Alex Tálamo

@alexandratalamoartist | www.alextalamo.com

Alexandra Tálamo is a contemporary artist and academic, holding a PhD in Creative Practice from UNSW Sydney (2023). She is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts in Performance Creation (2012), where she began her research into choreographically-based strategies for exploring the intersections of family memory, military mythology, and postmemory. In 2017 she was awarded the University Medal (UNSW) and 2018 she was awarded the Philip Parsons Prize (The Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies). Her performance work has been presented at Kaffee Kuchen-Action Art III (Weimar International Performance Art Festival, 2018), MCA ARTBAR (2018), Venice International Performance Art Week: Prologue I (2017), Performance Studies international (2016), and Art + Activism month at FCAC (2016). Her solo exhibition was presented at 107 Galley (2020), while collaborative and group exhibitions include the major public artwork, SEED, at The Unconformity (2021), and Learning to Love the Ocean Again After Argentina, 1976 as part of The Open Body exhibition at Scratch Art Space (2018). She has presented performance lectures for ‘The Queer Art of Feeling: Sensation, Emotion and the Body in Queer Cultures’ at Cambridge University (2019), the ‘Acts of Gathering’ and ‘Archives, Artists & Absences’ ADSA conferences (2020, 2023) and UNSW’s Seminar Series (2018). She is a current member of the Future Advisory Board for Performance Studies international and works across the unceded lands and waters of the Gadigal and Wangal of the Eora nation and the Palawa and Pakana of Lutruwita.