Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, ranging from solo performances to large-scale works incorporating installation and performance. She has presented work throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America.

In her recent performances, Arsem has focused on creating site-specific works that respond to the history or politics of the country, engaging with the immediate landscape and materiality of the location. Sites have included a former Cold War missile base in the United States, a 15th century Turkish bath in Macedonia, an aluminum factory in Argentina, a fishing harbor in Taiwan and the site of the Spanish landing in the Philippines.

Arsem is the founder of Mobius. She is a full-time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she heads the Performance Area and is a Graduate Advisor.

To see Marilyn Arsem's work, go to her website at marilynarsem.net

photo credits:

above: Dugo, 4th International Performance Art Festival, Manila, Philippines 2005, photo by Pepito A. Blasco

right: Undertow, 1st International Congress of Performance Art, Valapariso, Chile 2005, photo by Sofia De Grenade