Artist Michael Barrett

UPCOMING EVENTS
2028
Book Publication - Taylor and Francis Group, (Routledge)
Performing Thailand: Ethnography, Innovation, and the Politics of Performance Art. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.
(Currently under contract)

2026
Curatorial Invitations
Rebel Live Art, Bohemian Art Space, Co-curator. Bangkok, Thailand, December
River Resistance, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Co-curator. Bangkok, Thailand, October
Chiang Rai International Performance Art 2026: River Resistance. Chiang Rai, Thailand, Mar.

Solo Exhibition Invitations
How Will We Laugh Tomorrow? Mirror Art Space. Chiang Mai, Thailand, September

Exhibition Invitations
Between Cloud and Rain, International Behavioral Art Festival. IBAF, India. December
We Know, The Inaugural, LALM - Live Art Live Meet. Shanghai, China. November
Nan-fest, Community Art and Culture Event. Nan, Thailand. November
AsiaTopia: Action Speaks Louder Than Words. Bangkok Art and Culture Center. July/Aug

RECENT EVENTS
Editorial Board, Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance, Intellect Publishing. Feb. 2025-Current

Book Publication - Taylor and Francis Group, (Routledge)
Encountering Boris Nieslony: A Performance Art Mentor

Chapter Publication - Taylor and Francis Group, (Routledge)
50 Key Performance Artists, Ch. 33

Faculty Fellow, Texts and Critics, Honors College Spring 2025

Guinness Book of World Records, World's Largest Balaclava 2024

IX Venice International Performance Art Week,
Performance Art Narratives, Research Team, 2024

Reflections on Performance Art in the 21st Century, Guest Author.
University of Toronto, 2024

Yellowstone Art Museum, Women's Prison Ceramics Program, July, 2024

Yellowstone Art Museum, Women's Prison Ceramics Program, Sept. 2023

BANG BANG - Translocal histories of performance art
Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
June 8–August 21, 2022
Open Source Performance with PANCH and Boris Nieslony

Doctoral Research: University of Arizona, Art and Visual Culture Education
Location: Germany & Switzerland
Dissertation Title:
Boris Nieslony and His Legacy: A Case Study of a Performance Art Mentor

Artist Residency 2020
Your Mother Gallery, Singapore
Director: Jeremy Hiah

Teaching, Art history and practice
UNLV, Department of Art
Adjunct Faculty - ART 476/676 Performance and Media Art, Fall 2019
Adjunct Faculty - ART 434: Performance Art History, Spring 2019

Venice International Performance Art Week
Co-Creation Live Factory 2020, Jan. 8-18th
Dissenting Bodies Marking Time
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy

Beach Dances
Curated by Rhizomatic Arts
Encounter #54
Santa Monica, CA
Annenberg Beach House
June 23, 2019

Encounter #55
Curated by Mariel Carranza
MiM Gallery
Los Angeles, Ca
July 14, 2019

RADAR: Underground Performance Art Event
Downtown Las Vegas
Space 9Twenty
November 28th, 2018
December 9th, 2019
January 23rd, 2019

KUNST DER BEGEGNUNG °7 - ART OF ENCOUNTER °7
Hosted by PAErsche Aktionlab
Six organizations from Switzerland & Germany
October 2-10th, 2018 Bern, Switzerland
October 10-15th Hannover, Germany
October 15-19th Hildesheim, Germany
October 19-23th Burgbrohl, Germany
October 23-25th Cologne, Germany
October 26th Essen, Germany

EQUINOX - Open source
Hosted by PAErsche Aktionlab
Cologne, Germany
September 23rd, 2018

Strudel - Open Source w/ PAErsche
Kunstpavillon Burgbrohl, Germany
August 17th, 2018

Atelier: Performance # extra
DIE FAUST PERFORMT - THE FIST IS PERFORMING
Kulturzentrums Faust, Hannover, Germany
August 9th, 2018

Image: Drawing Peace, Lecture performance with University of Arizona undergraduates. USS Arizona Memorial