Hypatia Vourloumis is a performance theorist working across anticolonial, feminist, critical race and queer theory; Indonesian and modern Greek cultural production; philosophies of language; sound studies and popular culture. She is co-author with Sandra Ruiz of Formless Formation(forthcoming) and completing a monograph on postcolonial Indonesian paralanguage. She received her Ph.D in performance studies at NYU and lectures at DAI – Dutch Art Institute.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
In this essay, performance studies scholar Hypatia Vourloumis, discusses a political ecology of human and non-human assemblages in the sonorous materiality of anticolonial writing.