Jay Afrisando. Photo: © DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program / Diana Pfammatter. Jay Afrisando
Jay Afrisando is a composer, multimedia artist, researcher, and educator. Through multisensory and antidisciplinary practices, he works on aural diversity, disability, accessibility, and decolonising arts manifested in music-theater, film, installation, witty storytelling, and other genre-bending experiences. Through collaborations with aurally diverse and disabled artists, curators, and communities, his work celebrates neurodivergent, Deaf, and disabled modes of hearing-listening. He treats access as an artistic resource and uses diverse methodologies to center crip practices. His lived experience as a neurodivergent has created intimate relationships that involve cross-media and cross-sensory listening practices.
His works have been presented at various spaces, including daadgalerie (DE), TanzFaktur (DE), ARTJOG (ID), UCSC Institute of the Arts and Sciences (US), Indexical (US), Curb Appeal Gallery (US), Sound Scene at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum (US), HERE Arts Center (US), ARGOS Centre for Audiovisual Arts (BE), and Attenborough Arts Centre (UK), among others. He is a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Music & Sound Fellow 2024-25, a MAP Fund grantee 2022, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow 2021-22. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
