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
Michael Green
- 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.
PME
Web: www.pme-art.ca
Info: Theatre group founded in 1987. Our organisation
favours original creations that risk both commentary on the world and daring interrogation of the processes of
theatrical representation. We give full range to the free association of ideas, making diverse use of stage and acting
technique.
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.
Toronto
Ulysses Castellanos
Web: www.ulyssesdadabase.com
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.
Cuba
Havana
Tania Bruguera
Web: www.taniabruguera.com
Denmark
Copenhagen
Peter Hanke
Hotel Pro Forma
Web: www.hotelproforma.dk
Info: Leading Danish performance/theatre company.
Superflex
Web: www.superflex.net
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
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.
Juha Valkeapää
Web: www.nbl.fi/juha.valkeapaa
Info: Finnish artist working with improvised sound.
Mimosa Pale
Web: www.mimosapale.com
Teemu Maki
Web: www.teemumaki.com
Paivi Maunu
Web: www.palimama.net
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
Hannu Elenius
Web: felix.taide.turkuamk.fi/~helenius
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.
France
Bordeaux
Grand Magasin
Web: www.grandmagasin.net
Info: Very interesting French performance art duo.
Marseille
Christine Bouvier
Ornic'art
Web: lieu-ressource-
ornicart.over-blog.com
Info: Organisation promoting performance art and organising
workshops and an annual festival. Also maintains a French language blog of performance resources.
Germany
Berlin
Tere Recarens
Web: www.tererecarens.com
Sofia Hulten
Web: www.goldrausch-
kuenstlerinnen.de/kuenstlerinnen_2002_03/sofia_hulten/
Eszter Salamon
Web: www.eszter-
salamon.com
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
Nezaket Ekici
Web: www.ekici-art.de
Carola Lehmann
Web: www.kunstmachtschoen.de
Alfredo Cramerotti
Web: www.alfredocramerotti.net
Eva Meyer-Keller
Web: www.evamk.de
Steffi Weismann
Web: www.steffiweismann.de
Info: Swiss performance and video artist based on
Berlin.
David Rych
Web: www.parakanal.com/rych
Johannes Deimling
Web: www.bbbjohannesdeimling.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.
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…
Linda Franke
Web: www.lindafranke.com
A Rose Is
Web: www.a-rose-is.org
Info: A group of performing artists - musicians, actors,
directors, scenographers - living in Europe (Germany, Switzerland, England, Belgium) working on experimental
forms of theatre between dramatic and musical theatre, performance and installation.
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
JaMbS & Wogs
Web: www.aktionskunst.com
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.
Rimini Protokoll
Web: www.rimini-
protokoll.de
She She Pop
Web: www.sheshepop.de
Wilhelm Groener
Web: www.wilhelmgroener.net
Hamburg
Showcase Beat Le Mot
Web: www.showcasebeatlemot.de
Info: Young experimental theater/performance group based
in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.
Lahstedt
Helge Meyer
Web: www.performance-
art-research.de
Iceland
Reykjavik
Icelandic Love Corporation
Web: www.ilc.is
Info: ILC is a group of three artists: Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, Jóní
Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir.
They have been working together for almost a decade and believe in the power of collaboration.
Israel
Tel Aviv
Lezli Rubin-Kunda
Web: www.lezlirubinkunda.com
Info: performance/ interdisciplinary artist
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
Gruppo Sinestetico
Web: www.grupposinestetico.it
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
Mexico
Mexico City
Elvira Santamaría Torres
Web: www.elvirasantamariaperformanceart.blogspot.com
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
Joergen Knudsen
Baktruppen
Web: www.baktruppen.org
Trondheim
High Heel Sisters
Web: home.no.net/blunkart/arkiv_sider/high_heel_sisters1.html
Info: High Heel Sisters (HHS) started their collaboration in the
spring 2002. The High Heel Sisters are: Line S. Karlstrøm, Karianne Stensland and Malin Arnell. HHS investigate
the set limits and laws of our own as well as the society.
