Aminata Estelle Diouf

Aminata Estelle Diouf is an artist, culture worker, and researcher in media and cultural anthropology, working at the intersection of visual and performance art, film, and decolonial activist practices in the Black diaspora. She has a background in English philology, East Asian, and Transcultural Studies, working through the frame of intersectional, queer and Black feminist theory as well as the notion of embodiment as a form of epistemic knowledge. After her studies in Heidelberg and Tokyo, she Initially worked in the indie film scene for the iconic film label Rapid Eye Movies. From 2019 to 2021, she worked for the DFG (German Research Foundation) as a coordinator for a pilot project in the field of internationalization and digitization. She was a cultural facilitator for the exhibition RESIST! The Art of Resistance at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne. She has also worked as a playwright/dramaturge for the collective Black German Arts and Culture, co-developing the performance art piece The Waterbearer, which premiered in March 2024 and was part of Carnegie Hall's 2024 theater festival. Together with Agnes Stillger, she co-curated the exhibition My Life Began Several Centuries Ago - An Ecosystem of Circulating Images in collaboration with the ADKDW and University of Cologne in 2023.

Using methods such as auto-ethnography, assemblage, and media analysis, her dissertation project “Shaping Narratives, Shifting Visibilities – Black Identities & the Art of Decolonial Resistance in the Post-Digital Age“ examines Afro-diasporic connections and transglobal networks of Black cultural production and decolonial resistance in the post-digital age. Along the axis of locationality and temporality, it looks at how Black diasporans around the globe conceive notions of past, present and future in their artistic work and utilize cross-cultural subversive approaches of diasporic connectivity.

Kontakt

E-Mail: adiouf@uni-koeln.de