Recitation
a 13-hour durational performance by Raegan Truax
with sound by Derek Phillips
VCAM Create Space 006 + hav.to/recitation
Begins March 11th at Noon EST
Ends March 12th at 1am EST
The performance will occur over a consecutive 13-hours. During the 13-hours Truax will not leave the performance space.
Recitation Talkback
Friday March 12
4:00 p.m. EST
Raegan Truax will participate in a special hour-long talkback conversation with Boston-based artist Marilyn Arsem and Angela Hennessy, Oakland-based artist and Associate Professor at California College of the Arts.
RSVP for the talkback at http://hav.to/recitation
Recitation will be live-streamed online at hav.to/recitation and open to the Haverford College community for in-person viewing following COVID-19 guidelines for social distancing. Both virtual and live audiences are invited to come and go as you please.
Recitation is a cacophony of grief created from a prompt: Write a letter to someone in your life that has passed away.
Since 2019, an international array of artists, nurses, teachers, strangers, and intimates, took up Truax’s prompt to write a letter to the dead. Several creative prompts followed, until each letter was translated over time into sound, movement, statement, space, rhythm, and surprise.
Now, set amidst a global pandemic, Recitation is layered with images, objects, audio recordings and materials siphoned from years of letters, conversations, and creative exchanges. Occurring over 13-hours, the durational performance invites a suspended moment (of discord) as Truax attunes to recitations on how to grieve.
Raegan Truax is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies.