Alistair MacLennan, Boris Nieslony, Roi Vaara, and Irene Loughlin, 'Trauma and Endurance'
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.