Dr. Layla Zami is an innovative academic and artist. Her research, teaching, and creative work orbits around the nexus of cultural memory, corporeality, performance, diaspora, and spacetime.
She is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Performance Studies at Freie Universität in Berlin (Germany), as part of the collaborative research centre on Intervening Arts (SFB1512), and Adj. Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (New York), where she was a Co-Chair of Black Lives Matter at Pratt.
As an Interdisciplinary Resident Artist with the dance company Oxana Chi Dance & Art , Layla Zami creates and performs music, sounds, spoken words and physical theater. Zami is much appreciated for her delicacy and versatility as a multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, kalimba, chalumeau, and more), and her poetic engagement with sounds and words. The duo performed and presented at festivals, theaters and universities in the USA, Canada, France, Finland, Serbia, Martinique, Taiwan, Indonesia, Turkey, India, Gha