Nine Yamamoto-Masson is a French-Japanese artist, practising theorist, researcher, translator and PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam.
In academic research, artistic and activist practice, her work examines and mobilises historical memory, ideology, resistance and counter-narratives at the site of their encounter with socially engaged art and radical creative imagination as a critical forum and as method of resistance towards social equity and justice. Using a decolonial intersectional feminist framework, she examines configurations of power, prejudice, violence, representation in everyday life and analyses the necro-geopolitics our bodies and existence are entangled within. Her work is an active critique of the white supremacist elitism and aloofness of “Western” institutions of knowledge that wield (neo-)colonial oligarchical power in enforcing self-serving definitions of truth, suppressing knowledges, silencing voices of already maginalised groups.
