Unsettled Matters, Falling Flight: Decolonial Protest and the Becoming-Material of an Imperial Statue

Joanna Ruth Evans is a theatre artist from South Africa. She holds a BA in Theatre and Performance from the University of Cape Town and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her research follows decolonial movement, drawing on queer, affect, and new materialist theory, black studies, and decolonial theory. Her plays have toured throughout South Africa, and to international festivals and theatres in Italy, Germany, Iran, Réunion, Hungary, and the United States. She lives in Brooklyn, where she makes work with just about anyone she can, but especially her best friend, Lua. In Fall 2018 she will begin the PhD program in Performance Studies at NYU.