Diasporas Now U.K. Tour 2023 - 2024
Institute of Contemporary Arts
13 February, 2024
Diasporas Now’s debut UK tour final stop at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London features performances by Tony Njoku, Valerie Asiimwe Amani, Zein Majali, ZINZILE, Pierre and Shauwdii encompassing performance art, live music, and DJ sets sounding new terrains through body and spirit.
Performance Lineup
Welcome by Rieko Whitfield, Paola Estrella, and Lulu Wang
Pierre is a dance artist and movement director based in London. Working around themes of queer history and ancestry, rejection, sexualization and hope. Their practice focuses on dance, using movement to explore these themes, questions and experiences. They implore elements of contemporary dance, Paraguayan dance and their own movement language.
Tony Njoku is a British-Nigerian composer, music producer and songwriter from London. Raised between Lagos and London, his self-penned and produced songs create a striking panorama of evocative sound. Tony is a versatile artist, demonstrating a unique mix of raw, vulnerable vocals, unique music production skills, and compositional mastery.
Zein Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist currently based in London. Formerly an engineer and data analyst, she turned to the arts out of an urgency to archive and examine the accelerated cultural shifts in the Arab world. While her work touches on a post-colonial and globalised Middle East, her primary area of interest is the internet and its effects on both geopolitics and community.
ZINZILE (formerly FAUCI) is a multimedia artist working in the physical, digital, and visionary realms – also known for their creative world of lowkeycctv. ZINZILE’s current creative lineage has been expressed through music, music production, dance, live performance, choreography, video, DJ sets, and more. Their work takes foundation in “wurld’melding, wurld’bringing, kolaj, omaj, arkiiv, kapture, rapture, selebrasyon + liberasyon practices.”
Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice interrogates the ways in which body, language, and myth are used to situate (or isolate) the self within community; with works that bridge the political, domestic and intimate.
Shauwdii is an audio-visual artist and DJ from Hackney, London. She experiments with genre bending and field recordings from the city, creating haunting cyclical dub narratives. With interest lying in destruction, time and morality. She intends to uncover the emptiness beneath social allegory through sound, movement, video and sculpture.
