MANIA : Yatta Zoker

YATTA is a Sierra-Leonean American digipoet and performer who remixes shamanic sounds with their jazz vocals to create music to lie down in.

A former Flux Factory resident, they run Operations at DIY Collective, Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY. Yatta has presented their poetry and music at Vassar College, the New School, Cornell University and the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival at Knockdown Center.

Their work has been featured in Rookie Magazine, Dazed, Mask Magazine, Tiny Mixtapes, and more.

PROJECT

MANIA is a collection of digital poetry, music, and collages reflecting psychosis as a reaction to oppressive environments. Yatta Zoker uses abrupt tonal shifts and sonic/visual patchwork to express the schisms of thought and time that can arise within marginalized people, namely black people, who have no choice but to hold societies discrepancies within their bodies.