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
Angelika Fojtuch
Web: www.angelikafojtuch.net
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
Club8
Web: personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/club8/
Info: Club 8 es un colectivo de performers que tiene el
propósito de difundir el Arte de Acción, El club 8 pretende revalorizar el arte de acción y situarlo en el lugar que le
corresponde en la práctica artística actual en las instituciones y medios de comunicación, así como llevar la
performance a espacios donde hasta el momento no ha estado presente. Club 8 está formado por María Cosmes,
Carlos Pina, Ängel Pastor, Manuel Morales y Jonathan Blud. Todos ellos han participado en los principales
festivales de performance del país. También se dedican a tareas de gestión y dfusión artísticas.
Company Conservas
Web: www.conservas.tk/pages_en/PAGES/CIA.htm
Info: Performance theatre group
Madrid
Nieves Correa San Jose
Web: www.nievescorrea.org
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
Agentur für Performancekunst
Web: www.kasko.ch
Info: A project from Timothy Grundy, Barbara Neidhart and
Isabel Rohner, the 'Agency for Performance Art' was presented during the Liste 05 festival at the Kaskenkondensator
festival. Although the agency appears to have been a temporary project, the remaining website provides links to over
20 performance artists.
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
- Direction
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
Gilbert and Grape
Web: www.gilbertandgrape.co.uk
Info: Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh and Helen Pritchard under
the name GilbertandGrape (UK & Norway) work within a genre they choose to refer to as performance journalism and
the way they approach their work is by exploring subjects through a perspective of language, questioning how we
read and write our beings in this world. During the last three years GilbertandGrape have produced work connected
to nostalgia.
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
Polar Produce
Web: www.polarproduce.org
The Special Guests
Web: www.thespecialguests.co.uk
Info: The Special Guests are a Bristol-based performance
company who undertake the research, rehearsal and performance of original devised work. We strive to create a live
show that resists being bracketed into the unstable categories of theatre, performance or live art. Instead we
intentionally transcend the boundaries of these interrelated practices.
Uninvited Guests
Web: www.uninvited-
guests.net
Info: Uninvited Guests is a UK/German company founded in
1998 and based in Bristol, England. We make innovative performance and multimedia that combines high-tech with
low tech, the visceral with the virtual. The company's collaborative work challenges the boundaries between art-
forms to produce performance for a media-saturated culture. Our projects have been shown in the UK, Germany,
Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria and Australia.
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
Joshua Sofaer
Web: www.joshuasofaer.com
Robin Deacon
Web: www.robindeacon.com
Stuart Brisley
Web: www.ordure.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.
Web: www.laribot.com
Info: Contemporary dance/performance artist.
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.
Marcia Farqhuar
Web: www.marciafarquhar.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
Anthony Howell
Web: www.anthonyhowell.org
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
Franko B
Web: www.franko-b.com
Info: Infamous body artist based in London.
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.
Helena Goldwater
Web: www.kgoldwater.freeserve.co.uk
Jon Fawcett
Web: www.jonfawcett.com
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.
FrenchMottershead
Web: www.frenchmottershead.com
Info: FrenchMottershead is a collaboration between Rebecca
French and Andrew Mottershead, exploring the details of urban and social life through live art and mixed media.
Our approach encourages participation in the creation of artworks in response to unconventional sites, to inform and
engage audiences in innovative ways.
Ronald Fraser Munro
- Artistic Director
K3 Kinder Kunst Korporation
Web: www.k3media.demon.co.uk
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
Web: www.labofii.net
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.
Adrian Heathfield
- Professor of Performance and Visual Culture
Roehampton University
Web: www.adrianheathfield.net
Info: Academic and writer specialising in live art.
Rotozaza
Web: www.rotozaza.co.uk
Info: Experimental theatre group.
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.
