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Raegan Truax
Dr Raegan Truax is a performance artist and scholar who makes durational performances to bend, suspend and challenge assumptions about time and body. She is the founder of ON DURATION an intergenerational and international platform that supports durational artists to engage in collective creative research and public praxis. She received her Ph.D. in performance studies at Stanford University and holds an MA in performance studies (NYU) and an MA in gender politics (NYU). Truax’s recent performances include Citation performed for 37-consecutive-hours at CounterPulse (San Francisco), Stay in Place performed for 76 days at the onset of COVID-19 and Recitation a thirteen-hour performance on collective grief. She is currently finishing her manuscript Durational Performance: The Untimely Body in Performance Art since 1960 (forthcoming) and recently published ‘A period piece that endures: 28 reflections on Sloughing’ in Performance Research.
Contact: Creative Body Institute, AADK/Centro Negra, C. Castillo, 30, 30540 Blanca, Murcia, Spain.
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