Festival 2020
Artists
meLê yamomo is based in Amsterdam and Berlin, studying, teaching, and creating performance/theatre and sound/music. He is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Performance, and Sound Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Sounding Modernities: Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
yamomo is laureate of the "Veni Innovation Grant" by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his project "Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Southeast Asian Sound Recordings; a fellow at the “Interweaving Performance Cultures” Center (Berlin); and resident artist at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstraße. In his works as an artist-scholar, yamomo engages the topics of sonic migrations, queer aesthetics, and post/de- colonial acoustemologies.
