Argentina

Buenos Aires

Martin Molinaro
Web: www.martinmolinaro.com.ar

Australia

Sydney

Fiona McGregor
senVoodoo
Web: www.senvoodoo.com

Victoria

Stelarc -
Web: www.stelarc.va.com.au
Info:
Renowned Australian performance artist. Currently working with issues around the body, technology and science. Alternative website: www.merlin.com.au/stelarc/

Austria

Graz

Klaus Seewald
Theater ASOU
Web: www.theaterasou.at
Info:
Theater ASOU was founded in 1994.
Since then we have worked with international Theatermakers from the East and the West. And we have worked on a range of productions with them.
We have performed in Germany, Hungary, Costa Rica, Venezuela ans Coulumbia.
We have trained in Argentina, USA, the Netherlands, UK and India.

Vienna

Caroline Madl - Administration and Management
Superamas
Web: www.superamas.com
Info:
Since their first work Building (1999), SUPERAMAS have seen their task as taking on dance with materials from other areas of life. The group uses “untreated”, often unspectacular circumstances as well as readymades coming from everyday culture, and it treats those elements equally.

Kornelia Kilga
Toxic Dreams
Web: www.toxicdreams.at
Info:
Experimental theatre group.

Belgium

Brussels

Juan d'Oultremont
Web: www.juandoultremont.org
Info:
Belgian performance artist working since the late 70's

Christel Simons
Needcompany
Web: www.needcompany.org

Frank Pay
Poni
Web: www.poni.be
Info:
Performance group PONI brings molecules, tracing poetical axes by choosing its skeleton, with the vitality and spirit of a larva. An opportunity of becoming one of the many possible iterations of its present identity, an impersonal field where the body music exudes a danced smell, which eructs aesthetic perfumes, a ritual field from which images invest as much in extreme pulsing wildness as in introversion.

Canada

Calgary

GRANT BURNS - GENERAL MANAGER
One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre
Web: www.oyr.org

Hamilton

Irene Loughlin
Web: www.ireneloughlin.com
Info:
Irene Loughlin is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the areas of performance art, video and installation. She has presented her work in various national and international contexts including the work light as a feather/heavy as lead for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo and the Klaus Steinmetz Gallery (San Jose, Costa Rica), Zonadearte Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Desformes Festival (Santiago, Chile), The Western Front, Grunt Gallery, Xeno Gallery, 7a11d Festival (Toronto), FADO/OCAD (Toronto), The Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax) and Projet/Projo - Studio 303 (Montreal).

Montreal

Dayna McLeod
Web: www.daynarama.com
Info:
Dayna McLeod is a video and performance artist whose work is ripe with humour and socially charged situations. Her work often heightens the realities of sexual exploitation and orientation to create environments of absurd recognition for her audience, and has dressed as a giant beaver to prove the point. Dayna has traveled extensively with her performance work and her videos have played from London Ontario to London England- across Europe, North America, South America, and a few times on TV. She has received funding for video projects from the Canada Council and the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec, and is currently working on a video performance series about teabagging as a beautifying treatment for women.

Victoria Stanton
Web: www.bankofvictoria.com
Info:
Victoria Stanton is a performance artist, video-maker, photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, critical texts, and songs. Her time-based work includes sound on stage, group actions in public spaces, on-one-one encounters to “consult” or feed. She is interested in appropriating and disrupting the quotidian, in spontaneous intimacy, in treading vulnerability. Some performance work has been transformed into photo-installation or single-channel video. Performance writing and critical writing has appeared in several publications. Stanton is also the CEO of a bank: The Bank of Victoria. Such a lofty name deserves a big enterprise to match.

Québec

Eugenie Cliche
Les Fermiêres Obsèdèes
Web: www.fermieresobsedees.com
Info:
Les Fermières Obsédées is a collective made up of three visual artists (Annie Baillargeon, Eugénie Cliche and Catherine Plaisance). Using the means of action art, the F.O. sustain a progressive project, placing the rungs from appearance to appearance. They have created an image based on a uniform in constant evolution and mutation with their approach. Through this uniform, Les Fermières become, in a sense, complicit with or victim of, the same narrative track; uniformed, they meld into one another evoking a participative endorsement of their individual behaviours. A tidal effect comparable to the mass standardization and lethargy of our modern societies. With time, this emblem is submitted to the degeneration and temporality of multiple fights and stands taken. Approaching cliché, the woman's image represented by the wearing of this uniform serves them as matter to transgression; they desire the reinvention and the overthrowing of this image in all of its contemporaneousness. The F.O.'s performances are a crossover of several disciplines such as dance, theatre, music and visual arts. They create poetic and abstract images, drawing on concrete social positions as their source.

