Reading Group Reading Cycles Linett Kamala, Julian Henriques, and Lynée Denise

Reading Cycles
Wednesdays in September 2025
5:30–7:30pm
Stuart Hall Library, iniva 

Join us for a series of reading cycles expanding on the themes of Dub Encyclopaedia, a multimedia installation by Antonio José Guzman and Iva Jankovic. Through indigo-dyed textiles, archival materials, and sonic traces, the artists explore diasporic memory, colonial legacy, and radical tradition of dub. 

These reading sessions invite guest facilitators Linett Kamala, Julian Henriques, and Lynnée Denise to lead collective reflections and discussions grounded in the exhibition’s key themes. Drawing from the Stuart Hall Library’s collection and wider references, each session offers an open space to listen, read aloud, and think together about resonance, language, resistance, and the poetics of sound. 

Dates:
Session 1, led by Linett Kamala – Wednesday 10 September
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Session 2, led by Julian Henriques – Wednesday 17 September
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Session 3, led by Lynnée Denise – Wednesday 24 September
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Time: 5:30–7:30pm

Location: Stuart Hall Library, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
 

Free and open to all. Refreshments provided. 

About facilitators 

Linett Kamala is an interdisciplinary creative on a mission to amplify wellness through her offerings which include: DJ, Artist, Academic, Community Organiser, Creative Producer & Founding Director of LIN KAM ART. She is known as the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Sound System Queen’, being credited as one of the first female DJs to perform on a sound system in the mid 1980s at the event and is now one of the organisers, serving as Board Director.  She founded and puts on the South Kilburn CarniVale, a free community wellness festival in her local neighbourhood in NW London.  Linett is also President of the University of the Arts London Alumni of Colour Association, Associate Lecturer in MA Performance: Design & Practice at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and in BA (Hons) Live Event & Festival Management at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.  

Professor Julian Henriques is convenor of the MA Cultural Studies programme, director of the Topology Research Unit and a co-founder of the Sound System Outernational practice research group in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to this, Julian ran the film and television department at CARIMAC at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. His credits as a writer and director include the reggae musical feature film Babymother and We the Ragamuffin short. Julian researches street cultures, music and technologies and is interested in the uses of sound as a critical and creative tool. His sound sculptures include Knots & Donuts (2011) at Tate Modern and his books include Changing the Subject (1998), Sonic Bodies (2011) and Sonic Media (forthcoming 2026). He is currently the Principal Investigator on an ERC research grant, Sonic Street Technologies: Culture, Diaspora and Knowledge. 

Lynnée Denise, a global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought, is an Amsterdam-Johannesburg-based writer and interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California. Influenced by her parent’s record collection and the 1980s, her work highlights the intimacies of music migration and Black electronic music in the African Diaspora. In 2013, she coined the term DJ Scholarship, which examines how knowledge is gathered, interpreted, and produced through a conceptual and theoretical framework, shifting the role of the DJ from a party purveyor to an archivist and cultural worker. A doctoral student in the Department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, Denise’s research addresses how iterations of sound system culture create a living archive for the Black queer diaspora.