Decolonizing Sound Workshop with meLê yamomo

Event Details

Event type: All Ages

Venus Fest in Collaboration with Musagetes/Arts Everywhere and Inter/Access Presents:
 
Decolonizing Sound: Post:Migrant Presences
with meLê yamomo

Primarily for Post-Migrant Artists
* Limited to 15 spots, 10 priority spots reserved for Q/BIPOC Artists

Sliding Scale PWYC $0-$40,
noone turned away
reserve here but pay at the door

Post:Migrant Presences
How can ‘presence’ interrupt dominant aesthetics? How could the inhabiting of the here and now be a revolutionary act? If history is musical of score of modernity, or a play script of colonial conquest, how can improvisation be a radical act of decoloniality? This workshop explores how ‘presence’ constitutes aesthetic experience, and how the aesthetic reshifts how we compose or order the world. In understanding our movements, mobilities, and presences within social, geographical, and historical spaces how might our improvisation radically shift history?  Parousia, according to philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer is the state of absolute presence—the timelessness of an experience despite and within its multiple repetitions in art and performance. “[A]n artwork is […] self-identical in every moment where it achieves such a presence, so also the absolute moment in which a spectator stands are both one of self-forgetfulness and of mediation with himself” (Gadamer 2004: 125). In suspending time through parousia, how can we unsettle fixed scores and deterministic dramaturgies to improvise and migrate our present to new utopias?

In this interdisciplinary workshop, meLê yamomo explores with participants how ‘presence’ constitutes aesthetic experience, and how the aesthetic reshifts how we compose or order the world.

meLê yamomo has lived in Lucena City, Los Baños, Manila, Seoul, Bangkok, Warwick, and Munich, and currently resides between Amsterdam and Berlin. He is an Assistant Professor of New Dramaturgies, Media Cultures, Artistic Research, and Decoloniality at the University of Amsterdam, a member of the Amsterdam Young Academy, and author of Sounding Modernities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He is the project leader and principal investigator of the EU-JPICH project Decolonizing Southeast Asian Archives (DeCoSEAS), and the Dutch Research Council project »Sonic Entanglements«. meLê is the fourth winner of the Open Ear Award, the most prestigious composer prize in the Netherlands, and one of the 2020 KNAW Early Career Awardees by the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a resident artist at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse where his creations Echoing Europe, sonus, and Forces of Overtones are on repertoire. meLê curates the Decolonial Frequences Festival and hosts/produces the Sonic Entanglements podcast. In his works as artist-scholar, meLê engages the topics of sonic migrations, queer aesthetics, and post/de-colonial acoustemologies.
https://site.meleyamomo.com/

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