China

Hong Kong

Wen Yau
Web: www.wenyau.net
Info:
A cross-disciplinary live artist & curator based in HK, exploring intimacy in public space, uses of "unneccessary" space, the power relationship between audience and performer, the relationship between writing and performance, etc.

Denmark

Copenhagen

Peter Hanke
Hotel Pro Forma
Web: www.hotelproforma.dk
Info:
Leading Danish performance/theatre company.

Cophenhagen

Henrik Vestergaard Pedersen
Web: www.zonkel.com

Odense

Tine Kortermand
Web: www.kortermand.dk

Finland

Espoo

Magnus Logi Kristinsson
Web: www.maggilogi.com

Helsinki

Paivi Maunu
Web: www.palimama.net

Eeva-Mari Haikala
Web: www.eeva-mari.net
Info:
Eeva-Mari Haikala is Finnish artist currently living and working Helsinki. She is a versatile artist, who builds her works in the medium of video art drawing on the tradition of performance.

Teemu Maki
Web: www.teemumaki.com

Juha Valkeapää
Web: www.nbl.fi/juha.valkeapaa
Info:
Finnish artist working with improvised sound.

Annika Tudeer
Oblivia
Web: www.oblivia.fi

Kyläjoki

John Court
Web: www.johncourt.info
Info:
British performance artist based in northern Finland.

Lillandet

Tero Nauha
Web: www.tnauha.net
Info:
Finnish performance artist currently living in the USA.

Turku

Maija Hirvanen
Web: www.hirvanen.net
Info:
Maija Hirvanen (FIN) is a performance artist and choreographer. Her specific interests include relations of art and different belief systems, collaborative processes in cultural practice, performance as collective memory, performance and every day media, mechanisms of copying, adaptation and re- learning. Maija’s work has been presented in Europe and Finland since 1999.

Hirvanen’s artistic expression is a mix of performance, dance and writing. Her style is definitely incluenced by the practices of regular sweating, googling, mailing, file sharing, book glimpsing, street walking, kinds of talking, rain running. Curiousity is a recognisable feature of in Hirvanen’s work, which is based in different concepts of the human body as a vehicle for ideas and communication.

Hannu Elenius
Web: felix.taide.turkuamk.fi/~helenius

France

Bordeaux

Germany

Berlin

Katarzyna Kozyra
Web: www.katarzynakozyra.com.pl
Info:
The works of Katarzyna Kozyra point to the most important issues of human existence: identification, identity, transgression. She acts in the realm of cultural taboos referring to the bodily nature of man and to some stereotypes and behavior in the context of social life. She questions and overcomes them while stirring controversy and (usually) subjecting herself to the criticism of the outraged critics. She forces us to re-think and verify the settled order of values by unveiling the facts of reality…

Johannes Deimling
Web: www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de

Sofia Hulten
Web: www.goldrausch-kuenstlerinnen.de/kuenstlerinnen_2002_03/sofia_hulten/

Nezaket Ekici
Web: www.ekici-art.de

Eszter Salamon
Web: www.eszter- salamon.com

Steffi Weismann
Web: www.steffiweismann.de
Info:
Swiss performance and video artist based on Berlin.

Eva Meyer-Keller
Web: www.evamk.de

Alfredo Cramerotti
Web: www.alfredocramerotti.net

David Rych
Web: www.parakanal.com/rych

Tere Recarens
Web: www.tererecarens.com

Carola Lehmann
Web: www.kunstmachtschoen.de

Juan Dominguez
Web: www.insituproductions.net/_eng/_partners/jd_main.html
Info:
Juan Dominguez studied ballet, contemporary dance and video in Spain and the USA. He received several scholarships to study at the Movement Research in New York, where he became familiar with different techniques. He has cooperated with a number of choreographers and groups such as La Ribot, Gilles Jobin, Jérôme Bel, Xavier Le Roy and others.

Kristofer Paetau
Web: www.paetau.com
Info:
This website is documenting & analyzing my research in the field of contemporary visual arts.

