Rehearsing Decolonial Curatorship of Southeast Asian Sound Archives in Europe

What are the critical implications of dialogic thinking and writing? Can we find clues in the collaborative possibilities of performance and musicking for sustaining such conversations? This chapter dissects and intensifies these questions through a dialogue between yamomo and Titus in outlining their respective positions in the gradual realization of their plans pertaining to Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS, 2021-2024).
Through the entanglements of our respective agencies in working on this project we reflect on existing constellations of power that also feature in our collaboration – with each other and with our Southeast Asian and European partners.
Hence, we emphatically include ourselves in our critique of such power constellations. Our epistemic practices encompass performative, reflective, and artistic dimensions that we outline here in order to offer some suggestions for sustained decolonial practice in the arts and humanities.