Oraison H. Larmon is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Larmon’s research centers around bodies, records and archives with specific focus on 20th century performance art in the Americas. Their dissertation introduces a new records concept through interdisciplinary research on visual artists who create performances that address the archival body politics of race, gender and sexuality. Larmon was recently the recipient of a dissertation year fellowship and was nominated for a distinguished teaching award at UCLA. 

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Previously, Larmon worked as an archivist processing records of performance art at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. They also served as an assistant curator at New York University Libraries, assisting with the appraisal and the preservation of collections in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library. With pioneering feminist visual artist Martha Wilson, they are co-curator of Franklin Furnace: Performance and Politics—an online collection that includes records from artists who confront social-political issues through embodied practices. Larmon is currently writing a journal article on Julie Tolentino's THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME and is editor of Franklin Furnace: Performance and Politics (HemiPress).

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