About

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I am Tara Aldughaither (b. 1990, Saudi Arabia), also known as Yamama, a sound artist, researcher, curator and steward of women’s oral inheritances in the Arab Gulf. My practice investigates the voice as a site of haunting, transmission, and reparative remembrance, approaching music and the oral tradition as technologies of endurance. 

I work across sound, performance, listening, and writing, I develop long-term artistic research, ecological traces, and vernacular knowledge systems across the Arab Gulf.

I develop conceptual frameworks that emerge from the lived continuity of migratory, social, and ecological sonic inheritances. I move between artistic research, performance, archival practice, and collective study, treating process itself as a reparative methodology through which vernacular knowledge can continue to be transmitted, transformed, and shared.

Central to my practice is Sawtasura, an archival initiative I founded in 2020 dedicated to women’s oral traditions across the Arab Gulf. Since its inception, Sawtasura has evolved into Bayt Yamama - a home and ecology for listening that brings together community-gathered archives, publishing, performances, and shared resources to support collective research, transmission, and circulation.

My work has been presented at institutions and platforms including Tate Modern, Sharjah Biennial 16, Darat Al Funun, the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Cité internationale des arts, Delfina Foundation, Gorki Theatre, and OneBeat.

I’m always happy to connect around research, commissions, collaborations, and conversations. You can also follow my ongoing writing and reflections through my Substack.