Tanja Ostojic
Web: www.kultur.at/howl/tanja

Gabriel Loebell
Ballhaus Ost
Web: www.ballhausost.de
Info:
Occasional peformacne art events

Carola Dürr - Vorstandsvorsitzende
Europäische Ost West Akademie für Kultur und Medien
Web: www.ost-west- akademie.de
Info:
The European East-West Academy initiates and promotes projects which are both interdisciplinary and cross national in the fields of Art and culture.

Eva Hartmann - Administrator
Gob Squad
Web: www.gobsquad.com

Xavier Le Roy
Insitu Productions
Web: www.insituproductions.net

Peter Meining
Norton Commander Productions
Web: www.nc- productions.com

Dan Belasco Rogers
Plan B Performance
Web: www.planbperformance.net

Rita Schmitz - Kulturmanagerin
RestCycling Art Projektbüro
Web: www.restcyclingart.com
Info:
3rd international RestCycling Art Festival in Berlin, September 2004 Come & witness how art is made from refuse! 40 international artists will be creating interdisciplinary art from discarded materials. In addition, discussions (on environmental topics), workshops, video projections, live music, performance, theatre & a children's program will be taking place.

Hamburg

Lahstedt

Helge Meyer
Web: www.performance- art-research.de

Iceland

Reykjavik

Italy

Assemini

Massimo Zanasi
Arka Theatre (H.C.E.)
Web: web.tiscali.it/spazioarka
Info:
The ARKA THEATRE (H.C.E.), founded and managed by the actor/director Massimo Zanasi, is made up of two complementary sectors: The Theatrical Experimentation Ensemble, a real driving force concentrating on research involving modes of expression and on producing works which have been touring the world for several years, refocusing attention on the problem of Artifex (Actor/Actant-Author- Director), and The Performance Research Workshop, a centre for cultural and artistic proposals emphasizing linguistic and aesthetic forms in the various arts.

Monza

Nicola Frangione
Harta Performing Monza
Web: www.nicolafrangione.it
Info:
Working in Monza since 1972, as an interdisciplinary artist experimenting with visual arts, publishing graphic arts, music and sound poetry, video and theatre production, visual poetry and mail art. Also organises and annual performance art festival, see: www.hartaperformingmonza.it

Torreglia

Japan

Kyoto

Markuz Wernli Saito
Web: www.momentarium.org

Tokyo

Arai Shin-ichi
ARAIart.jp
Web: www.araiart.jp
Info:
Japanese performance artist who maintains an excellent website with information and documentation from a range of East Asian performance art festivals.

Latvia

Riga

Carl Biorsmark
Locomotive International
Web: www.borderland.org

Myanmar

Htein Lin
Web: www.hteinlin.com
Info:
Myanmar (Burmese) artist who has pioneered performance art in Burma since 1996, in and out of jail, combining his painting practice with performance using whatever materials are at hand. Currently working out of UK.

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Hester van Hasselt - Coordination
LISA
Web: www.associationlisa.com
Info:
Association of young theatre artists.

Norway

Bergen

Kurt Johannessen
Web: www.zeth.no/welcome.shtml

Joergen Knudsen
Baktruppen
Web: www.baktruppen.org

Trondheim

Philippines

Gapan City

Mideo M Cruz
Web: www.mideo.tk

Quezon City

Samuel Penaso - Member
Tupada Action and Media Art
Web: www.sampenaso.multiply.com
Info:
Fulltime visual & performance artist and member of "TUPADA action & media art group of performance artists based in the Philippines.

Poland

Sylvia Lajbig
Suka Off
Web: www.sukaoff.com
Info:
SUKA OFF is a Poland based artistic group existing since 1995. The founder and coordinator of all projects is Piotr Wegrzynski.
SUKA OFF joins artists from different countries and disciplines to create a unique mixture of audio/visual arts. The group managed to achieve an original and recognizable style in performance as well as in their multimedia woks. Their main inspirations are the postindustrial environment of Silesia region and the human carnality in all ist biological and physiological aspects.
SUKA OFF work consists of many kinds of modern art like visual theatre, happenings, performance art, photography, video and music visuals. So far the group performed in different spaces like theatres, art galleries, clubs and streets in Poland, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo and Czech Republic.

