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.