Videogram 129: meLê yamomo, 29 Nov 2023 19:00 (on-line via Zoom)

Videogram 129: meLê yamomo
29. 11. 2023, 19:00 CET, online
Zoom: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/91535663768
Meeting ID: 915 3566 3768
Info: https://videogram.favu.vut.cz/meleyamomo

"... and when I speak, my brown skin and the entire ecology vibrate."

What bridges the gap between theory and aesthetics? Between situatedness and migration? Between sounding and listening, performing and perception, the Universal Self and the Colonial Other? What insights are gained by imagining beyond the social constructs of racial, national, cultural, gender, or disciplinary borders and boundaries? What knowledge arises from the act of hearing? How can the processes of sounding and listening lead us towards a post-migrant society? In this artist talk, meLê yamomo discusses his life story and philosophy as an artist-scholar who navigates between continents, cultures, artistic practices, and academic disciplines.

meLê yamomo serves as an Assistant Professor of New Dramaturgies, Media Cultures, Artistic Research, and Decoloniality. He authored "Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He co-leads and is the principal investigator of the European Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage (JPICH) project "Decolonizing Southeast Asian Archives" (DeCoSEAS). He was awarded the »Veni Innovation Grant« (2017-2022) by the Dutch Research Organization (NWO) for his project "Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Southeast Asian Sound Recordings" (2017-2022). meLê is the recipient of the Open Ear Award, the Netherlands' most prestigious composer’s prize, and a 2020 KNAW Early Career Award from the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently a member of the Amsterdam Young Academy. As a resident artist at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, his creations including Echoing Europe, sonus, and Forces of Overtones are featured in their repertoire. meLê also curates the Decolonial Frequences Festival and hosts the Sonic Entanglements podcast. His works as an artist-scholar focus on sonic migrations, queer aesthetics, and post/de-colonial acoustemologies. https://site.meleyamomo.com

Author doc. MgA. Filip Cenek
Published
Short URL https://www.favu.vut.cz/en//f26745/d249449

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