ON DURATION: A Talkback with Raegan Truax and Alexis Bard Johnson

Event details Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM Location: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries - 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Cost: Admission is free and open to everyone. Type: Arts, Lecture / Talk / Workshop, Student Life Campus: University Park Campus Department: Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event ADMISSION: Admission is free and open to everyone. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Tuesday, September 1, at 10 a.m. RSVP DESCRIPTION: Go behind the scenes of Raegan Truax’s 46-hour durational performance in the same place in a conversation with Truax and ONE Archives curator Alexis Bard Johnson. They will discuss the ideas, research, and preparation behind the work, including Truax’s commitment to a queer feminist performance practice that emphasizes risk, vulnerability, connection, and possibility. The conversation will conclude with an audience Q&A, giving attendees the chance to engage directly with the artist and continue exploring questions raised by the work. This Is One Part of a Series! This talkback 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 student workshop, a durational performance, and an exhibition at ONE Archives. Related Events: Untimely Practices: A Workshop with Raegan Truax Wednesday, October 14, 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. ONE Archives More info and RSVP 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 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). Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/on-duration