Krakow

Angel Pastor
Web: es.geocities.com/angel_pastor

Artur Tajber
Fort Sztuki Association
Web: www.tajber.asp.krakow.pl

Szczecin

Johannes Bergmark
Web: www.bergmark.org
Info:
Music with live electronics, instrument inventions and improvisation.

Russia

Moscow

Alexei Shulgin
Web: www.easylife.org

Serbia

Belgrade

Zorica Jovanovic
Flexible Art Network
Web: www.flexibleart.net
Info:
A wide informal net between individuals, organizations or groups. Flexibleart searches for creative authors, art forms through direct - personal communication and displacing of events into the urban city space. Working on actions / widely inviting public (not to be passive observer) + artists to explore strategies and approaches of live, direct contact and communication between creative art forms and daily life introduction / cooperation.

Odzaci

Nenad Bogdanovic
Web: www.geocities.com/man_gallery
Info:
Author of various international art projects and exhibitions. Founded Multimedial Art Studio and Festival IMAF. Since l993 begins working on art project MAN GALLERY NENAD BOGDANOVIC. His present art activity reveals itself in this project.

Spain

Barcelona

Madrid

Lorena Briscoe - Director and Performer
Medea 73
Web: www.medea73.com
Info:
MEDEA73 is a experimental theatre and perfomance group with people from UK, Colombia, Argentina, Portugal and Spain.The work is heavily influenced by dance, photography, video and studies of different techniques, and the goal is to conceive a personal language that can be constantly enriched by training and learning.

Sweden

Goteborg

Ilona Huss Walin
Web: www.natverkstan.net/ilona
Info:
Swedish artist working with performance, video and multimedia work in a social context.

Switzerland

Basel

Pascale Grau
Web: www.pascalegrau.ch

Geneva

Yann Marussich
Web: www.perceuseprod.ch
Info:
Yann Marussich was born in Geneva in 1966. A dancer and performer, he has created about twenty performances and choreographies since 1989. Nowadays he turns to the solo performance and body-art. His more recent works are the performance Bleu Provisoire and the body-installation Self-portrait in an ant-hill

Lausanne

Sandrine Kuster
Arsenic Theatre
Web: www.theatre- arsenic.ch

UK

Wladyslaw Kazmierczak
Web: www.kazmierczak.artist.pl
Info:
Wladyslaw Kazmierczak born (1951) is considered as one of Europe's foremost performance artists. He has worked as a live artist since 1974 creating hundreds of unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world (22 countries). Since 1997 he started duo performances with Ewa Rybska. Kazmierczak produced a number of political performances based on aspects of freedom in communist - and paradoxically also in a new, democratic Poland. His work focuses on difficult and traumatic themes; political hypocrisy, issues of oppression, freedom and elimination of the original cultures by the process of globalization. Kazmierczak has very often used in performances his ironic and nihilistic attitude especially against empty, fashionable values. http://www.kazmierczak.artist.pl/ Since 1993 he became a curator and the organizer of the International Performance Art Festival "Castle of Imagination". www.performance.art.pl/ He is also an author of essays on performance art and a creator of the on line art magazine Hysterics: www.hysterics.art.pl/ Since 1991 he is a director of Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk /Ustka. http://www.baltic-gallery.art.pl/

Natalie L'Herroux
Breathe
Web: www.breatheartists.co.uk
Info:
Breathe is a collaboration between three artists; Abigail Davey Polly Hazlewood and Natalie L'Herroux. Breathe aims to create interactive performance installations that situate their audiences in an unsettled space between the public and private. They have been commissioned and sucessfully presented work in various venues and festivals acrosse the UK.

Christine Molloy
Desperate Optimists
Web: www.desperateoptimists.com

Belfast

Alastair MacLennan
Web: www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/maclennan
Info:
Alastair MacLennan is Research Professor in Fine Art at the School of Art and Design, University of Ulster in Belfast. Since 1975 he has been based in Belfast and was a founder member of Belfast's Art and Research Exchange. He is also a member of the European Performance Group called 'Black Market International.'

During the 1970’s and 1980’s, he made long durational performances in Britain and America, of up to 144 hours each, non-stop, usually neither eating nor sleeping throughout. Subject matter dealt with political, social and cultural malfunction. He currently travels extensively in Eastern and Western Europe, also America and Canada, presenting ‘Actuations’ (his term for performance/installations).

