Layla Zami
Biographic Data
| ID | 1432303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Layla Zami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Layla |
| FAMILY NAME | Zami |
| SIGNATURE | ZAMI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humanities & Media Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1613-5199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diasporic Dissolving
This essay wanders with and wonders about forms of diasporic dissolving in the works of Black artists identifying with the African American, Caribbean, and Afro-European diaspora. Dissolving is a material and metaphorical process suggested here to name a possible encounter with Black sound when we allow improvisation in our listening practice. Thinking alongside the idea of im/possibility as a trope shaping and shaped by Black sonic itineraries, …
Dancing After Life
This essay explores the intersection of concert dance, cultural memory, Black womanhood, and non-linear spacetime from an Afro-European perspective. Inspired by Black feminist methodologies, the text interweaves performance analysis, historical context, interdisciplinary theory including my own concept of perforMemory, and auto-ethnographic experience gained through participant observation. My writing moves along three lines of inquiry tuned in t…
Dissidence, Dissidance
Here German dancer-choreographer Oxana Chi can be seen in her dance performance Killjoy, a tribute to the French artist-activists duo Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.1 Figure 1. Oxana Chi dances Kill
Diasporic Dissolving
This essay wanders with and wonders about forms of diasporic dissolving in the works of Black artists identifying with the African American, Caribbean, and Afro-European diaspora. Dissolving is a material and metaphorical process suggested here to name a possible encounter with Black sound when we allow improvisation in our listening practice. Thinking alongside the idea of im/possibility as a trope shaping and shaped by Black sonic itineraries, …
Dissidence, Dissidance
Here German dancer-choreographer Oxana Chi can be seen in her dance performance Killjoy, a tribute to the French artist-activists duo Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.1 Figure 1. Oxana Chi dances Kill
Dancing After Life
This essay explores the intersection of concert dance, cultural memory, Black womanhood, and non-linear spacetime from an Afro-European perspective. Inspired by Black feminist methodologies, the text interweaves performance analysis, historical context, interdisciplinary theory including my own concept of perforMemory, and auto-ethnographic experience gained through participant observation. My writing moves along three lines of inquiry tuned in t…
Diasporic Dissolving
This essay wanders with and wonders about forms of diasporic dissolving in the works of Black artists identifying with the African American, Caribbean, and Afro-European diaspora. Dissolving is a material and metaphorical process suggested here to name a possible encounter with Black sound when we allow improvisation in our listening practice. Thinking alongside the idea of im/possibility as a trope shaping and shaped by Black sonic itineraries, …
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works) · Chemical Engineering (1 works) · Contemporary dance (1 works) · Context (archaeology) (1 works) · Dance (1 works)