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meLê yamomo

meLê yamomo was born in Manila and now lives in Amsterdam and Berlin. He is a theatre maker, composer, and sound scholar. He is also assistant Professor of Theatre, Performance and Sound Studies at the University of Amsterdam and author of the book “Sounding Modernities.”

He is the project leader and principal investigator of the European Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage (JPICH) project Decolonizing Southeast Asian Archives (DeCoSEAS), and the Netherlands Research Organization (NWO) project “Sonic Entanglements.” meLê is also resident artist at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse where his productions are on repertoire. In his work as an artist and researcher, yamomo explores the themes of sonic migration, queer aesthetics and post/decolonial acoustic epistemologies.

In August 2023 he was the curatorial director of the Bauhaus.Listening.Workshop in Manila as part of the project “Listening to the world - 100 years of radio.”

Art & Spatial Praxis – Video of the launch of the publication of Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024, hosted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Performances and talks by: meLê yamomo, S*an D. Henry Smith, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Derica Shields, Patricia de Vries, Liza Prins and Maisa Imamović.

Art & Spatial Praxis – The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th. Hosted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie with performances and talks by: meLê yamomo, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Derica Shields, Patricia de Vries, Liza Prins and Maisa Imamović and a communal dinner with Lina Bravo Mora and Mayıs Rukel of Radical Roots.

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Join us for an afternoon with talks, performances, bites and drinks

Art & Spatial Praxis – We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the publication of Plot(ting) on April 17th from 14:30 to 19:00, hosted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Fedlev Building, Room FL101.