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 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/.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.