Bristol

Cardiff

Andre Stitt
Web: www.andrestitt.com
Info:
Born in Belfast, N. Ireland, Stit is considered one of Europe's foremost performance artists. He has worked as a live artist since 1976 creating hundreds of uniquie performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world.

Chris Fraser
Trailer Park
Web: trailerparkupdates.blogspot.com
Info:
Trailerpark is dedicated to showcasing new innovative and challenging interdisciplinary artworks within the public arena. Now also taking place in London.

Paul Granjon
Z Productions
Web: www.zprod.org
Info:
Z Productions is a company founded by electronic artist Paul Granjon in 1988. Z Productions is specialised in low technology applied to electronic arts. The output of Z Productions consists mostly of robots for performance or exhibition, short video films and internet related activities.

Edinburgh

Michelle Kasprzak
Web: michelle.kasprzak.ca
Info:
Canadian artist currently based in the United Kingdom that explores intersections of performance art and technology

Glasgow

Grace Surman
Web: www.gracesurman.com

Hull

Brian Routh
Kipper Kids
Web: www.digitalkipper.com
Info:
'In'famous performance duo who began working in the UK in the mid 70's

Liverpool

Liam Greenall
Web: www.liamikey.co.uk
Info:
Liverpool based interdisciplinary artist Liam Greenall, works in the mediums of performance and new media. As an artist who explore’s the relationship between the personal and political topography of his gender and identity as a performative self within 21st Century culture, Liam Greenall hopes to challenge both the definition of socially deviant behaviours as imposed by mainstream society and the constraints he imposes upon himself within a regimented sub-culture.

Sharon Smith - Manager
Blue Stocking Social Club (Max Factory)
Web: www.thebluestockingsocialclub.com
Info:
The Blue Stocking Social Club is a brand new project growing out of the grand old project max factory. A semi-curated project where evenings are spent colluding in various fictions over dinner and through drinking.

London

Rona Lee
Web: www.rona-lee.co.uk
Info:
Making work which incorporates installation, sculpture, performance, video and more recently photographic techniques.

Aaron Williamson
Web: www.aaronwilliamson.co.uk

Jon Fawcett
Web: www.jonfawcett.com

Robin Deacon
Web: www.robindeacon.com

Lee Adams
Web: www.leeadams.net
Info:
Lee Adams is an interdisciplinary artist, curator & producer based in London. Trained in fine art and later in butoh, his recent work tests the limits and boundaries of his physical control and endurance, whilst attempting to investigate the positioning & relationships between performer and audience. Thematically his work questions notions of otherness, abjection, sex, love, pain, death, transcendence and the politics/aesthetics of the body in relation to the the mechanisms of culture & power

Bobby Baker
Web: www.bobbybakersdailylife.com
Info:
Performance artist Bobby Baker explores issues through art and performance which radically affect our daily lives. Subject matter ranges through health, shopping and motherhood, seemingly mundane subjects which are explored in an idiosyncratic and innovative performance style. The work is performed in a wide range of spaces from theatres to kitchens.

Franko B
Web: www.franko-b.com
Info:
Infamous body artist based in London.

Marcia Farqhuar
Web: www.marciafarquhar.com

Stuart Brisley
Web: www.ordure.org

Helena Goldwater
Web: www.kgoldwater.freeserve.co.uk

Anthony Howell
Web: www.anthonyhowell.org

Fiona Templeton
Web: www.fionatempleton.org
Info:
Fiona Templeton's work ranges across various disciplines. Her performance work is born of a conceptual investigation of theatre as a total medium – language, space, and time, and as an "art of relation", in particular in its thinking of the audience. It is daring in scale and in poetic density.

Joshua Sofaer
Web: www.joshuasofaer.com

Oliver Frost
Web: www.oliverfrost.com
Info:
Oliver Frost was born in London in 1975 and having spent over 10 years studying theatre, dance, performance & fine art Oliver completed his studies in 2003, and has been creating interdisciplinary performances since, as well as co-curating the annual London interdisciplinary art event ACT ART and in June 2007 will stage the 5th event.
Oliver's work comes from a personal, autobiographical perspective. His work is very much theme based and explores identity politics, especially queer politics, gender and masculinity. His work also looks at issues around love and loss and power relationships. In terms of form the work explores and uses endurance, ritual and abject by using blood and raw meat.
The combination of form and content in the work opens up questions around transgression, physiological and physical limitations of the self from a humanist perspective, and the inherent implication of the ephemeral.

