Mark Jeffery

Mark Jeffery has been a member of Goat Island since 1996, a collaborative international performance-group based in Chicago, whose work was shown at the 2005 Venice Biennale. His work, which incorporates performance, installation, object, text and video, is often site-investigatory/relational in its nature, reflecting a response to the context of space, time and the body and the memory it evokes. He has shown his work in numerous spaces and contexts in the UK and US. With Goat Island he has performed, taught and toured throughout the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia and the Czech Republic. 
Mark is currently an adjunct associate professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches in the Performance Department. He is also the department’s MFA Co-coordinator. He is co-founder and co-curator of two Chicago based time arts series OPENPORT and IN>TIME, both series’ missions are to promote and present new local, national and international performance, language and sound work. He holds a BA (Hons) in Visual Performance from Dartington College of Arts UK and a Junior Fellowship in Live Art from the University of the West of England and Arnolfini Live UK.