Photo credit: Salination, durational performance by Marilyn Arsem in the DaDao Live Art Festival, Beijing, China, October 10, 2007. Photo by Tran Luong

Marilyn Arsem will teach a workshop and perform as part of the program "Invocar presencias" (Invoking Presences), directed by performance artist Alejandro Zertuche in collaboration with the Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima.  This five-day workshop for performance artists is entitled Performance as Experiment, and will take place at the Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima, in San Pedro Garza García, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, from Monday, July 8 to Friday, July 12, 2024.  The workshop participants will also give a public presentation of their work on Saturday, July 13, from 6-10 pm.  This project is supported by the San Pedro Garza García municipality.

Arsem’s performance, El don del agua (The Gift of Water), at the Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima is on Saturday, July 20, 2024 from 4:30 pm to 10:30 pm.  Situated under a young oak tree in the garden outside the cultural center, this performance is an invitation to enjoy a drink of water and share it with the oak tree. It is a gentle action, a gift of water in the heat, a chance to sit in the shade that is offered by the tree, and a moment to reflect on all living beings' need for water.