meLê Yamomo

(UvA)

meLê Yamomo is an assistant professor of theatre, performance, and sound studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is a current laureate of a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project ”Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Southeast Asian Sound Recordings”. He holds a PhD in theatre studies and musicology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. In his works as artist-scholar, meLê engages the topics of sonic migrations, queer aesthetics, and post/de-colonial acoustemologies.

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