Other amplifications from my career

Previously under the moniker ‘marlo eggplant’, sound works are textural compositions which develop from microscopic tone landscapes into dense and expansive states of noise. The works aim to blur the definitions of the (un)intentional and the myth of permanence.
De Lara was a 2021 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow and co-facilitator for the Year 4 Cohort of the program. The Intercultural Leadership Institute is a year-long intensive leadership experience for artists, culture bearers and other arts practitioners. ILI is a collaborative program of Alternate ROOTS, First Peoples Fund, National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) and PA’I Foundation.
De Lara is an active participant in the Sonic Cyberfeminisms cohort, a co-administrator for the Global Ethnic Majority Women in Academia Network, and founder of Ladyz in Noyz arts collective.
Marlo was the 2023 RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow at the The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities - University of Edinburgh.

Bio

Marlo De Lara (they/siya) obtained a PhD in Cultural Studies (University of Leeds) and an MA in Psychosocial Studies from the Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex. Their creative practice works within the realms of sound performance, visual distraction, and film. Using found objects, installation, and various forms of amplification, environments/structures use sound to impart meaning and affect for the participant. As the child of Philippine migrants, De Lara’s unabashed feminist sociopolitical practice/research editorializes on contemporary global conditions. As an arts facilitator, using their critiques of the nonprofit industrial complex and institutional learning, De Lara aims to transgress and subvert traditional hierarchical ways of managing contemporary art spaces. In the role of community care, Marlo uses mutual aid and emergent strategies in combination with decolonial ways of nourishing equity, diversity, and inclusion practices to ensure safety and access for all.

Marlo is currently completing her certification as a Certified Deep Listening Facilitator and shaping a career as Counsellor/Coach/Guide in therapeutic healing methods informed by Western psychotherapeutic/psychological, healing arts, expressive therapies, and various indigenous practices, most specifically sikolohiyang pilipino.

“Using found objects, installation, and various forms of amplification, I assemble environments and structures that use sound to impart meaning and affect for the participant. While I assemble installations and sound sculptures, it is the interaction between sound, the visual work, and the story of those that encounter the work. I use video and film in my practice as well as live performances of improvised sound. My work is often informed by my experience as the child of Filipino migrants of the ‘brain drain’ and my coming of age. The work is created through an unabashed feminist sociopolitical practice/research that editorializes on contemporary global conditions. ”