Enjoy a Saturday of world-class, unrehearsed and family-friendly performance art at City Academy,
555 E 200 S
Curated by Kristina Lenzi
Photographed by Winston Inoway
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Performance Descriptions
Marilyn Arsem “Teach Me!”
Tell me, show me, teach me something that you know. Audience members (one at a time) are invited to be my teacher, and I will be the sole student in the classroom. Sign up to instruct me about something that you know well. Demonstrations, skills-training, or lectures are welcome. You can even give me a test, and a grade!
Gustaf Broms “Chop Water, Carry Wood”
Being in a time and place, where identification with the thin membrane of skin, as container of self, slowly dissolves, as borders between beings evaporate, the environment disintegrates into a myriad of sentient beings. There is no there there!
Sam Forlenza “Chance Poetry”
Based on surrealist traditions, Chance poetry, also known as aleatory poetry, will be spontaneously created through the blind selection of words or phrases from my previously written work. In preparation for this performance, I will cut up text of my poems into fragments which will then be the basis for these never-before-seen pieces. New poetry will be instantly generated by the unplanned and random choices of myself or the audience.
Jeff Huckleberry “Lies I Tell Myself”
(Description coming soon!)
Dawn Oughton “You Talk Funny”
How did you learn to speak?
Paul Reynolds “Timelines”
Approaching the pace of a stationary painting.
Preach R Sun “WOKE”
A pop-up course collaging Amerikkka’s history of fracture. The black and white, a subject subjected.
Eugene Tachinni “Concentric”
Eugene will use elements from the earth to create concentric circles. In different, and in similar ways, we all share and use a common center.
Sadly, Paul Reynolds passed away on March 15th. Please join us in honoring his memory by slowly and silently walking his structure, remembering him.
In preparation for the 11th Annual Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival, join us at the Salt Lake City Public Library on Tuesday, April 2nd at 6pm for an exciting and informative discussion on Performance Art by Marilyn Arsem.
Educators can sign up at the event to receive 2 MIDAS points for relicensure!
Curator & Photographer
Kristina Lenzi
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Kristina Lenzi is a curator, painter, and performance artist. She actively curates the yearly international Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival that she founded in 2013. She has exhibited in the United States and Europe. Lenzi lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Winston Inoway
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Photographer Winston Inoway has made images at the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival since 2015. A collection of his PAF images was exhibited during the 2019 Festival. He is pleased to share images of the performances for the enjoyment of the artists and viewers.
Performers
Marilyn Arsem
Boston, MA, USA
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, performance artist Marilyn Arsem has been creating and performing live events for more than forty years and has presented her work in thirty countries around the globe. Arsem taught performance art for 27 years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and currently teaches performance art workshops internationally. In 1975 Arsem founded an artist collaborative for experimentation, now known as Mobius Artists Group. A book on her work, Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem, edited by Jennie Klein and Natalie Loveless, was published in 2020 by Intellect Books of the UK. Her website is http://marilynarsem.net.
Gustaf Broms
Sweden
Gustaf Broms is a Swedish artist living and working in the Vendel forest, Uppland. He often works in the borderlands between performance, video and installation. He is engaged with concepts of being and the nature of consciousness, in the gap where the biological processes of the body are contrasted against the intellect’s ability to interpret experience. Through his practices, he investigates a language that transcends these cracks between the dualism body and mind, as well as between the self and the environment. His website is https://orgchaosmik.org/.
Sam Forlenza
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
A retired clinical psychologist, Sam Forlenza is also a poet, painter, performance artist, and book artist. In addition to his clinical doctorate, he has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rutgers, where he studied with Happenings Artist, Al Hansen. Originally from the New York metropolitan area, he is currently based in Salt Lake City.
Jeff Huckleberry
Boston, MA, USA
As a werewolf, I’ve roamed the forests under the glow of the full moon, but nothing prepared me for the enigmatic aura of Jeff Huckleberry. His performances are like the wild dance of the pack under the silver light, untamed and primal. Jeff’s artistry transcends human limitations, weaving a tapestry of raw emotion and instinct. From the depths of his soul, he howls his truth to the world, each brushstroke and movement an expression of his inner beast. His biography reads like the ancient tales of our kind, marked by a relentless pursuit of authenticity and a refusal to be confined by societal norms. Jeff Huckleberry embodies the spirit of the wild, captivating audiences with his untamed creativity and unbridled passion.
Dawn Oughton
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Dawn Oughton holds a BFA in fine art from the University of Utah. She has taken performance art workshops from Marilyn Arsem. She has been performing since 2015.
Paul Reynolds
Centerville, UT, USA
Paul Reynolds is a visual and performance artist, living in Centerville, Utah, who has exhibited his work since 1980. His paintings can be seen at Modern West Fine Art, online and in person, and his performances you’ll have to catch live. He has worked for 19 years at the Salt Lake City Public Library, where he coordinated the SLC Performance Art Festival for its first 10 years, and has co-curated the 12 Minutes Max program for the past 10.
Preach R Sun
US-Based
I am Preach R Sun — the Activation(ist). My praxis of activating a unitive collective consciousness or sole awakening through processes of self-emancipatory activity, is OneMan (The Liberation Project).
Eugene Tachinni
New Mexico, USA
Eugene Tachinni was born in Shiprock New Mexico. He received his education and training in Utah. He moved back to New Mexico to the four corners area and now has two dogs. He Is an artist, educator, uncle, brother, and a son.
Where to find us
This year’s Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival, curated by Kristina Lenzi, will be held at City Academy – a tuition-free public charter school since 2000, serving students in grades 7-12.
Address:
555 E 200 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Email:
kristinalenzi@msn.com