2 Gyrlz Performative Arts is an artist-run presenting group, based in Manchester, England (previously, an American 501(c)3 non-profit in Portland, Oregon). Founded in 2000, the group has presented hundreds of performers, artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers at events including the Enteractive Language Festival, Perpetuating Response, and the Identity Fuxus Forum.

Participating artists have included Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978, where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He has pioneered multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, performance photography and installation art...

, osseus labyrint, Savage Republic, Kaosmosis, Societas Insomnia, Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein is a Jewish-American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist.-Biography:Born in Neptune City, New Jersey, Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhill at Brown University . Bornstein joined the Church of Scientology but later became...

, Patrick Califia

Patrick Califia

Patrick Califia , born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas is a writer of nonfiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual trans man.-Biography:...

, Soriah, and Jean-Louis Costes

Jean-Louis Costes

Jean-Louis Costes is a noise musician, performance artist and film actor. Costes has been described as the French version of GG Allin, though unlike Allin's rudimentary brand of hardcore punk, Costes' music is largely synth-driven, relying heavily on looped beats, overmodulated vocals, and random...

. 2 Gyrlz also publishes 2GQ (2 Gyrlz Quarterly).

Co-founded by Lisa Newman and Llewyn Maire McCobb, who are also known for their performance work individually and in the gyrl grip

Gyrl grip

The gyrl grip is a performance art group established in 1998 by Llewyn Máire and Lisa Newman.Notable festivals include:*Proud to Put Out - a text-based performance series - Portland, Oregon by 2 Gyrlz*the Black Sun Gathering - Washington, USA, 2002...

, 2 Gyrlz continues the tradition of Two Girls, a Eugene, Oregon-based phenomenon formed by Lidia Yuknavitch and Devin Crowe in the 1990s. Active members have included Tiffany Lee Brown

Tiffany Lee Brown

Tiffany Lee Brown is an American writer, editor, and interdisciplinary artist. Author of A Compendium of Miniatures , she is the Executive Director of the 501c3 non-profit organization New Oregon Arts & Letters...

, George Johnson, Noah Mickens

Noah Mickens

Noah Howard Mickens is an American performance artist and showman from Portland, Oregon. He is primarily known for his contributions to vaudevillian revival and as a ringmaster and master of ceremonies for several theatrical circus troupes...

, Gregorio Acuna, and Joshua Camozzi Milligan.

The 501(c)3 non-profit organization changed its name and mission in 2009 and still operates in Portland, Oregon, independent of 2 Gyrlz. The 2GQ publication and multidisciplinary group evolved the non-profit into New Oregon Arts and Letters, publisher of Plazm (magazine)

Plazm (magazine)

Plazm magazine has been published since 1991 by a collective of designers, writers, and others in Portland, Oregon, United States. The complete catalog of Plazm magazine is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Denver Art Museum...

.