12 Minutes Max

Local artists perform or present short works in a variety of media, including music, dance, film, and spoken word. Held the third Sunday of each month.

Jacob Porter’s BATTERY is a high-energy solo drum set and electronics project at the intersection of jazz, electronic music, and world percussion. Drum triggers allow Jacob to simultaneously play deep and generative synth textures and chords while playing drums. The music elaborates on simple song forms, including jazz standards and video game music, to create complex rhythms over a bed of electronically synthesized sounds. BATTERY explores the boundaries between human and machine through improvisation and the organic qualities of the drum. Jacob will be premiering new works for solo drum set and electronics.

CAULDRON is an international film and video festival based in Salt Lake City that is dedicated to challenging and innovative motion-picture works in any genre or format. Unorthodox film narratives, rogue documentaries, avant-garde cinema, video mashups, abstract video art, genre-bending storytelling... accepting all categories with an eye towards innovation, iconoclasm, personal visions, and any/all unique motion picture experiences. CAULDRON is a swirling brew of styles and forms selected from all over the world, that aims to become a premier destination for radical cinema forms. They will be highlighting selections from the Cauldron Film Festival, which runs May 6-9 in the Main Library Auditorium.

Dressed fabulously, Kristina Lenzi and Sam Forlenza will perform an art piece in anticipation of the 12th Annual Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival. Together, Kristina and Sam are organizing this year’s Festival.

12th Annual Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival
- Where: Sugar House Monument Plaza (2100 South 1100 East)
- When: Friday, May 8, 2026; 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday, May 9, 2026; 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The Festival is appropriate for all ages. Please see complete schedule of events at kristinalenzi.com/slcpaf.

Curator’s Statement about the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival:
Performance art is a visual art form wherein the artist is the art and the artist does real things in real time and real space. Works are not scripted or rehearsed, but come out of a concept, intent or idea, and are done for the first time when they are performed. Audience and artist share an experience in this art form therefore, audience and artist are of equal importance in performance art. Some performances are short and some are of long duration, some involve big groups of people and some involve only one audience member at a time, some are audience interactive and some art not. Sometimes the artist speaks and at other times the artist is silent. Performance art carries a wide range of concepts, and however a witness interprets the art is correct – there is not a single, right answer, so in this respect, it is much like abstract painting or sculpture.
-Kristina Lenzi, Festival Curator

Kristina Lenzi is the founder and curator of the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival. She is a painter and a performance artist. Her work has been exhibited/performed throughout the USA and in Europe. Lenzi teaches visual art at Weber State University.

Sam Forlenza is a multidisciplinary artist: visual artist, book artist, performance artist, poet and retired psychologist. He organizes the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival with Kristina Lenzi. Sam has worked in University collections and he has a studio in Sugar House.

12 Minutes Max is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and colleague Paul Reynolds: artist, librarian, and patron of the arts. The 12 Minutes Max program is a curated monthly performance series featuring experimental short works by local artists in many different disciplines, including dance, music, film, and more. Each piece is followed by a Q&A with the artist. 12MM is modeled after the program originated by On the Boards in Seattle.