"Modulations" – Film + Talk mit Lynnée Denise

In the organizer's words:

silent green presents

In this lecture, music and cultural critic Lynnée Denise uses her concept of "turntable epistemology" to explorecentral themes of the film Modulations: Cinema for the Ear. With reference to the black British cultural film and video collective Sankofa, Detroit techno, Jamaican dub and the intersections of race, gender, class and technology, Denise examines how the turntable culture of the 1980s shaped site-specific practices and spatial productions - and thereby opened up new sites for knowledge and cultural intervention.

Lynnée Denise
Lynnée Denise is an Amsterdam-based writer and interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California, and a global practitioner of sound, language and Black Atlantic thought. Influenced by her parents' record collection and the 1980s, her work foregrounds the intimacies of underground club movements, music migration and bass culture in the African diaspora.

In 2013, she coined the term "DJ Scholarship" to explore how knowledge is collected, interpreted and produced - with a conceptual approach that shifts the role of DJs from party organizers to archivists and cultural workers. As a PhD candidate in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, Denise explores how sound system culture creates a living archive and sanctuary for a black queer diaspora.

Wednesday, October 29
silent green Kuppelhalle
Admission: 19:00 / Start: 20:00
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