Alastair MacLennan (born 1943 in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland) is one of Britain's major practitioners of live art.
[1] He studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design of the University of Dundee in 1960-65.
He retired from his professorship in 2008 and continues as emeritus professor for fine art, University of Ulster.
During the 1970s and 1980s he made some long, non-stop performances in Britain, America and Canada, of up to 144 hours duration.
In recent years he has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, North America and Canada, presenting Actuations (performance/installations).
She is an artist from Northern Ireland working in areas of site-responsive performance that like MacLennan explores creative responses in the aftermath of trauma, such as, acts of commemoration that exist as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter.
Johnston is the ‘Ré Soupault’ Guest Professor at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, and Course Leader of the BxNU MFA at Northumbria University, England, and is also a co-founder of two artist-run collectives in Belfast, Catalyst Arts & BBeyond.