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Helen Evans, Ph.D (she/her)
I/SPY: PERFORMANCE, POLITICITY
AND THE SURVEILLANCE TURN
Helen's Ph.D, I/Spy, converges practice-based-research in the Arts and Auto/Ethnography. It is positioned between flâneurie (as hailed per the lineage of Poe, Baudelaire and Benjamin – solo, undercover following and literary/photographic documentation of such), the psychogeographic, city-centric, collective method of dérive, and covert participant-observation.
Helen's supporting thesis examines four field investigations into surveillance performativity within an ideological social atmosphere of a democratic context, 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 coteries of research-participants tasked with performing resistance whilst resisting performance. This is, essentially, about undercover performance in the everyday. Her thesis ultimately argues that and how surveillance culture both reflects and hails our latent sleuth.
P R A C T I C E - B A S E D - R E S E A R C H
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