PerfoREDmx (Red Mexicana de Performance) is a self-managed and non-profit organization that seeks to build exchange bridges between artists, contributing to research, dissemination and dialogue on performance art in Mexico. The Network is made up of independent performance festivals in Mexico. These festivals are EXTRA! (Mexico City), CORPÓREA (Zacatecas), HORASperdidas (Monterrey), LPG - LABORATORY OF PERFORMANCE AND GENDER (Querétaro) and Encuentro de Arte y Performance - ENAPE (Pachuca). perfoREDmx is a collective of artists who coordinate and generate actions together and individually.

http://www.perforedmx.com/ 

Pancho López is a performance artista interested in the everyday life and feelings of human nature and how it connects with artistic expressions. He studied Communication Sciences at Facultad de Ciencias Políticas at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico.

He is the founder and current director of the International Performance Art Festival Extra! For 11 years he was head of the Department of Performance and Contemporary Art at Museo Universitario del Chopo. He coordinated Performagia International Performance Festival (2003 – 2009).

Pancho Lopez’s most important series of performance is “Picnic Formal”, presented since 1997 until 2007 in Mexico, United States and Canada; “Sal de Mesa” (Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay and Dominican Republic); and “Ira”, (Mexico, China, Canada and Poland). He was a journalist for 5 years in the Crónica de Hoy newspaper (Culture section). He worked as coordinator of cultural projects in 2012-2013 for the UNAM Foundation.

Recently, he received grants from the Multimedia Center and the Jumex Foundation to investigate video performance in Latin-America. He was invited by the Costa Rican Contemporary Art Museum to write The book of Performance in Central America. Currently he collaborates with La Neomudejar Museum in Madrid, Spain, and is the curator for the auction 2021 of the Contemporary Art Museum of Panamá.

She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) which is the public college in the northern state. She also obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. from Centro de Investigación de Artes y Humanidades de Monterrey (CICAHM - Monterrey Arts and Humanities Research Center).

She is a full-time professor at Fine Art Bachelor at UANL, she is the leader of the academic research body "Art and Visuality" whose investigations are based on the analysis and re-signification of public space. As an artist, her work is interested on the relationship of aesthetic studies around the body and public space in performance, painting and installation art.

She has shown her work in Monterrey and other Mexican states; collectively in countries such as Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, the USA, Brazil, Colombia, Germany and Spain. She has carried out performance projects in alternative galleries with emerging artists and has collaborated in various cinematographic projects, she has been a fellow of different artistic organizations, public and private such as: CONARTE, PADID, CONACULTA, SECRETARY OF EDUCATION and SIMA FOUNDATION.

Ariadna Isis Pérez Márquez is a visual artist, researcher, teacher and independent cultural manager. She obtained a bachelor degree in Fine Art from Escuela Estatal de Artes Plásticas in San Luis Potosí, Mexico; then a Master´s degree in Philosophy and History of Ideas from Universidad Autómoma de Zacatecas and is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Philosophy and History of Ideas at the same institution. She directs [R.A.T.] Puerto Zacatecas: artist residency program and founded in 2015 Festival Internacional de Performance Corpórea.

She was beneficiary of the stimulus for young creators from Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes in her natal Zacatecas in the 2005-2006 and 2002-2003 emissions. Her research revolves around dissident pedagogies, conceptual and non-object art, as well as action art. Her work focuses mainly on the non-object and has been shown since 1998 in museums, galleries and open spaces in San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Nuevo León, Jalisco and Mexico City. Outside Mexico, she has participated in festivals in Guatemala. In 2019, he participated in the FEM Festival in Madremanya in Catalonia, and did a residency at Bòlit, Center d’Art Contemporani de Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

She obtained a bachelor’s degree on Fine Arts from Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ). Then a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Academia de San Carlos that belongs to UNAM, the most important university in Mexico; and PhD in Arts from Universidad Autónoma de Guanajuato and was awarded a post-doctorate degree from Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. She took on research on performance, gender and post-porn at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), in Spain. She is also a professor of art, gender and performance at the Fine Art School at UAQ. She is a visual artist, painter, feminist and performance artist, with individual and collective national and international exhibitions. She has participated in artistic residencies and academic programs in Spain, Cuba, New York, Argentina, Costa Rica, Canada, Colombia and Nicaragua. She has received several national painting awards and recognitions, and has participated in artistic exhibitions inside and outside Mexico, her research has been published in several books and specialized magazines on artistic, feminist, performance and gender issues in Mexico and abroad. She currently coordinates the Bernardo Quintana Art Center.

Laura Lubozac is a cultural manager, vice president of Revolver Azul cultural organization.

Performer, activist, singer and dancer. She has organized local festivals such as Arte vs Balas 2014, Calle sin Acoso Pachuca 2014, and five issues of the Pachuca Encuentro de Arte y Performance, in conjunction with Revolver Azul. She is a producer and creative collaborator of the artistic company La Horda de los Niños Cuervo. She is an activist on feminist issues, conscious menstruation and female sexuality. She has dictated more than 200 talks, workshops and monologues on the matter since 2011. She is a current member of the Baron Samedi cultural forum.

* Spring 2021 Schedule for Grace Exhibition Space – Online world event

Friday, March 12 @ 11pm EST / Saturday, March 13 @ 11am ICT Bandung
[Bandung, Indonesia] Asbestos Art Space – Featuring live performances by W. Christiawan, Mimi Fadmi, and Dylan Christiawan.

Thursday, March 18 @ 1pm EST / 7pm GMT
[Belfast, North Ireland] BBeyond – Brian/Sandra - Featuring live international performances by Alastair MacLennan, Brian Patterson, Elaine McGinn, Eleni Kolliopoulou, James King, Keike Twisselmann, myself Sandra Corrigan Breathnach, Sarah Riseborough, Sinéad Breathnach Cashell

Friday, March 26 @ time TBA
[Burma] BEYOND PRESSURE 

Friday, April 2 @ 7:00 pm EST NY
[New York, USA] Theresa Byrnes - Live performance from Grace Exhibition Space, NYC

Friday, April 9
[Santiago, Chile] PerfoLink – Organized by Alexander DelRey

Friday, April 16
[Bangkok, Thailand] AsiaTopia – Founded by Chumpon Apisuk

Friday, April 23
[Mexico] !LIVE! - Organized by Pancho Lopez

Saturday, May 1

[Victoria Island, Canada] OPEN ACTION – Organized by Grace Salez and John Boehme

Friday, May 7
[Buenos Aires, Argentina] UV Estudios - Organized by Violeta Mansilla

Friday, May 14
[Buenos Aires, Argentina] Argentina Performance Art - Natacha Voliakovsky

Friday, May21
[Seoul, South Korea] Performance Art Network Asia - Organized by Jaeson Moon

Saturday, May 28
[Kingston, USA] Rosekill Farm – Organized by Jill McDermid, Jaguar Mary X, Valerie Sharp, Jana Astinov, Lital Dotan, Kate Hamberger