Mariah
Reodica

Awardee

Country

Philippines

Mariah Reodica promotes free expression through her artistic practice.

Themes
Gender equality
Free Expression / Cilvil Society
Disciplines
Media / Journalism
Music
Video Art
Awards
SEED Award 2024

Profile

Mariah Reodica is a a musician, filmmaker, and cultural journalist based in the Philippines. Mariah graduated from the University of the Philippines Film Institute with a Bachelor of Arts in Film. She founded Anecdotal Records, a aural research initiative mapping music and technology rooted in local and lived experiences through writing, curating live performances, and workshops. Through generating sound, her practice tunes into trajectories pointing towards gender equality, press freedom, and collective aspirations.

As a cultural journalist, Mariah has published about independent art initiatives, women and queer artists, audiovisual archives, and other ongoing currents in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. She has taught film at the University of the Philippines and De La Salle-College of St. Benilde. Reodica received the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism at the Ateneo Art Awards and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.