Biography

Dayang Yraola focuses on art as expanded practice involving residencies, performances, exhibits and archives, including research on ecology of art practices, such as artist initiatives/collectives, art residencies, sound practice communities. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Theory, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines and serves as Curator for the University of the Philippines Fine Arts Gallery and Director for the University of the Philippines Art Prize.

Previously, she was Archivist and Collections Manager at the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology (UPCE) (2006–2015). Her tasks at the UPCE included the digital archiving of the Jose Maceda Collection, part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Registry.

Yraola has an independent curatorial practice focused on processed-based art projects that involve artists from different cities in Southeast and East Asia. She is the founder and lead curator of Project Glocal (2011-2014) and Composite series (2015/2017). Other curatorial projects include Media/Art Kitchen: Reality Distortion Field (2013) with 12 other curators from Southeast Asia and Japan Foundation; Fieldnotes (2012) and Ikotoki Para (2014), in collaboration with Dr Maria Christine Muyco of the UP College of Music; and Listening Terminals (2015), in collaboration with Prof Roselle Pineda of UP College of Arts and Letters for Project Bakawan; Listen to my Music (2013), and reading Maceda, PRELUDE (2017) for UP Center for Ethnomusicology.

She earned a BA in Philippines Studies and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of the Philippines, and Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Studies from Lingnan University Hong Kong. In 2020 she was appointed Research Fellow at the LUHK Centre for Cultural Research and Development.

Born in 1976 in Manila, Yraola lives and works between Hong Kong and Manila.

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