2006 Do Me!

Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England and from 1986-90 attended the Slade School of Art in London. His work has been exhibited internationally and in 2001 he won the prestigious Turner Prize.

Critical Art Ensemble is a collective of artists of various specializations dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics, and critical theory. CAE’s recent projects have focused on biotechnology, genetic engineering, germ warfare, mobile broadcasting, and other detournements of technology. Their publications, including The Electronic Disturbance, Electronic Civil Disobedience, Flesh Machine, Digital Resistance and Molecular Invasion, can be downloaded at critical-art.net.

Ann Hamilton’s compelling multi-media installations have explored the evocativeness of vernacular and unlikely materials, the performance of exacting gestures, the affective specificity of site, and the interconnections between language, the senses, time and memory. She is a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and was the American representative at the Venice Biennale (1993). Her work has been shown and collected worldwide, and appears in publications such as Tropos (1995), Present-Past (1999), Whitecloth (1999), and the upcoming An Inventory of Objects.

Geoffrey Hendricks has been active in Fluxus since the mid-1960s, when he was ordained Flux Minister. As Professor of Art at Rutgers University, where he has taught since l956, he is renowned for encouraging the exploration of intermedia and performance art. Hendricks has performed and participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide. Retrospectives of his works have been held at KunsthallenBrandts Klædefabrik (Denmark), Castelfranco (Italy), and Articule(Montreal). He is the editor of Critical Mass (2003), and his work is featured in Fluxus Codex (1988), among other publications.

Aernout Mik is an Amsterdam-based artist utilizing performance, video, installation and new media. His works engage and depict persons associated in disquieting, perplexing and ludic types of groups that examine both the psychology of collectives and the sociopolitics of individuality. Mik has held solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), Fundació la Caixa (Barcelona), Haus der Kunst (Munich), the ICA (London), and the Venice Biennale, among other locations. Publications on his work include Dispersions (2004), Reversal Room (2002), Primal Gestures/Minor Roles (2000), and Tender Habitat (2000).

Linda M. Montano is a performance artist, the founder of The Art/Life Institute, Kingston, NY, and teacher of the form in numerous universities. She has performed “living art” at museums, galleries and public sites worldwide. Her “endurances” have been numerous and she completed 14 Years of Living Art in 1998, an experience of the energy centres in the body (see www.bobsart.org). Her publications include Art in Everyday Life (1981), Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties (2000), and Letters from Linda M. Montano (2005). She has been featured at The New Museum (NY) and the Institute for Contemporary Art (London), and included in the exhibitions “Out of Actions” (LA MOCA) and “Endurance” (Exit Art). Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank.

Carolee Schneemann’s work in video, film, painting, photography, performance and installation has pioneered the artistic discourse on the body, sexuality and gender. She has exhibited and performed internationally, with film and visual art retrospectives being held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the National Film Theatre (London), among other places. Her works and writings have been collected in More than Meat Joy (1979/1997) and Imaging Her Erotics (2002). She has a solo exhibition planned for MOCCA in Spring 2007.

Joey Skaggs is a conceptual performance artist, sociopolitical satirist, and dedicated proponent of independent thinking who has, since 1966, used the media as his medium. His performances have fooled numerous journalists working in television, radio and print, drawing attention to the media’s gullibility and exposing its ideological agendas while focusing attention on issues such as disinformation, hype, hypocrisy and the misuse of power. He is the perpetrator of infamous hoaxes such as The Cathouse for Dogs, The Celebrity Sperm Bank, The Fat Squad, Portofess, and the New York Annual April Fool’s Day Parade (now entering its 22nd year), descriptions of which can be found at joeyskaggs.com.

Martha Wilson is a performance artist and Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., a museum in lower Manhattan that has presented and preserved performance art, artists’ books, multiples and Internet projects since its inception in 1976. Trained in English Literature, Wilson taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where she made pioneering experiments in video and performance. She was a member of DISBAND, an all-girl group, none of whom could play instruments, and has performed solo acts of political satire in the guises of Alexander Haig, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Tipper Gore.