Diane Thorn
Born in England in 1969, Thorn Jacobs was a highly creative child in various media, often winning prizes in contests until her early teens, when anxiety, depression and sexism took their creative toll on her evolving practice. She attended Red Deer College and then the University of Calgary, eventually earning a BFA. Jacobs' work usually emerges from internal, emotional/intuitive sources. A "visionary artist" is possibly the least offensive label to tie on the toe of her body of work. There are strong elements of humour and angst, morbidity and spirituality, childishness, sexuality and feminism evident in many of the pieces she produces. They usually depict women, bodies, toys, and/or horses.

Irene Loughlin
Irene Loughlin was born in the industrial, working class city of Hamilton, Ontario, where she spent her formative years and currently resides. She further developed her practice as an artist in the city of Vancouver, BC, Canada, particularly in the historic Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, where she contributed to the activist and disability community through participation in gallery gachet, VANDU, and the Carnegie Centre by working on human rights issues. Her performance art presentations and videos have been presented at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, ON), the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC), the Society for Disability Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC), the Deformes Festival (Santiago, Chile) and the Performance Saga Festival BONE 11 (Bern, Switzerland).

Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
Action T4 (The Asylum Is Burning) - Based on stories told to me by my grandmother, this performance recounts the suspicious fire which consumed the city mental hospital in 1940's Guatemala. This fire was rumoured to be a crude Central American adaptation of the Nazi eugenics program "Action T4", which executed thousands of psychiatric patients.

Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa (Guatemala City, 1978) is an interdisciplinary artist, working in video, installation, and performance. His work and research delves into folkloricism, sexuality, magical practises, the welfare of children in war, the experiences of refugees, and poetry. He obtained a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in 2006 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. He has performed and exhibited extensively across North and Latin America, as well as recent solo exhibitions in Casa America in Madrid and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. He lives and works in Vancouver.

Pedro Guillèn Cuevas aka Tecuani Chen (Contributing Performance Artist)
Pedro Guillèn Cuevas is an multidisciplinary artist from Veracruz, Mexico, who works in the mediums of painting, drawing, and performance art. His performance art work is inspired by the shamanic tradition of Mexico, and he works within the ritualistic tradition of performance art, with the idea of moving energy in order to promote change and healing. Guillen Cuevas make objects of spiritual power as art works in the shamanic tradition. He has created performances since 1994, and has exhibited in Mexico, Cuba and Canada. Cuevas is a past artist member of Gallery Gachet. He is currently studying an MFA at the University of Carmen, Campeche MFA (UNACAR) and has a BFA in painting and sculpture from University of Veracruz.