Oraison H. Larmon is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Larmon’s research focuses on bodies, records and archives with subject expertise in contemporary performance from across the Americas. Their dissertation proposes a new archival theory of records in transition through critical examinations of performances that engage the body politics of race, gender and sexuality in archives.​ Previously, Larmon worked as an archivist at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, helping to establish a physical archive of diverse records that document embodied art practices from the United States, Canada and Latin America. They also served as an assistant curator at New York University Libraries, supporting collections development for the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library and curating exhibitions that interpreted records from the permanent collections. In collaboration with pioneering feminist artist and gallery

director Martha Wilson, Larmon is co-curator of Franklin Furnace: Performance and Politics—a digital collection featuring records from artists who confront sociopolitical issues through performance art. 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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