The final Sunday panel at grunt gallery of LIVE 2003, Trauma and Endurance engaged panelists and the audience in a discussion of laden performance: durational works addressing heavy topics, and their effect on perfomers. MacLennan, Nieslony, and Vaara are all members of Black Market International, a loosely organized performance art collective founded by Nieslony and others in 1985 with the aim of enacting an open exchange of ideas via the art of encounter.