Dayang Yraola (b.1976) is a curator from Manila, Philippines.

She received Bachelor of Arts in Philippine Studies and Master of Arts in Museum Studies from the University of the Philippines. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies at Lingnan University Hong Kong.

She is former Archivist and Collections Manager of the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology (2006-2015); curator of Jose Maceda Exhibit Series (2013, 2017 & 2018); founder and lead curator of art project series: Project Glocal Stamped/ Transi(en)t (2011-2015) and Composite Performance/ Noise(s)/ Circuits (2015-2018); and at present an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts.

Dayang’s curatorial focus is on process as media (archival and laboratory), technology as media (analogue, digital, mechanical, electronic), and senses as media; with research on ecology of art practices (art residencies,  sound practice communities), and sounding and listening cultures (Sonic Manila Research, since 2014).

https://soundcloud.com/quantumtala
[photo credit: Gibran Baharuddin]