Decolonizing South East Asian Sound Archives

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DeCoSEAS is a transnational NL-FR-UK research project that renegotiates established understandingsof heritage curation. An experienced, cross-disciplinary team opens up three unique collections,located in Europe, with extremely rare music and sound from Southeast Asia (SEA), that haveworldwide fame in terms of their quality, quantity and diversity, but are barely accessible. DeCoSEASfacilitates:physical access for SE Asian stakeholders (WP1),online access for scholars, artists and stakeholders worldwide (WP2),publication channels about heritage curation for SE Asian stakeholders (WP3) andoutreach projects for culture consumers worldwide (WP4).Each WP is devised to achieve corresponding objectives:1. Interrogate the colonial patrimony of archives,2. Conceive a new digital curational framework,3. Transfer publishing and editing agencies about heritage curation to heritage stakeholders, and4. Democratize curatorial practices.The objectives constitute DeCoSEAS envisaged decolonization of heritage curation that acutelyresponds to current public and academic debates on de/colonization and heritage restitution. Theproject is a pilot study for this vision adopting a knowledge chain with three formative orientationpoints: the improvement of access to heritage, the transfer of agency to stakeholders of heritage, andthe diversification of the dialogue about heritage curation.DeCoSEAS employs a paradigm-shifting methodological approach focused on hearing and listening asdialogical modes of knowledge formation. It complements conventional academic faculties ofwatching and reading as modes of singular objectification. DeCoSEAS strives for the inclusion ofvoices, stances and interpretations that have hitherto remained unheard in existing discourses aboutheritage by attending to multiple, time-bound and intricately entangled voices simultaneously (thoserecorded from the past and those from SE Asian partners today). With these action plans, DeCoSEASaims to provide new insights in and new practices of heritage curation and participation.