Untimely Practices: A Workshop with Raegan Truax

ADMISSION: Admission is free and open to USC students only. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Tuesday, September 1, at 10 a.m. RSVP DESCRIPTION: What does daily practice look like for a durational performance artist? What’s the difference between everyday untimely behaviors and durational performance art? In this interactive workshop, durational performance artist Raegan Truax will foster and explore new ways of being untimely. What to Expect in the Workshop: No prior experience is required. Through a series of exercises drawn from Truax’s artistic practice, students will develop heightened sensory awareness, explore non-linear ways of engaging creatively and critically, develop clarity and intentionality within group processes, build reflective skills, and support interdisciplinary thinking—bridging performance, somatics, visual art, conceptual inquiry, and embodied practice. This Is One Part of a Series! This workshop is part of a month-long residency with durational performance artist Raegan Truax at ONE Archives that explores themes of power, connection, exhaustion, and embodiment. The residency will also include archival research, a durational performance, a talkback, and an exhibition at ONE Archives. Related Events: in the same place A 46-Hour Durational Performance by Raegan Truax Friday, October 23 at 1 p.m. to Sunday, October 25, at 11 a.m. ONE Archives More info and RSVP ON DURATION: A Talkback with Raegan Truax and Alexis Bard Johnson Tuesday, October 27, at 7 p.m. ONE Archives More info and RSVP Bio: Raegan Truax is a durational performance artist, scholar, and educator whose work explores time, embodiment, and queer feminist performance practices. They hold a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University and MA degrees in Performance Studies and Gender Politics from New York University. Truax is the founder of ON DURATION and executive director of Creative Body Institute. Their work has been presented internationally at venues including CounterPulse in San Francisco, Berlin Art Week, ZK/U Berlin, Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, and SOMArts in San Francisco. Their work is also featured in Marina Abramović Institute’s Immaterial Archive. They are committed to an overtly queer and feminist durational practice that challenges masochistic tropes of endurance. For them, it is a practice of risk, struggle, vulnerability, connection, presence, and possibility. @raegan.truax Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Alexis Bard Johnson (ONE Archives at the USC Libraries). Photo (middle): Giuliana Grippo Photo (right): Sara Faridamin