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Alys Longley

alys longley (PhD) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and teacher, alys’s work exists as live performance, artist-book, installation, film, education curriculum, poetry, performance writing and lecture-demonstration. Over the last decade, alys has been exploring mistranslation studies, working

across languages and disciplines to explore the spill of ideas beyond conventional systems of meaning, through a series of international artistic-research projects in Berlin (Germany), Santiago (Chile), Coimbra (Portugal), NYC (US), Chicago (US), Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland (NZ),Poneke/ Welllington (NZ), Vienna (Austria) and Stockholm (Sweden). Her books include Let Us Drink the New Wine, Together! (2022) with Museum of Contemporary Art Santiago and The Foreign Language of Motion(2014) and

Radio Strainer (2016) with Winchester University Press’s Preface Series.Her edited books include Undisciplining Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles (2018, Cambridge Scholars Press, with Carol Brown) and Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping, Activating Imaginaries and Means of Knowing(2018, Routledge, with Nancy Duxbury and Will Garrett Petts). alys has been based in the Department of Dance Studies, University of Auckland, since 2006, where she is currently an Associate Professor.