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Jeff Huckleberry
Faith Johnson
Gustavo Alvarez
Travis McCoy Fuller
Marilyn Arsem
Jamie McMurry

Gustavo Alvarez Lugo, also known as his alter ego Musgus, was born in Mexico City and now lives in Chihuahua. He began his exploits in performance art in 2000, making performances in urban areas, and then participated in several circuits and festivals, including Performagia, a national festival of performance, and Festival Xcéntrico in Mexico City, and the International Performance Congress at Valparaiso, Chile.

Alvarez’ interest in performance art involves teaching performance to groups outside the artist community; giving workshops to blind people, working with persons confined to mental hospitals, HIV carriers, terminal cancer patients and prisoners. He states, “I prefer to perform outdoors as a form – to take the performance art outside the museum or gallery, demonstrating that it can exist beyond walls; creating with this the possibility of interacting with the common passer-by, causing ‘the unsuspected spectator.’ This way the piece turns out to be a provocative act, in which nobody knows what to wish for, a sense of expectancy between performer and spectator exists, and a knot of co-dependency is produced that can take the work to its limits.