These Horses
Web: www.thesehorses.com
Info: These Horses is a collaborative performance company
based in London and Berlin. Our work explores the phenomenal potential of time spent in a room full of people and
the need to find comfort in an impossibly huge world.
We are still learning about our work and how to describe it, but what seems to characterise our performance is a
negotiation of awkwardness and theatricality, panic, joy and abandonment.
We use performance to explore what we cannot explain or fully comprehend.
Morecambe
Anthony Padgett
Web: www.theism.co.uk
Nottingham
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.
Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly
Web: www.hancockandkellylive.com
Info: Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly collaborate on the
research, development and production of works of live art, performance, video and installation. Their work
interrogates ideas of language, identity and desire through the inter-subjective space; resulting in the creation of
highly poetic and challenging works.
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.
Forced Entertainment
Web: www.forcedentertainment.com
Info: We are a group of six artists based in Sheffield, UK. We
make performances as well as projects in other media and contexts.
The Guardian newspaper has called us “Britain’s most brilliant experimental theatre company” which we like! Our
work varies quite a lot - from projects that are very brash and theatrical to other works that are very minimal and text-
based. In everything we do we are trying to find ways to talk about contemporary experience, and to create exciting
and intimate encounters with audiences.
Since we started in 1984 we have presented our projects in a lot of different places in the UK, all over mainland
Europe and much further afield.
Hilary Foster
- Company Manager
Third Angel
Web: www.thirdangel.co.uk
Info: Young experiemental theatre/performance group based
in Sheffield, northen England.
Alex Kelly
Third Angel
Web: www.thirdangel.co.uk
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.
- Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek
TNWK
Web: www.thingsnotworthkeeping.com
Info: TNWK’s work focusses on conversation and participation,
to produce ‘portraits of value’ (exploring tensions between the societal, the communal and the political), using a
diversity rather than a singularity of modes and media. TNWK is a collaborative authorship of poetic and visual
practices. Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek bring specialist histories in poetry, site-specific installation and situated
cultural practice; their common grounds include performance, bookworks, photography, video and curatorial
intervention. TNWK refresh conventions around portraiture, in works that nod towards the eighteenth century
conversation piece; small-scale group portraits of people sharing common activities. TNWK (an acronym drawn from
early work made as Things Not Worth Keeping) re-locate the portrait as documenting neighborhoods of the everyday,
the intersections between people, things, places and specific moments in time.
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
Ben Vautier
Web: www.ben-
vautier.com
Info: Historically important artist in the arena of Performance
Art and Fluxus.
Peter Grzybowski
Web: www.grzybowski.org
Info: Artist working with performance, multimedia and
painting.
Nicole Blackman
Web: www.nicoleblackman.com
Tehching Hsieh
Web: www.one-year-
performance.com
Adrian Piper
Web: www.adrianpiper.com
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.
Coco Fusco
Web: www.thing.net/~cocofusco/
Karen Finley
Web: www.karenfinley.net
Robert Ayers
Web: www.robertayers-
artist.com
Big Art Group
Web: www.bigartgroup.com
Info: Caden Manson/Big Art Group is a New York City
performance company founded in 1999 by Caden Manson. The company uses the language of media in a unique
narrative form. Pushing the formal boundaries of theatre and film, we create culturally transgressive and challenging
new works.
Billy Talen
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Web: www.revbilly.com
SITI Company
Web: www.siti.org
Info: The SITI Company is an ensemble-based theatre
company whose three ongoing components are the creation of new work, the training of young theatre artists, and a
commitment to international collaboration.
Wooster Group
Web: www.thewoostergroup.org
Info: The Performing Garage, a flexible black box theater, is
the permanent home of The Wooster Group. It is located at 33 Wooster Street, one block north of Canal Street and
one block east of West Broadway in SoHo, New York. The closest subway stations are the Canal Street stops of the
1&9, ACE and N&R lines.
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
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