During the era of colonialism and early independence, state agents, foreign researchers and collectors, as well as commercial radio, film and gramophone companies from the Global North engaged in the collection of...
Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) is delighted to announce the recipients of the Southeast Asia–Europe Visiting Fellowship 2023. Out of more than eighty excellent proposals...
Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) invites up to four Visiting fellows from Southeast Asia for a three-month stay to work with one or more Southeast Asian collections within audio-visual archives...
On 19 September 2021, the »Decolonial Frequencies« Festival, curated by meLê yamomo, will open at the Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. Familiar sounds and terrifying noises. The fleeting fragments of remembered...
Preview screening, in the presence of the director and followed by a debate moderated by André Iteanu, anthropologist (CNRS, EPHE) organized by the Société des Océanistes as part of the Océanistes cinema cycle, in...
Come listen to/watch Interferences: Live at the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin on 15 September.DeCoSEAS project leader, meLê yamomo’s »Interferenzen: Koloniales Scheitern im Radio«, premiered...
meLê yamomo will be joining the Sesi Viral Biennale Jogja focusing on Decolonization and Art Practice/Politics as a responder. The session includes Pak Daud Tanudirjo presenting his collaborative exhibition of women...
DeCoSEAS project leaders meLê yamomo and Barbara Titus published a joint article about the complexities of curating colonial sound archives with DeCoSEAS concerns forming the core of the article. The article was...
Following the 2021 Annual Philippine Studies Conference at SOAS, University of London, PI Cristina Juan curated the virtual exhibit Kaagi: Tracing Visayan Identities Through Cultural Texts. The exhibit explores the ways...
THE #sonicentanglements PODCAST IS UP! Hosted by sound historian meLê yamomo, the Sonic Entanglements Podcast examines the history of sound in Southeast Asia through conversations with sound experts: historians...
