Orientations: Where is the Future Now?

Felipe Cervera is a Lecturer in Theatre at LASALLE College of the Arts, in Singapore. He is the Associate Editor of Global Performance Studies, member of After Performance Working Group, and co-convener of the Performance Studies Space Program.

Shawn Chua is a researcher and artist based in Singapore, where his research engages with embodied archives, uncanny personhoods and the participatory frameworks of play. He holds an MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and is a recipient of the National Arts Council’s Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate).

Yiota Demetriou is a performance practitioner, lecturer of Performance Studies and Cultural Geography and researcher in the fields of creative technologies, UX and audience participation, contested borders, women’s war stories, and oral history. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Bath Spa University (UK), where she also teaches.

Areum Jeong is a visiting researcher at the Asia Culture Research Institute in Korea. She holds a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, a MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and her work takes a transnational approach to twentieth and twenty-first-century Asian and Asian American cinema, literature, theater and performance. Her current book project examines the Sewol Ferry memorial performances and protests in South Korea and diasporic communities, and explores how art and social media are used to document, record, or remember death, loss, and memory.

Eero Laine is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the editor of the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and co-editor of Lateral (csalateral.org).

Azadeh Sharifi is a researcher, writer, and activist. Since 2016 she is a PostDoc researcher at the theatre department Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität where she is working on “(Post)migrant Theatre in German Theatre History — (Dis)Continuity of aesthetics and narratives.” From 2014 until 2015 she was a Fellow at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures,” Freie Universität Berlin.

Evelyn Wan is a researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society at Tilburg University, and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University. She graduated cum laude from her PhD programme with her dissertation, “Clocked!: Time and Biopower in the Age of Algorithms” in November 2018. Her work on the temporalities and politics of digital culture and algorithmic governance is interdisciplinary in nature, and straddles media and performance studies, gender and postcolonial theory, and legal and policy research.

Asher Warren is a Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Tasmania. His research interests include intermedial and networked performance, participatory and collaborative practices, and the sites of contemporary artistic practice. He is a member of Performance Studies international, the IFTR intermediality working group, and currently sits on the PSi Future Advisory Board. His writing has been published in Performance Paradigm, Performance Research, Australiasian Drama Studies, Refractory: Journal of Entertainment Media, and in the edited collection Performance in a Militarized Culture (2017).