other activities

  • 2026 – Mandate for the Peer-to-Peer Programme within the framework of Here! Am programme at artlink.ch, Bern / CH.
  • 2025 – 2026 Mentoring Bachelor of Art «Verändere ich mich, um mich zu finden?» Schichten des Seins – Eine Annäherung an den fortlaufenden Wandel, by Helene von Graffenried. F+F School of Art and Design. Zurich / CH.
  • 2025 (((Performance on Air))). PANCH in collaboration with Lumpen Station. Speaker for live performances. Museo Casarella, Locarno / CH.
  • 2023   «Acciones al márgen. Ciclo de Performances, Debate y Pensamiento» Online Gespräch. Foro Acción. Buenos  Aires / ARG.
  • 2023 Founding of the women’s collective „Las Errantes“ (Elsbeth Carrolin Iten, Kerstin Wittenberg and Maricruz Peñaloza). Switzerland.
  • 2023 External jury for the Master of Arts degree at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). Lucern / CH.
  • 2022 Mentoring: Master Thesis. (re) cuerdo, by Sandra De los Santos. Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), Bern / CH.
  • 2022 Mentoring: Diploma work En Apesanteur / In Schwerelosigkeit, by Eulalie Svetlana Blanc. F+F Schule für Kunst und Design. Zurich / CH.
  • 2021- Broadcaster. Ni chicha ni limoná. Kanal K. Aarau / CH.
  • 2021 External jury for the Master of Arts degree at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). Lucern / CH.
  • 2020 Mentoring: Diploma work Ich Glückliche by Lea Schwegler. F+F Schule für Kunst und Design. Zurich / CH.
  • 2019- 2024 Coordination of the ACT Performance Festival of Swiss Art Academies at the F+F School of Art and Design. Zurich / CH.
  • 2019- Board member of PANCH- Performance Art Network Switzerland.
  • 2018- Editor of substanz -performance art issues– Fanzines. All the consider things about Performance Art.
  • 2018 – until now. Performance Open-Air St. Gallen. Founder and curator. Performance festival at public space. St. Gallen.
  • 2010- 2024 PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON. Founder and curator. Performance festival at public space. Zurich/ CH.

Talks / Lectures / Selection

2024 «E adesso…?» giornatta di approffondimeto de artist* e operatrici e operatoria culturale –  Introduction of PANCH- Performance Art Network CH, von Maricruz Peñaloza. La Regionale – Mostra d’arte  della Svizzera italiana. Lugano /CH (cancelled due to illness).

2023   «Acciones al márgen. Ciclo de Performances, Debate y Pensamiento» Online Gespräch. Foro Acción. Buenos  Aires / ARG.

2020 PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON -a decade of performances in public space-. Book launch and discussion with Linda Cassens Stoian, Daniel Morgenthaler and Maricruz Peñaloza. Helmhaus, Zurich (CH)

«Discurso del cuerpo y la toma del espacio público como alternativa política temporal». (The discourse  of the body and the occupation of public space as a temporary political alternative). Lecture.  International and Virtual Symposium on Cultural Management. Promoting social well-being. Juárez  Autonomous University of Tabasco, Mexico/MX.

2019 «De Ida y Vuelta: de Performance Extra a PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON» -Round trip: from Performance Extra to PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON-. A talk between curators. Artspace Galerie. Mexico City (MX)

2018  «How expensive is an artist’s work?» Artist Talk with Eduardo Briones. Association of Visual Artists.  Tapachula, Chiapas/MX

Srinagar Biennale. Cultural Hues. Curator: Parvez. Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Basel (CH)

2017 

  • «Bosquejos de la Performance en Helvetia» . Lecture at Acción!MAD17- XIV Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Acción.  With the participation of: Gisela Hochuli, Klara Schilliger, Adela Picon and Valerian Maly.  Naves Matadero, Madrid (ES)

2016   

  • Presentation and panel discussion about PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON Festival as part of «Cuerpo a Cuerpo.  4to. Encuentro de Performance, música video». Centro de Arte La Regenta. Gran Canaria (ES)

Publications

2023 Twenty Years. Building Bridges. 2003-2023. Act Performance Festival of the Swiss Academies.ISBN: 978-3-907364-09-3

2020  PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON – a decade of performance art in public space. Amsel Verlag Zürich. Editor: Maricruz Peñaloza. 247 Pages. ISBN 978-3-906325-53-8

2019  EMERGENCY INDEX: AN ANNUAL DOCUMENT OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE, VOL. 8. New York, December 2019. Ugly Duckling Presse. Editors: Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Zoe Guttenplan. ISBN-10:1946433632

2019- substanz -performance art issues- Fanzines on performance art. Editor: Maricruz Peñaloza.

2002  Currant D‘ajer. Nairs Zentrum für Gegenwart Kunst. Scuol/GR. 2002

2001 Media-made. Wie kommen wir uns nahe? Symposium PVC-Performance-Video Computer. Wie kommen wir uns nahe?. Artistic contribution. Editors:Th. Feuerstein, Gerhard Johann Lischka u.a. Kunstraum Innsbruck. Innsbruck/A. WienandMedien Verlag. ISBN 3-87909-763-1

ZEITPUNKTE. Erlach. Galerie & Edition René Steiner. Curator Bernhard Bischoff. Erlach/BE. 

Archivs

  • Archiv Die Schwarze Lade/ Black Kit. International Performance Art Archive. Köln (DE)
  • Centro de Documentacion. Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexiko City (MX)
  • SIKART, Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz. Zurich (CH)
  • Mediathek HGK FHNW. Basel (CH)

Video-Documentation / Selection

https://vimeo.com/user103172080 – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKIJWilJNLvq8HDS1G5MH4Q

Launch of substanz -performance art issues– at Volumes Independent Art Book Fair. Kunsthalle Zurich. Zurich (CH). Photo credits: Lara Buffard ©2018

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