Latest Writings:

My colleagues put together a volume on methods, entitled Performance Research Methods: Interdisciplinary Methods for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (2025, Open Access)

Download my chapter on “Tracing Histories: An Archaeological Approach”

 

 

 

Call and Response: Doing Dramaturgy in Community Performance “Ivy Says” | 呼．應 — 實踐構作與社區表演藝術《順藤摸路》
Essay on the dramaturgical framework behind Community Arts Project in RE: Tai Kok Tsui, in the context of urban redevelopment and creative placemaking
Download the full essay in Chinese, with an executive summary in English here

InwardOutward2023_SymposiumPublication

“On Spectrality as a Method of Care”
Essay for Inward/ Outward Symposium 2023 Proceedings on Witnessing/Care & the Archive.
Inward Outward brings together archival practitioners, artists, academics, and researchers to explore the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race.
Download the volume here

Horizontal aufgereiht hängen Karten an Haken, auf denen die Zeitpunkte des jeweiligen Tages vermerkt sind, an denen Fotos gemacht wurden. Jeder Karte entspricht ein tag für den Zeitraum vom 12 März bis 3 April 1981. Unterhalb der Karten hängen vertikal aufgereiht die korrespondierenden Fotos.

Catalogue essay for Dresden State Collection’s online exhibition “Feeling Time” (2022)

EN: 24/7 Performance – Experiencing Temporality with Tehching Hsieh
DE: Performance rund um die Uhr – Zeiterfahrung mit Tehching Hsieh

PhD Dissertation
Clocked!: Time and Biopower in the Age of Algorithms

Guest editing and Curation: Special Issues and Sections

Tijdschrift Kunstlicht (2022) – Algorhythms: Living in and out of sync with technology [Full issue download]

[Co-authored] Cervera et al. (2019). Future Now. GPS – Global Performance Studies, 2 (2).

[Co-authored] Cervera et al. (2018). Syllabi for the Future: A Playlist. GPS – Global Performance Studies, 1 (2).

Peer-reviewed chapters and articles

[co-authored] Dela Cruz et al. (2024). Everywhere, All the Time, 3:42: Collaborative Encounters with the Mundane. Performance Research, 28(4). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2023.2303704

Wan, Evelyn (2024). Cultural Genitals and the Emancipated Fembot: Performing Gender, Race, and Technology in Cyborg Theatre. In Sean Metzger & Roberta Mock (eds.), The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre. London: Bloomsbury.

Wan, Evelyn (2023). The Left-hand Click and the Left-hand Lay: Intersecting Technology and Folk Belief in Posthuman Spirituality. In Grant Hamilton & Carolyn Lau (eds.), Mapping the Posthuman. New York: Routledge.

Wan, Evelyn (2021). “I’m like a wise little person”: Notes on the metal performance of woebot the mental health chatbot. Theatre Journal, 73(3), E21-E30. https://doi.org/10.1353/TJ.2021.0068

Wan, Evelyn (2021). Laboring in Electronic and Digital Waste Infrastructures: Colonial Temporalities of Violence in Asia. International Journal of Communication, 15, 2631-2651.

Wan, E., de Groot, A., Klumbyte, G., Lücking, P., Lämmerhirt, D., Păun, M., & Jameson, S. (2020). Lost in translation: an interactive workshop mapping interdisciplinary translations for epistemic justice. In Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* ’20), January 27–30, 2020, Barcelona, Spain (pp. 692). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3375685

Wan, Evelyn (2019). Labour, mining, dispossession: on the performance of earth and the necropolitics of digital culture. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Special Issue on Reterritorializing Digital Performance from South to North, 15(3).

Wan, Evelyn (2019). Counting Down on the Train to 2046 in West Kowloon: A deep map of Hong Kong’s spectral temporalities. Hong Kong Studies.

Wan, Evelyn (2019). Docile Subjects: From theatres of automata to the machinery of 21st-century media. In Peter Eckersall & Helen Grehan (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics. New York: Routledge.

Wan, Evelyn (2018). An Encounter with Lufsig: Political Affect Meets the Nomadic Post-colonial Subject. In Rosi Braidotti, Kin Yuen Wong & Amy Kit-Sze Chan (Eds.), Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West (pp. 59-78). London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

[Co-authored] Cervera et al. (2017). Thicker States. GPS – Global Performance Studies, 1(1).

Wan, Evelyn (2015). From Her (2013) to Viv the Global Brain: Becoming Material, Unfolding Experience through Radical Empiricism and Process Philosophy. Digital Culture & Society, 1(1), pp. 165-185.