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.

“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.

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

Mobilisationsstödet from

http://www.helene-matte.com/

Image: Hélène Matte 2004, http://www.helene-matte.com

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

Videos:

https://vimeo.com/vaidat

texts:
http://kamane.lt/eng/Kamane-s-texts/2011-year2/December/I-WILL-KNIT-ARMOUR-FOR-MYSELF/%28searchTerm%29/vaida%20tamo%C5%A1evi%C4%8Di%C5%ABt%C4%97

http://kamane.lt/eng/Kamane-s-texts/INTERNAL-SORES-OR-CREATION-AS-RITUAL/%28searchTerm%29/vaida%20tamo%C5%A1evi%C4%8Di%C5%ABt%C4%97

Image credit: "Little pieces of my heart can't break any more". Performance. 2013 07 06 6:00. Photo: Andrius Tamašauskas

http://www.arti.asp.krakow.pl/

Image credit: foto by Martyna Piasecka

Artur Grabowski (f 1977), Krakow, Polen. Har studerat vid Skulpturavdelningens verkstad för mediaverksamhet vid Konstakademin i Krakow. Tillhör en ung konstnärsgeneration som ägnar sig åt performance, videokonst och installationer. Han påbörjade sin verksamhet inom detta område 1998. Sedan dess har han genomfört ett hundratal verk på många performancefestivaler i Polen och övriga världen. Har deltagit i många performanceföreställningar i Tyskland, Frankrike och USA. Är medorganisatör för den internationella performancefestivalen Zamek Wyobrazni (Fantasislottet), för den internationella alternativa teaterfestivalen A'part samt för internationella aktionskonstfestivalen Interakcje som äger rum i Piotrkow Trybunalski. Dessutom är han medlem i Föreningen Konstfortet där Lukasz Guzek (vice ordförande) och Artur Tajber (ordförande) är ledande figurer. Verkar tillsammans med Anna Syczewska i konstnärsduon Toothsystem.

http://juhaszrokko.eu/en/#/home

Image credit: durational performance on Private Nationalism exhibition. Prague. Divus. Photographer: Jonathan Ravasz. József R, sourse: Juhász facebook

FASHION ZOMBIE

Fashion Zombie is a challenging, provocative and darkly humorous. The work explores the artistic, socio-economic and ecological implications of collective, global, human denial. It is a road trip into an imagination where monologues, dance and the songs of David Bowie argue that our fascination with Vampirism and/or Zombie culture is not a love of horror but suggestive of a collective hypnosis that pacifies and numbs us to the forthcoming ecological crisis. It explores the cognitive dissoncance of world where the free market economy freely pollutes the earth, jails individuals trying to save that earth and a world that spends more money searching for a new habitual planet than would pay to feed the poor of the world 5 times over. Over 60 minutes we meet fanaticism, apathy, psychotic Texan preachers and learn exactly how many Zombie films have been made since 1961. Fashion Zombie is a remarkable and unique solo performance.

“Artist Lynch is a god given choreographer, director and performance. The work is insightful, talented and stays true from beginning to end" S. Zekiros. BYENKALDER Denmark

"Lynch's new performances opens the Dance Festival 'Dans-K' at Kaleidoskop and is a complete hit: exciting, wild and promising.” Janus Kodal POLITIKEN Denmark

Stuart Lynch is a performance artist, theatre director and teacher. He has studied sculpture, dance, psychology and theatre and has been working as an artist since 1990. His Lynchcompany has been at the forefront of experimental Danish theatre since its creation in 2010 and his solo works, Lynch Concert has toured internationally for over 10 years. He was a dancer with Min Tanaka’s butoh dance company, Mai Juku in the early 90’s and is the originator of the training technique TST or Theatre Switch Training. Currently he is the leader of The Copenhagen Film and Theatre School (Københavns Film & Teaterskole – www.teaterskolen.com). He tours regularly lecturing on education and art.

www.lynchcompany.dk

Image: Stuart Lynch. Photographer: Søren Dø - Eyes in Dk

The so-called fragility of the woman’s body is always seen as disadvantageous when pitted against the strength of a mans body and this perception causes both genders to reformulate perspectives on their own physical selves. These changes in physical and social behavior are strictly in response to this altered perspective, and not driven by the simple hormonal differences that exist between us. Other external influences that contribute to this altered perspective are upbringing and education, which both also subscribe to the notion of the “weaker sex”.

Encounters between men and women with these lifelong influences and a constant reaffirmation of the above described perspective, is the locale where my work takes place. These encounters hold a valuable discourse in which the artist’s and audience’s bodies become equally vulnerable, and a different dynamic is exposed.

BIO
Alejandra Beatriz Herrera Silva has been an active organizer, artist and teacher in the field of performance for more than a decade and has exhibited her work extensively all over the world. Originally from Santiago, Chile, she was a founding member of the PerfoPuerto arts organization which was responsible for presenting the works of over 100 regional, national and international artists at varied locations throughout South America. She currently resides in Los Angeles, USA and continues to actively organize exhibits and perform her own solo works.

Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY769YAfMqM&feature=plcp
“Túnel carpiano” 2006, 2 hours, Exchange places performance art event, Black Box Gallery, Belfast, North Ireland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdK0aoCBbs&feature=plcp
“Intolerante al genero” 2006, 2 hours, Depicting action exhibition, 18 Street Art Complex, Los Angeles, California, USA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_rcJ8JD40U&feature=plcp
“Sagrade and profane“, 2011, 10 min,  Free Clinic, # 2, Action Bureau, Human Resourses, Cottage Galllery, Chinatown, LA, USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPnKbDQQjg&feature=plcp
“O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”, 2011, 3 hours, “3X6X3#3 performance art exhibition, LACE Gallery, LA, USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGqqNzDiYNw
"Woman's challenge" 2012, 3 hours, Organized by FADO, Merced Union Art Gallery. Toronto, Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9406kEfY9vc
"Domestic labor" 2013, 2 hours, Trouble Festival, Brussels, Belgic.

Image credit: "Domestic labor" 2013, 2 hours, Trouble Festival, Brussels, Belgic. Photo by Hichem Dahes