Anais Adair
David Boylan
Sarah Cronin
Travis McCoy Fuller
Julia Handschuh
Helen Pfann
Christopher Rand
Paul Waddell

Action Pact
Curated by Marilyn Arsem and Juniper Perlis

EVENT: January 21 2005 7-10pm
EVENT: January 22 2005 6-9pm

Two evenings of durational and timed performances motivated to delight, confuse, inspire and activate awareness, the artists promise to shift the expectations of the audience.

This new work crosses boundaries between media and materials, and between artist and audience. This program presents the work of Marilyn Arsem's Performance Projects class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Now in their final year, this group of advanced students has worked extensively with Arsem, as well as faculty Mari Novotny-Jones and Jamie McMurry. They are already active locally and internationally, having performed at Mobius and Oni Gallery in Boston and Evos Arts in Lowell, as well as at the Navinki International Performance Festival in Minsk, Belarus. They helped produce Boston's Corporeal Heat International Performance Festival in 2004. Several are the founders of Boston's new quarterly performance series TesT, in which they have all performed. TesT is now in its third year, with upcoming shows at Mass. College of Art.

The Performance Area of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston encourages students to present their work beyond the classroom, and to expand their experience of the world of performance art into the international realm. They are expected to be pro-active in working as artists, curators and producers, in order to create contexts that facilitate the public's exposure to and understanding of live art. Faculty in SMFA's Performance Area have extensive experience nationally and internationally, presenting work in festivals, galleries, alternative spaces, universities and museums in South America, Europe, and Asia.