The break-up: team bios
Performer, Text, Sound and Voice: LATASHA N. NEVADA DIGGS
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs was born and raised in New York. She is an interdisciplinary poet, sound artist, and author of TwERK (2013) and Village (2023), among other titles. Diggs’s work is truly hybrid: Languages and modes are grafted together and furl out insistently from each bound splice. Diggs has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (2015), a Whiting Award (2016), and a C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art (2020), as well as grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, Creative Capital, Howard Foundation, and the Japan–United States Friendship Commission. Diggs has performed at an array of venues from CalArts, Valencia, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to poetry festivals in Denmark and Romania. As an independent curator, artistic director, and producer, she has presented events for BAMCafé, Brooklyn; Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York; and El Museo del Barrio, New York. She teaches at Brooklyn and Barnard Colleges and lives in New York..
green screen: GUY DE LANCEY
Guy de Lancey is an award-winning director, designer, and conceptual detective across many disciplines with a background in Performance, Film, Human Movement, and Neuropsychology.
He was awarded a collaborative research grant to attend Fabrica, the Benetton cross-disciplinary Arts and Communication Research Center in Italy, under the directorship of Godfrey Reggio and Oliviero Toscani. He also studied creative and screenwriting at NYU.
He has worked extensively in the performing arts as both director and designer, and has created and designed large-scale immersive multi-media experiences from Seoul, South Korea to South Africa.
He comes to Barnard with over twenty years of experience in multiple forms of image and story-making practice, having worked in film and theater as a director, cinematographer, lighting and scenic designer, and technical design consultant. He has had his artistic work exhibited at Signs and Symbols Gallery in New York and The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Austria.
He is the Associate Director of the Movement Lab and oversees the collaborative use and project development of the Movement Lab. He is an international ensemble faculty member at the New School of the Anthropocene, based in London, as well as a Salzburg Global Fellow.
EDITING AND Sound Design: Eve Cuyen
Eve Cuyen is an artist and a lover of all things film. She has a degree in music and is a sound designer, editor and cinematographer with award winning movies to her credit. Working mainly for an independent cinema and television, you can see her work projected in many film festivals in the United States and Europe. Her credits include Foreign Letters, Happy Hour, Living River, Our Hawaii, And Then Came Love, Twisted Fortune, Kali Ma, Zheng He for History International, The Sublet, a feature comedy and many more. Her full list of credits is available at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1993505/
Production, guitar, and electronics for I'mGoingToHaveToAskYouToLEAVE: VERNON REID
Vernon bio.