{"id":2587,"date":"2026-05-14T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=2587"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:44:25","slug":"melanin-kris","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/poet\/melanin-kris\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanin Kris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melanin Kris is een multidisciplinair storyteller uit Rotterdam. Zijn werk is geworteld in de diasporische ervaring en beweegt zich op het snijvlak van spoken word, performance en Afrofuturisme. Melanins creatieve missie luidt: Know your History, Architect the Future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melanin Kris maakt immersieve poetry shows, multimediale installaties en collaboratieve geluidsprojecten. In zijn show The Legacy of Colonization onderzocht hij de prekoloniale geschiedenis door de ogen van museumobjecten. In 2025 resulteerde zijn werk in een multimediale installatie in Carnegie Hall, New York \u2014 A Colored Illusion \u2014 waarin digitale po\u00ebzie en kawina muziek samensmelten. Kris is ook onderdeel van kunstcollectief BSAM en bracht samen met Sweet Toko de vinyl single \u2018Sweet &amp; Sour\u2019 uit. Daarnaast geeft hij workshops in po\u00ebzie, storytelling en performance aan studenten en jongeren in Nederland en daarbuiten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2706,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2587","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"nl","translations":{"nl":2587,"en":2589},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poet"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2587\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}