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Nene Humphrey and Tom Sleigh in Conversation, Catskill Art Space May 6th 2023
Visual artists Nene Humphrey and poet Tom Sleigh have spent many years thinking about the biological and psychological aspects of how and why we dream. In collaboration with the LeDoux Neuroscience Lab, Humphrey has done extensive research into various theories of dreaming, and how we are hardwired to want to sing together. For Sleigh, too, dream and song are essential to his understanding of how poetry transforms our knowledge of the body, and of our emotions, into memorable speech. Through visual art and poems, Humphrey and Sleigh will be in conversation about the inner workings of the psyche and its biological underpinnings.
Menerbes 91909, Drawing featured on cover of I entered without words, Poems
By Jody Gladding, Princeton Universitiy Press, 2022
Nene Humphrey with collaborator Simon Harding in residence at Watermill Arts Center November 2021.
Starr Busby's gorgeous improvisations play throughout the video.
The Blood Project publication August 2021.
Poet Tom Sleigh writes about his rare blood disease,Illustrated with Small Worlds, 2004, embroidery on digital photo.
The Watermill Art Center, Watermill, NY announces Nene Humphrey in residence
Nov. 5–23, 2021
Nene Humphrey with collaborator Simon Harding will be in residence to develop video elements of an installation/performance This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time
Nene Humphrey performs on “All Night Long”, In the Margin of the Other, WMBR Radio Dec. 21, 2020
The Healing Water sung by Nene Humphrey and Catherine Mccurry from the performance Fieldwork featured In the Margin of the Other -“ All Night Long” WMBR Radio hosted by Sue Schardt
Nene Humphrey’s work featured in Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund’s film AGGIE
2020
A documentary about art, justice, and her mother, art collector and philanthropist, Agnes Gund. And Words of Art A creative, collaborative card game for art lovers featuring 150 works from renowned collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund’s never-before-published private art collection.Official selection 2020 Sundance film festival
Fieldwork premiered at the McNay Museum, San Antonio TX
January 12, 2017
Fieldwork is, at the same time, a performance about making art and art in the making. An artist, an animator, and a musician engage in an improvisational dialogue with projections, poems, and music. Conceived as a way of sharing the process of making art and its conceptual underpinnings, Fieldwork makes unexpected connections between art, science and storytelling—much like the brain weaves disparate thoughts and experiences together.
Circling the Center premiered at 3LD Art & Technology Center, Performance, NYC
October 13–15, 2016
Circling the Center is a visceral liturgy of sound, film, and performance, weaving images of brain circuitry and Victorian mourning rituals with sounds of serenading lab rats, and chanted braiding patterns. A woman weaves shimmering red wire, a choir sings a lament in this expansive synthesis of science, art, and emotion.
Everything that happens commissioned by the Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA premiered at the Carriage House Theater, Montalvo Arts Center
October 26, 2013
Everything that happens is based on a transcribed conversation with neuroscientist, Joseph LeDoux, about the synaptic events in the brain. The choral score uses a simple system employing word syllables, vowels and breathing patterns. Video and text projections weave in and out of the piece. Elena Sharkova conducts the Cantabile Youth Singers choir. Roberto C. Lange sound score.