Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives and the Decolonial Dialogues present
Elizabeth Enriquez (University of the Philippines) will open the programme with the keynote lecture, followed by a panel discussion with the research partners and fellows of the Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) research project.
The evening will conclude with the live staging of the 2020 Deutschlandfunk Hörspiel, Interferences, performed by meLê yamomo and Thijs van den Geest. They will be accompanied by the gamelan ensemble under the direction of Krishna Sutedja. Drinks will be provided towards the end of the programme.
The event will be moderated by Vincent Kuitenbrouwer.
16:00 Public Lecture: Resistance and decolonisation in Philippine broadcasting, by Elizabeth Enriquez, (University of the Philippines)
Radio broadcasting functioned as a "soft power" that Americans effectively employed to shape Filipino consciousness during the US colonisation of the Philippines in the first half of the 20th century. Following the war, and arguably until the present time, colonial broadcasting appears to persist in the Philippines. However, what endures is not a perfect copy of the colonial culture, but a hybrid in a liminal space that provides opportunities for counter-colonial discourse as the suppressed knowledges enter the space of the dominant discourse and upset its authority.
17:00 Discussion Panel: Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives, by Elizabeth Enriquez, Cristina Juan, Ignatius Aditya Adhiyatmaka, Luc Marraffa.
17:30 Interferences: Live
This is a piece about failure.
The Philips company broadcast the first radio broadcasts in the Dutch East Indies in 1927. A little later, the French established their radio stations in Indochina and the British launched the BBC's Empire Service. It didn't take long for the local population to follow suit. Sultan Mangkunegaran VII of Solo in Java funded the Solo Radio Company, which broadcast in the Javanese language and broadcast traditional music from Java from 1933. Since wireless signals do not stop at any border, the various colonies in Southeast Asia soon heard the popular music and anti-colonial voices of their neighbors.
The performance will be in English. It is based on the Hörstück "Interferenzen," commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur as part of Schwerpunkt: 100 Jahre Radio.
18:30-19:15 Drinks
DeCoSEAS is a research project by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).