Layan Srour
DEARBORN 2025 - 2026
Layan Srour is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and curator exploring sound, media, and visual art, with a practice focused on memory, movement, displacement, and belonging; all deeply shaped by her upbringing in Beirut, Lebanon.
Her curatorial and residency work centers on site-specific and community-driven performance through Jalasat / جلسات in partnership with the Arab American National Museum and Artists At Work. Her work, contributions, and curations have been presented with organizations and festivals such as the Arab American National Museum, Arab Film Festival, Arab America Foundation, Detroit Jazz Festival, New Music Detroit, Blue Moon Radio, Radio alHara, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Wayne State University, and more.
She is one half of Taqsim, an Arabic electronic and experimental duo with Yvonne Pruneau, rooted in improvisation and personal soundscapes recorded in Lebanon. Drawing on these textures and a shared search for the feeling of home, Taqsim blends synthesizers, sampled drums, and layered soundscapes to connect Detroit with Beirut’s resilient energy.
COMMUNITY PROJECT
Jalasat (Arabic for “gatherings”) is a monthly pop-up performance series, in collaboration with the Arab American National Museum and Artists At Work, where we reframe site-specific performance as a point of community care, cultural exchange, and collective storytelling through live music, poetry and art.
Jalasat aims to strengthen community connections, increase artist visibility, and make cultural engagement more accessible. Each monthly pop-up will take place in a different local café or gathering space, featuring a unique lineup of performers and vendors while maintaining the spirit of creativity and togetherness at its core. Artists are culture carriers and bearers of community as well as keepers of collective memory. Through the support of the AANM, AAW, The City of Dearborn, small businesses, performers, and audience members, Jalasat has become a space of expression, nostalgia, and community.
