Lynnée Denise

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.