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I/SPY (Doctoral output)
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Operation Trafalgar Square and National Gallery 2
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I/SPY: PERFORMANCE,POLITICITY
AND THE SURVEILLANCE TURN
Helen's doctoral research investigates four field investigations into surveillance performativity within an ideological social atmosphere of democracy, and how the associated behaviour of its citizens plays-out in and rendering a social surveillant mis en scene. It identifies, compares and theorises the perceived ocular power dynamics and associated behaviours of research-participants tasked, in coteries, with performing resistance whilst resisting performance - essentially, every day performance in public space. Helen's thesis ultimately unpacks that and how surveillance culture hails our latent sleuth.
Current Research: Acting and Neurodivergence
(in progress)
Operation Tate Modern
Operation Trafalgar Square 1
public I . private eye . private I . public eye
COLLISIONS - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
Sanctity of Hair
Venues: Institute of Contemporary Arts (2007) and RCSSD (2006)
MA Practice-as-Research in performance
C O N F E R E N C E P A P E R S
Big Data: Public I/ Private Eye 2016
Performance and New Technologies Working Group (TaPRA ) University of Bristol
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Participation: About Turn (Concerning Spect-actorship) 2012
Theme: 'The Tyranny of Participation" (TaPRA Conference) University of Kent
Award: TaPRA bursary
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PUBLIC ‘I’: Intermediality, SurVEILance and the Interactive Turn 2012
Performing Research: Creative Exchange Conference RCSSD
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Intermediality: SurVEILance and the Interactive encounter 2011
Directing and Dramaturgy working group (TaPRA Conference) Kingston University
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What Are You Looking At? Participant-Spectatorship and Thirdspace Intersubjectivity 2010
Performing Research Conference Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
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Appropriating Inappropriateness: Transgression, Discomfort and Conscience 2006
(emerging a method/ology), MA, Central School of Speech and Drama
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