Hypatia Vourloumis

Hypatia Vourloumis received her Ph.D in performance studies at NYU. She researches anticolonial practice and theory, critical art, poetics, sound and performance, and the politics of language with a focus on Indonesia. Publications include academic and experimental writing in journals such as Women & Performance, Theatre Journal, Performance Research, ephemera, and Feministiqa. She is co-editor of Performance Research Journal’s issue “On Institutions,” contributes chapters for numerous edited volumes, and frequently writes cultural criticism for art books and exhibition catalogues. She is co-author of two books with Sandra Ruiz: Formless Formation (Minor Compositions, 2021) and The Alleys (NP, 2024). Hypatia’s trajectory has largely been focused on collaboration with other theorists, writers, artists, students, activists, cooperatives, and communities, exploring questions and practices of aesthetics and politics, autonomous organizing, resource redistribution, and alternative infrastructure building.

 

 

Hypatia@DAI:

2024-2025 The Weapon of Theory

2023-2024 Anticolonial Acts

2022-2023 On Not S(t)aying the Same

2021-2022 (non)Performance & (non)Performativity: Archives, Experiments, Stakes

2020-2021 Writing Sound/Sound Writing: Resonating Materialities II

2019-2020 Sound (un)Bound: Resonating Materialities

2018-2019  Xenogenesis: Critical Theory and Science Fiction

2017-2018  Paraontology and the Contemporary

2016 Art, Struggle, and the City: Athens and Istanbul ~ ROAMING ASSEMBLY #7 curated by Hypatia Vourloumis

2016  intraACTION transCOLONIALISM ~ ROAMING ASSEMBLY #6  ~ co-curated between Mirwan Andan and Hypatia Vourloumis