Future Now: A Forum

Kornélia Deres is a lecturer in the Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor at Károli University. Published in 2016, her first monograph examined intermedial theatre practices in Hungary, Europe, and the United States. She is also a writer with three books.

Paul Geary is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, De Montfort University and the University of Wolverhampton. His research deals with food, the senses and performance and performance philosophy (especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Slavoj Žižek). Paul is also a member of the project team for “Incubate-Propagate,” an AHRC Research Network investigating strategies for increasing the socio-economic diversity of emerging artists. https://incubate-propagate.com

Rand T. Hazou’s research and practice focuses on theatre engaging with social justice. His research on Asylum Seeker and Refugee Theatre has been published in a series of international journal articles. In Aotearoa he has led teaching and creative projects engaging with both prison and aged-care communities. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at Massey University.

Stefanie A. Jones, PhD, (“SAJ,” they/them/theirs) is a New York-based adjunct who works at the intersection of theatre studies and politico-economic critique, with a focus social transformation and legacies of racial, economic, gender, and disability justice. SAJ is also a co-editor of Lateral, csalateral.org.

Godwin Koay is an artist and art worker based in Singapore on the Malay Peninsula. Their practice melds the textual and visual in both study and presentation through digital, pigment, and print media. They draw on speculative visions towards a life in common, anticipating or proposing potentials of autonomous rupture from violent enclosures.

Through performance and critical writing mirko nikolić seeks to prefigure more just collaborations among different species and heterogeneous bodies. In recent projects, mirko has been working on counter-extractivist ontopolytics, multispecies commo/uning, performativity of vegetal touch, and unlearning of anthropocentric and capitalist survival ideologies.

Bella Poynton is a playwright and PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo. Her artisticwork has been produced by Otherworld Theatre, Quantum Dragon Theatre and Post-Industrial Productions. Recently, Bella co-organized “2019: A Stage Odyssey: A Symposiumon Science Fiction Theatre & Performance” in Toronto.

Rumen Rachev is a PhD candidate in Art and Design, at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). In 2014, he completed his research master studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in the field of media and performance studies. Rumen arrived in New Zealand in 2017 and was immediately labelled in his first performance as a “crucial European artist” by the New Zealand’s multidisciplinary performer Chris Berthelsen. Currently, Rumen isworking towards states of fluid performative uncertainties. His research profile can be foundat: https://aut.academia.edu/RumenRachev

Haerin Shin is an assistant professor of English, Asian Studies, and Cinema & Media Arts at Vanderbilt University. Shin’s research focuses on techno-ontology, digitalobjects, and issues of race and ethnicity. Shin has written on topics including posthuman spirituality, techno-Orientalism, and cyberculture, and has guest-edited Telos journal’s special issue on Korea (2018).

Lara Stevens is the author of Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2016), editor and translator of Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil (Re.press, 2016) by Hélène Cixous and co-editor of Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene (Palgrave, 2018).

Joel Tan is a Singaporean playwright and performer. Several of his plays are collected in Joel Tan: Plays Volume 1, published by Checkpoint Theatre, where he is an Associate Artist. Joel is currently based in London, pursuing the Masters in Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre London, Central St. Martins.

Alvin Tran is an artist and choreographer based in Shanghai. He has recently shown work at The Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing and Podium, Oslo.

Rita Martins Rufino Valente-Quinn (PhD) is the Producing Director of Motus Theater. She has worked with artists to bring performances to audiences in Portugal, Brazil, and the U.S. With Motus and in her research, Valente-Quinn investigates and helps to implement history-based, art, and social justice strategies to overcome colonialist inequity and marginalization.

wen yau is a cross-media artist, researcher, curator, and writer and has focused on performance/live art and social practices in the last few years. Her works often grapple with cultural difference and intimacy in public space and have been presented internationally. She worked as Researcher at Asia Art Archive (2005-2012) and conducted several research projects, including the first-ever “Hong Kong Performance Art Research” (2005-06), “A Glimpse into Performance Art in Indonesia” (2010), and organized the “Action Script: Symposium on Performance Art Practice and Documentation in Asia” (2010). She obtained an PhD at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, with her thesis titled “Performing Identities: Performative Practices in post-Handover Hong Kong Art and Activism.” In 2015-2016, she served as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Performance Studies Department at the Northwestern University, USA. She also contributes frequently to various periodicals in Hong Kong and Asia. www.wenyau.net

Marcus Yee is an artist and writer based in Singapore and Hong Kong. He is affiliated with the entanglement, soft/WALL/studs. He writes regularly for Arts Equator and ArtAsiaPacific, and has contributed writings to the Asian Film Archive, Singapore International Festival of Arts, and The Substation. At the moment, he is learning the Balinese gamelan, drums, and marimba.

Soo Ryon Yoon is Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where she teaches performance theories, dance history, and racial politics in the Korean and East Asian context. She is currently working on a monograph exploring choreographic articulations of Koreanness and blackness in the global Afro-Asian relations.