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Radical Elders: Transgenerational Performance Knowledges is a three year project of transnational artistic residencies and workshops. Co-creation, performative exchange and relational aesthetics aim to create transgenerational works as a practical dialogue sharing and contesting knowledges.

Research includes embodied conversations and storytelling as co-creative performance art actions between elder, researcher, students and community. Each method from one elder artist is woven by the researcher into the next, forming a chain between all the participants. Tensions arise between artists' lives and their geographies, questioning performance art methods and futures. The artistic results will include diverse performative elements: podcasts, photo performances, living artifacts or props, costumes, prose, performance actions. The project concludes by curating a pedagogical handbook and a final exhibition of the chain of practices.

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The key questions that the Radical Elders project will promote are:

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• How can artistic research in performance art transmit, question and share artistic legacies?

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• What strategies contest the generational and cultural isolation between performance artists of newer and older generations?

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• How can performance knowledges from different geographies, indigenous and otherwise, coexist and co-create across bodies, materials and spaces?