Alexandra Tálamo (she/her) is a contemporary artist and academic living across the unceded lands and waters of the Gadigal and Wangal of the Eora nation and the Palawa and Pakana of Lutruwita. She holds a PhD in Creative Practice (UNSW, 2023) and is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Performance Creation, 2012), where she began her research into choreographically-based strategies exploring family memory, postmemory and military mythologies. She was awarded the University Medal (UNSW) in 2017 and the Philip Parsons Prize (The Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies) in 2018. Her performance work has been presented at Kaffee Kuchen-Action Art III (Weimar International Performance Art Festival, 2018), Museum of Contemporary Art (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), and her major public artwork, SEED, a large-scale installation collaborating with four interstate artists, was presented at The Unconformity (2021). She has presented performance lectures for ‘The Queer Art of Feeling: Sensation, Emotion and the Body in Queer Cultures’ at Cambridge University (2019), ADSA (2020, 2023), PSi (2024), UNSW’s Seminar Series (2018) and AIRspace Projects. Her publications have featured in Performance Paradigm, Performance Research, and Q1 journal, Convergence and she has a forthcoming co-authored book on creative pedagogies called How to Play in Slow Time: creativity, pedagogy, process, (BRILL, 2025).