Julia Lee Barclay - Artistic Director
Apocryphal Theatre
Web: www.flyingoutofsequence.org

Matt Adams
Blast Theory
Web: www.blasttheory.co.uk

Simon Casson
Duckie
Web: www.duckie.co.uk

Matt Davis
Field
Web: www.in-a- field.blogspot.com
Info:
Field is a space for performers to explore being in - a controvertible space: one that refuses to prioritise interpretation before experience.

Ronald Fraser Munro - Artistic Director
K3 Kinder Kunst Korporation
Web: www.k3media.demon.co.uk

Bruce Gilchrist
London Fieldworks
Web: www.londonfieldworks.com
Info:
British artist working with digital and biological feedback systems in a performance environment.

Kate Holden - Company Manager
Lone Twin
Web: www.lonetwin.com
Info:
Formed in 1997 by Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters, Lone Twin have performed across Europe, North America and Australia. Dealing with ideas of place, travel and orientation, Lone Twin are committed to making entertaining and publicly accessible works.

Felicity Croydon
Max Factory
Web: www.maxfactory.org.uk

Robert Pacitti
Pacitti Company
Web: www.pacitticompany.com
Info:
A Live Art company which pursues excellence in delivering high quality, original works of theatre through engaging in rigorous research and development programmes, resulting in works that are of value to the widest community possible.

Julian Maynard-Smith
Station House Opera
Web: www.stationhouseopera.com
Info:
A British performance group that has been making large scale work for over 20 years.

Morecambe

Anthony Padgett
Web: www.theism.co.uk

Nottingham

Adrian Heathfield - Principal Research Fellow Performance and Live Art
Nottingham Trent University
Web: www.adrianheathfield.com
Info:
Academic and writer specialising in live art.

Paul Wetherell - Artistic Director
Reckless Sleepers
Web: www.reckless- sleepers.co.uk
Info:
Reckless Sleepers was formed in 1989 from a desire to make theatre pieces that are all too rarely seen in this country; using physical materials, objects, space, in ways that were not just decorative.

We were tired of seeing theatre that might as well be mediated, and want to create experiences that are intense, scary... things that are hard to understand and get hold of, as extraordinary as the experience of walking down the street.

Although there have been periods when the artists working with Reckless Sleepers have formed an ensemble company, this is no longer the way we work, the core of the group at present being Mole Wetherell, the artistic director of Reckless Sleepers and Daniel Belasco Rogers, key artistic collaborator. Artists are invited to work collaboratively under the umbrella of the organisation which has established itself with a permanent office and rehearsal space at PreSet, in Nottingham, which it shares with its partner organisation, the National Dance Agency, Dance4.

Reckless Sleepers' output has always been diverse, and as well as the theatre work, we have made site specific work, outdoor installation and educational work for a number of institutions and contexts.

Sheffield

Tim Etchells
Web: www.timetchells.com
Info:
My work is diverse, moving from a base in performance into visual art and fiction. Working across these different media and contexts tends to open up new possibilities and allows me to approach related ideas and experiences again by different routes, hoping to get closer or maybe further away - searching for a new perspective.

Alex Kelly
Third Angel
Web: www.thirdangel.co.uk

Hilary Foster - Company Manager
Third Angel
Web: www.thirdangel.co.uk
Info:
Young experiemental theatre/performance group based in Sheffield, northen England.

TIVERTON

PENNY SANDERS
FORKBEARD FANTASY
Web: www.forkbeardfantasy.co.uk

York

Nathan Walker
Opacity Inc.
Web: www.opacityinc.blogspot.com
Info:
Opacity Inc. are a post-nowist performance art collaboration. Their work interrogates ideas of space and place in contemporary performance and is driven by passionate activism and search for political/social change. Opacity Inc. believe that general revolution originates in the appropriation and alteration of the matieral environment and its space. They make performance tours of citys, activist actions, video art, book/page work and studio based live art.

