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	Paul Couillard lives in Toronto and makes performance art with forays into video, installation, and holography. He has created over 100 solo and collaborative performance works in more than a dozen countries, often working with his partner Ed Johnson. Paul has an MFA from York University and is a recognized international history as artist, curator and writer. Couillard's work addresses personal and cultural identity and explores the body as a vessel of sensation and experience. Click on image for more information on Paul Couillard.
	The National Bitter Melon Council is an artist collective that critically combines performance art with community development/activist practices. Through an investigation of the flavour of food, and bitterness in particular, the NBMC promotes an alternative basis for community and engagement. You are invited to join them in discussing 'better living through bitterness.' Click on image for more information on the NBMC.
	Naufus Figueroa lives in Toronto and makes work that looks at racial violence, exile, ghosts, childhood, and ritual. Past works include Doing Other People’s Cleaning (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba 2004), The Sun is Crooked in the Sky (FADO, Toronto 2005), Colour is Emptyness (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2005), and Fatherland (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany 2007). Naufús Figueroa is also a 2007 recipient of the Franklin Furnace Performance Art Fund. Figueroa will be performing a site specific work at Vanier Park Beach. Click on image for more information on Naufus Figueroa.
	Randy Gledhill Click on image for more information on Randy Gledhill.
	Kevin Hamilton teaches at the University of Illinois. His work has included a symposium series about Walking, and the creation of interactive artworks for gallery and public settings across Europe and North America. His scholarship includes research on methodologies of interdisciplinary collaboration, and on manifestations of “absence” in contemporary and historical telecommunication technologies. Click on image for more information on Kevin Hamilton.
	Jeff Huckleberry is a performance artist living and working in Boston. He is a member of TEST, which brings local, national and international performing artists to Boston for shows four times a year. He is also a member of the Mobius Artist Group. He is currently teaching Performance at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where he received his MFA in 2004. Huckleberry makes work that addresses the intersection of masculinity, frustration and labour. Click on image for more information on Jeff Huckleberry.
	Roddy Hunter lives in York (UK) and produces research based interventions that address the the intersection of performance art and social practices. Research interests: action art, aesthetics, architecture, audio art, 20 C. European avant-garde, contextual art, constructions of desire, erasure, ethics, ‘the everyday’ immediacy, installa(c)tion, insurrection, nomadism, non-linear spatio-temporal relations, performance art, town planning, praxis, processes of historicisation, psychogeography. He holds an MA (contemporary Arts) from Nottingham Trent University, England and is presently Head of Programme, Contemporary Fine Art Practice, York St John University, England." Click on image for more information on Roddy Hunter.
	Marilyn Arsem lives in Boston and heads the performance art program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Arsem makes work that ranges from solo performances to large-scale works incorporating installation and performance has been creating live events since 1975. She has presented work at festivals, alternative spaces, galleries, museums and universities throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America. Arsem is the founder of Mobius, Inc. Boston.Click on image for more information on Marilyn Arsem.
	iKatun is an artist-run organization that fosters public engagement in the politics of information and new practices of political engagement in everyday life. You are invited to join them in a shop-dropping expedition of their "New American Dictionary: fear/security edition." Click on image for more information on iKatun.
	Natalie Loveless Click on image for more information on Natalie Loveless.
	Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov live in Victoria and Berlin, and have dedicated their lives to art as social ecology, making works that examine the role of art practice in relation to culture and society. Morris and Trasov will be presenting a performance from, for and with their archive. Click on image for more information on the Morris/Trasov archive.
	Sal Randolph lives in New York and produces independent art projects involving gift economies and social architectures. She is the founder of Opsound and Free Words. Other recent projects include Free Press, which created an open access publishing house at Röda Sten Contemporary Art Space in Göteborg, Sweden. She is currently developing work in the areas of experiential and participatory art. Randolph will be presenting an installment of the gift-economy piece "Free Money." You are invited to make an appointment for free money at freemoney @ freemoneyrelease.com" Click on image for more information on Sal Randoph.
	Second LIVE is a co-curated online performance-intervention event produced with Jeremy Turner of The Second Front and James Morgan of Ars Virtua. The Western Front will provide the physical home for a feature screenings of online intervention performances showcasing 10 performances by artists who are exploring virtual reality as a new medium for Performance Art. Click on image for more information on Second LIVE participants.
	Artur Tajber lives in Krakow and is an intermedia and performance artist, art theorist and organizer. First performances realized in mid seventies. Keywords: KONGER, Fort Sztuki, AkCJA / ACtION programme, instalaKcja (installaCtion), Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, 10th Krakow Meetings, Free Town of Krakow, Department of Intermedia, Intermedia Course, gt gallery, Pryzmat Gallery, WALK’MAN, ORIENT-AcTION, DESOLAcTION.Tajber will be performing a piece that explores the social and physical body as both agent and object. Click on image for more information on Artur Tajber.
	Vassya Vassileva Click on image for more information on Vassya Vassileva.