Oxana Chi's dance art in writings by others and by herself.
Here you will find selected publications by and about the artist.
Book: Contemporary PerforMemory: Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
Layla Zami discusses Oxana Chi's dance works
Autor: Dr. Layla Zami
Publisher: transcript Verlag Bielefeld, Critical Dance Studies series
in partnership with Columbia University Press, New York 2020
transcript publishing
(ebook orders, and print orders for Europe)
Columbia University Press
(print orders in the Americas, Caribbean, Australia, and Asia)
Book: Sichtbar Bleiben - Disco, Bühne, Tempel
Author: Oxana Chi
Editors: Oxana Chi & Layla Zami
Publisher: epubli, Berlin 2024
Book: Danse Traversées
Oxana Chi and Dr. Layla Zami each publish a chapter in this anthology (en français)
Authors: Oxana Chi & Dr. Layla Zami
Editors: Sarah Andrieu, Marina Nordera
Publisher: L'Harmattan, Paris 2025
Online Journal: Liquid Blackness
Layla Zami presents an research article including Oxana Chi's dance art
Author: Dr. Layla Zami
Editors: John Brooks, Jonathan Leal
Advisor: Walton Muyumba
Publisher: Duke University Press
Online Journal: Instruments of the Black Gooey Universe
Oxana Chi's and Layla Zami's art are featured in Romi Ron Morrison's chapter of the The Kitchen's 2022-23 L.A.B. Research Residency
Author: Romi Ron Morrison
Editor: Zainab Aliyu, Daniella Brito, Alison Burstein
Publisher: The Kitchen, New York 2025
Book: Stimme, Kritik, Emotion
Dr. Layla Zami presents an book chapter discussing Oxana Chi's dance art in the interdisciplinary international anthology in honor of Prof. Dr. Dores Kolesch
Author: Dr. Layla Zami
Editors: Jenny Schrödl, Theresa Schütz
Publisher: Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2025
Journal: Frauen und Film – Archive
Special Issue for the 50th anniversary of the journal Frauen und Film (Women and Film)
Authors: Oxana Chi & Dr. Layla Zami
Editors: Dagmar Brunow, Katharina Müller
Publisher: AvivA Verlag Berlin 2024
Book: Black Lives Under Nazism
Article by Sarah Phillips Casteel about Chi's choreographisches Filmwerk Dancing Through Gardens
Authors: Sarah Phillips Casteel
Editor: Black Lives in the Diaspora, Past, Present, Future Collektiv
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York City 2024
Journal: Forum Modernes Theater, Vol. 34, no. 2
Article by Dr. Layla Zami about the potential of dance and sound to transform performance studies, with a contribution by Oxana Chi
Authors: Dr. Layla Zami, Oxana Chi
Editors: Karina Rocktäschel, Theresa Schütz, and Doris Kolesch
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Publishing House, Tübingen 2024
Book: Afrodiasporic Identitis in Germany
Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany features Oxana Chi & Layla Zami
Author: Silvia Wojczewski
Editor: Graeme Currie
Publisher: transcript publishing, Bielefeld 2024
Book: Dance Routines
Article by Oxana Chi and Dr. Layla Zami about Chi's Choreography Killjoy and on epistemologies of dance routines in relation to movement and memory
Authors: Oxana Chi & Dr. Layla Zami
Editor: Katja Schneider
Publisher: transcript publishing, Bielefeld 2023
Book: OutSisters, InSisters, Lesben
Essay by Oxana Chi & Layla Zami
Authors: Oxana Chi, Layla Zami
Editors: Barbara Guth, Susanne Bischoff
Publisher: tredition for LFT vor Ort e.V. Northeim 2022
Journal: Life-stories and the use of drawings for ethnography with Afrodescendent women in Germany
(page 16-19)
Article Online
Articel by Silvia Wojczewski about thr mobility of the Artist Duo Oxana Chi & Layla Zami
Author: Silvia Wojczewski
Editor: Mélanie-Evely Pétremont
Publisher: scnat, swiss academy of sciences 2022
Journal: Relating Afro-Diasporic Identities in Germany: Life-Stories of Millennial Women
Article about the lifes and travels of the artist duo Chi & Zami
Author: Silvia Wojczewski
Editors: Nathalie Montargot and Larbi Safaa
Publisher: Journal Mondes du Tourisme, Lausanne 2021
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory
(page 345-353)
Article Online
Layla Zami discusses Oxana Chi's choreography Killjoy
Autor: Dr. Layla Zami
Editor: Kim Bobier, Marisa Williamson
Publisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK 2021
Dance Research Journal: Dancing After Life: Flexible Spacetimes of Black Female ResistDance
(page 67-87)
Description
Article by Dr. Layla Zami with a essay by Oxana Chi about Chi's Choreography I Step On Air
Authors: Dr. Layla Zami, Oxana Chi
Editor: Dr. Nadine George-Graves
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, USA 2021
Online Journal: Recherches en Danse
Oxana Chi‘s dance piece Through Gardens is discussed in the article Danser le passé au présent.
