Event overview
Visual Cultures Public Programme lecture Lynnée Denise and Louis Moreno.
Stuart Hall described a conjuncture as a moment of ruptural fusion — a point of historicity in which social, cultural and political forces collide and recombine. It is also a moment when people pushed to the margins of metropolitan power use music to study, analyse and strategise the conditions of marginalisation.
In this conversation, Lynnée Denise and Louis Moreno cross-reference a set of tracks — beginning with Sylvester in Watts, Los Angeles, and moving between the spaces and places of Disco, P-Funk, House and UK Garage — to trace moments when social reality acquires a different rhythm of vision; moments when the sound of music becomes a conjunctural analyser.
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 parents’ record collection and the sonic experimentation of the 1980s, her work traces the migrations of music and the role of Black electronic traditions in the African Diaspora. In 2013, she coined the term DJ Scholarship to describe how knowledge is gathered, interpreted, and produced through a conceptual and theoretical framework, shifting the role of the DJ from party purveyor to archivist and cultural worker. A doctoral student in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, Denise’s research explores how sound system culture creates a living archive for the Black queer diaspora.
Louis Moreno is a writer, lecturer, urban theorist and music producer. His work investigates the cultural modalities of financial capitalism with a critical focus on the spatial aesthetics of architecture, urbanism and electronic music. He is currently a Visiting Professor at TU Wien, Vienna, and Research Fellow and PhD Supervisor in the Department of Visual Cultures and Centre for Research Architecture, University of London. He is a member of Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective, Infra Metropolitan Systems and produces music as Unspecified Enemies.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 Dec 2025 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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