USA

Baltimore

Ric Royer
Web: www.ricroyer.com
Info:
text, performance, little songs and dances

Chicago

Erik Fabian
Web: www.ErikAndTheAnimals.com
Info:
Erik Fabian is an artist working in performance, installation and interviews. The site blog features reviews and commentary on Chicago performance

Ania Greiner
3 Card Molly
Web: www.3cardmolly.org
Info:
3 card molly is an interdisciplinary performance and video collaboration between Ania Greiner and Liz Winfield. Using techniques of physical theater, modern dance and butoh, they tell witty and poignant stories that integrate everyday actions and sounds.

Tyler B. Myers
Cupola Bobber
Web: www.cupolabobber.com
Info:
Cupola Bobber is Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers. They have been working together since 1999 and have created 3 performances together; 2 as Cupola Bobber - 2001's Subterfuge and 2004's Petitmal. They met while in the BFA program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; both received their degrees in 2001. Stephen also makes photo's, installation, film and video. Tyler is a member of Lucky Pierre, another Chicago art collective whose work has been seen worldwide.

Lin Hixson - Director
Goat Island
Web: www.goatislandperformance.org
Info:
Leading performance group who have been estalished in Chicago for over 15 years.

Benjamin Bellas
i.e.
Web: www.ie.udcycle.com
Info:
As individual artists we address a wide array of contemporary issues. Mediums such as performance, photography, and video serve to manifest our vision of sculptural space. Though our works are interdisciplinary, they originate from a sculptural perspective i.e. ethereal concepts distilled into physical manifestations. The work often takes forms as varied as drum playing wizards to waiting for nonexistent daughters at American Girl Place.

Tyler Myers
Lucky Pierre
Web: www.luckypierre.org
Info:
Lucky Pierre, a multi-disciplinary art-making performance collective formed in 1996, has created numerous pieces in a variety of forms and media. Their work includes the performances I Married Wyatt Earp, Happiness, the upcoming Rock and Roll: Impatience and How to Manage Fear which has been performed at the PAC/edge Festival Chicago, and in New York, Estonia, Switzerland and most recently at the Eurokaz International Theater Festival in Zagreb, Croatia.

Los Angeles

Ron Athey
Web: www.ronathey.com

Jamie McMurry
Web: www.mcmurryperformance.com
Info:
Jamie McMurry has been creating original works of performance art and presenting them all over the world for more than 10 years. His works often include intensely visceral activities and a densely packed series of actions referencing the pacing and behavior of young children at confused and often mischievous play. The materials as well as the actions come from what the artist considers to be a place of memory and nostalgia, but quintessentially suburban Americana. The messages behind the works often reveal a longing for the past and for one's youth, a remembrance of the people who had a role in that history as well as a need to connect with the viewer in a personal and emotionally empathetic way.

New York

Nicole Blackman
Web: www.nicoleblackman.com

Tehching Hsieh
Web: www.one-year- performance.com

Ben Vautier
Web: www.ben- vautier.com
Info:
Historically important artist in the arena of Performance Art and Fluxus.

Adrian Piper
Web: www.adrianpiper.com

Karen Finley
Web: www.karenfinley.net

Fiona Templeton
Web: www.fionatempleton.org
Info:
Fiona Templeton's work ranges across various disciplines. Her performance work is born of a conceptual investigation of theatre as a total medium – language, space, and time, and as an "art of relation", in particular in its thinking of the audience. It is daring in scale and in poetic density.

Peter Grzybowski
Web: www.grzybowski.org
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Artist working with performance, multimedia and painting.

Robert Ayers
Web: www.robertayers- artist.com

Coco Fusco
Web: www.thing.net/~cocofusco/

Billy Talen
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Web: www.revbilly.com

Princetown

Annie Sprinkle
Web: www.anniesprinkle.org

Red Hook

Jeff McMahon
Web: www.jeffmcmahonprojects.net
Info:
Based in New York since 1979, McMahon has written and performed more than 26 text/movement/media performance pieces throughout the U.S, Canada, and Europe, and received eight Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as funding from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the NY State Council on the Arts. His dance films have been shown worldwide and nationally broadcast.

San Francisco

Guillermo Gomez Pena
Pocha Nostra
Web: www.pochanostra.com

Laura Brun
The Lab
Web: www.thelab.org

Syracuse

Chris Wildrick - Assistant Professor
Syracuse University
Web: www.chriswildrick.com
Info:
Chris Wildrick is a performance, conceptual, and systems- based artist. He works on his own and with the collaborative performance (etc.) groups 2funBasTards and Earl.

Troy

Nao Bustamante
Web: www.naobustamante.com