bodies, attention, and shared time. Documentation throughout the program—including journals, drawings, photography, and sound—underscores the porous boundary between action and record, performance and memory.
Blindfold Window Peace is mentored by Linda Montano, guided by Eddy Levin, and documented by Arely Marisol Peña, with inspiration from Susan Kleckner.
Presented as part of Raw Material: The Art and Life of Susan Kleckner, on view at Haverford College through April 5, 2026, the program honors Kleckner’s belief that art is not separate from life but embedded within it—responsive to political conditions, shaped by collective labor, and sustained through acts of attention.
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