Many of my works are durational in nature, minimal in actions and materials, and are often located in peripheral spaces of larger events. I create works in response to specific sites, engaging with the immediate landscape and materiality of the location, its history, use, or politics. Sites have included a former Cold War missile base in the United States, a 15th century Turkish bath in Macedonia, an aluminum factory in Argentina, an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium in Poland, and the site of the Spanish landing in the Philippines.
Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, ranging from solo performances to large-scale interactive works incorporating installation and performance. She has presented her work at festivals, alternative spaces, galleries, museums, universities and conferences throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North and South America. She is on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she teaches performance art. She is a member of Mobius, Inc., which she founded in 1977. Mobius is an interdisciplinary collaborative of artists who also operate a gallery in Boston.
Website: http://marilynarsem.net
Image credits: Marking Time I, - a durational performance by Marilyn Arsem. Nox Contemporary, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. November, 2012.
Photo by Kristina Lenzi.
Artist, Performer, curator “Navinki” international independent performance-art festival, 1999-2014 in Minsk Belarus.
“UNITY”
Performance is a quest for one’s path in life, and is the only relevant art‑form capable of reacting adequately to the challenges of the rapidly‑changing world without adjusting itself to anyone’s demands. Performance is art in a process of constant flux. I like its variability, fragility and depth, which are conducive to mutual understanding and the unification of human feelings and emotions. It can take them to a higher level, and allows one to forget one’s own importance, reputation, merits and achievements. In performance, you are entirely responsible for everything you show the audience. Most importantly, you experience it in a common active space. You are in a situation. You see eyes; you hear yourself and others breathing. Performance unifies. Personal experience. What could be more important than us being together, united as a whole? It gives rise to thoughts about the integrity and unity of all that is alive on the planet, for that is how things really are. But are we still united as we leave the hall at the end of the festival? I think so. Belief in divine values gives us that chance. In performance, like in real life, one goes from the dark into the light, and it is a long journey, one as long as life itself.
Image credit: Victor Peetrov performance on Navinki 2011, Minsk, Belarus.
Katri Kainulainen, born in Finland 1978.
A second generation performance artist, also works with organizing and curating events an shows in performance art.
”My works form a disconcerted memo of the years of my life so far, of the changes and marks in my physical frame and of all the ridiculous and serious experiences. I aim to please, and not the least myself. At the moment I´m prosessing the age of 35. It´s tricky.”
Image credit: Antti Ahonen, 2013
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Hélène Matte is a poetry based visual artist, and visual artist who writes. In her interdisciplinary approach drawing and poetry are interpreted as an act of presence. Author of numerous articles on art, organizer of cultural events.
Image: Hélène Matte 2004, http://www.helene-matte.com
Pavana Reid born in Thailand and moved to Northern Ireland in 1988 (at the height of the political trouble). Reid’s Art education went from a night class to a degree in Fine & Applied Art in Northern Ireland. She entered Performance art by using her images to express an emotion, sense of belonging and examining her own identity before she's even knew what performance art was. Pavana sees her performance as an experience in the relationship between people, place and time. She chooses actions or create situation to demonstrate her idea as an individual. Pavana is now living between Bergen, Norway and Northern Ireland, UK.
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Photo by Jordan Hutchings. 'A Party" performance by Pavana Reid 6th Feb 2014 at Catalyst Art Gallery Belfast UK
Performance Art event "Exchange places: Bel-Mad" A performance art exchange between Belfast and Madrid organized by Bbeyond