Author: Dr. Layla Zami
Editors: Claudia Palazzolo et Guillaume Sintès
Publisher: Mémoires de l’œuvre en danse, Paris, France 2019
Book: Contemporary PerforMemory: Moving Through Diasporic Dancescapes in the 21st Century
Layla Zami discusses Oxana Chi's choreographies
Autor: Dr. Layla Zami
Humboldt-University, Berlin 2018
Book: Neues Judentum, altes Erinnern
(page 261-275)
Layla Zami discusses Oxana Chi's Choreography Through Gardens
Author: Dr. Layla Zami
Editors: Eva Lezzi, Dmitrij Belkin, Laura Hensch
Publisher: Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2017
Book: Lambda Nordica, postcolonial queer europe
(page 125-150)
Layla Zami enriches the publication with her 25 pages Dancing the past in the Present Tense about Oxana Chi's Choreographies
Author: Dr. Layla Zami
Editors: Jenny Björklund, Ulrika Dahl
Publisher: Uppsala University, Sweden 2017
Zine: Ungehörig Nr. 2 "Performing_Memory"
(page 23-25)
Oxana contributes to the Zine with her essay Neferet iti Reloaded.
Author: Oxana Chi
Editor & Publisher: Marie Springborn
Humboldt-University, Berlin 2016
Book: Sisters & Souls
(page 201-213)
Book Description & Announcement
Oxana contributes to the book with her essay Von hier nach dort. I step on air.
Author: Oxana Chi
Editor: Natasha A. Kelly
Publisher: Orlanda Verlag, Berlin 2015
Book: Sichtbar Unsichtbar
(page 261-275)
Layla Zami contributes to the book with her text Oxana Chis dancings sciences (Oxana Chis tanzende Wissenschaffung).
Author: Dr. Layla Zami
Editors: Maria Heidegger, Nina Kogler, Mathilde Schmitt, Ursula Schneider, Annette Steinsiek.
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld 2015
Book: Eingeschrieben_Zeichen setzen gegen Rassismus an deutschen Hochschulen – Humboldt University
(page 90)
Oxana Chi contributes to Ngubia Kurias book with a text/screenplay Brief Nr. 21, a screenplay scene of the Documentary Film Dancing Through Gardens.
Author: Oxana Chi
Editor: Ngubia Kuria
Publisher: w_orten & meer, Berlin 2015
Zine: The Living Archiv
(page 52-61)
Layla Zami contributes to the book with her text Oxana Chi von Zopf bis Fluss about Chi's choreography Neferet iti
Author: Dr. Layla Zami
Editor: Aicha Diallo
Publisher: Heinrich Böll Foundation 2013
Brochure: Salon Qi Festival
Essays, political lyrics, short storys & dance foto art in memory to Tatjana Barbakoff.
Authors: Oxana Chi, Dr. Layla Zami, Günter Goebbels, Lou Straus-Ernst
Editors: Oxana Chi & Layla Zami
Berlin 2011
Art Catalog: Tatjana Barbakoff
(page 80-81)
Historian Günter Goebbels describes Oxana Chi's Through Gardens in memory to Tatjana Barbakoff.
Author: Günter Goebbels,
Editor & Curator: Günter Goebbels,
Publisher: Freundeskreis Kulturbahnhof Eller e.V, Düsseldorf 2009
Brochure: City of Berlin Art Department LAP
(page 25)
Oxana Chi describes her workshop concept and her choreography Through Gardens in memory to Tatjana Barbakoff
Author: Oxana Chi
Editor: Alina Enzensberger
Publisher: Camino, Berlin 2009
Art Catalog: Torsten Schlüter Tulipamwe Interview with Oxana
(page 177/181)
Oxana Chi interviewed the painter Torsten Schlüter.
Editor & Publisher: Torsten Schlüter, Weimar 1997