Ron Athey is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally. Athey's work explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality and traumatic experience. Many of his works include aspects of S&M in order to confront preconceived ideas about the body in relation to masculinity and religious iconography.
Midori (美登里) is a sexologist, educator, author, artist, speaker, and coach. Midori wrote the first English language book with instruction on Japanese rope bondage and continues to write on alternative sexual practices, including BDSM and sexual fetishism, bondage, erotic fiction, and more. She teaches classes, presents at conferences, coaches individuals and professionals, and facilitates in-depth weekend intensives. She is based in San Francisco, California.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His fifteen books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts, photographs and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish. He is a founding member of the pioneering art collective Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (1985-1992) and artistic director of the performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra.
Hilda Paredes is one of Mexico's leading contemporary composers, and has received many prestigious awards for her work. She currently resides in London, and is married to the noted English violinist, Irvine Arditti.
Martha Batiz Zuk is a Mexican-Canadian writer, who was born and raised in Mexico City, but has been living in Toronto since 2003. She started publishing in 1993 at age 22.
Sergio Vela is a Mexican-American opera director, designer, radio and television host, musician, lawyer and academician.
Susana Rodríguez is a Mexican visual artist who has had a number of solo exhibitions and has participated in various group exhibitions. Her work often consists of installations.
Pancho López is a performance artist interested in the everyday life and feelings of the human nature, and how it connects with artistic expressions. He is the founder and current director of the Extra! International Performance Art Festival. His work has been presented in China, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain, Poland, Germany, Cuba, Brasil, Canada, the United States and Portugal.
Mónica Mayer is a feminist Mexican artist, activist, and art critic whose work includes performance, digital graphics, drawing, photography and art theory. As a conceptual artist, curator, art critic and art theorist she has been engaged in various forums and groups, and has organized workshops and collective movements. From 1988 to 2008, she was a columnist for Mexican newspaper, El Universal. She continues writing for various blogs.
Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) is a non-profit exhibition and performance space located in Los Angeles's Chinatown dedicated to supporting interdisciplinary, performative and experimental art practices.
Rocio Caballero is a Mexican figurative painter, whose works often depict mythical worlds and are noted for her use of symbolism. Her work has been exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico, the United States, South America and Europe and can be found in collections such as that of the National Museum of Mexican Art. Her work has been recognized with membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Noemí Ramírez is a Mexican visual artist, whose work has been recognized with several honors including membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Julieta Aranda is a conceptual artist that lives and works in Berlin and New York City. She received a BFA in filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts (2001) and an MFA from Columbia University (2006), both in New York. Her explorations span installation, video, and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making.
Valerie Campos is a Mexican artist. She spent her early years in Los Angeles (California) with street art and lowbrow as some of her first visual influences. Self-taught, she began painting at the age of 22 and moved to Oaxaca (Mexico), internationally known as the city of the Mexican painters.
Xandra Ibarra, who has sometimes worked under the alias of La Chica Boom, is a performance artist, activist, and educator. Ibarra works across video, sculpture and performance. She is based in Oakland, California.
Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen were a husband-and-wife team of American sexologists, mainly active in the 1960s and 1970s. They wrote a number of books on sexuality and eroticism, and they also amassed a collection of erotic art, which traveled around Europe in 1968 as the "First International Exhibition of Erotic Art" and then found a home in San Francisco as the Museum of Erotic Art (1970-1973).
Nahum is an artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, performer and artistic director who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work combines outer space technologies, illusionism, and hypnosis to create alternative and extreme perspectives of human experience.
Silvia Gruner is a Mexican artist born to a family of Jewish Holocaust survivors.
Daniela Edburg is a Mexican American visual artist who creates photo-based works in which she often incorporates textile elements.
Dora Juárez Kiczkovsky is a Mexican singer and filmmaker of Argentinian Jewish origin.
