Senga Nengudi
Acting
Biography
Senga Nengudi is an African-American visual artist and curator. She is best known for her abstract sculptures that combine found objects and choreographed performance. She is part of a group of African-American avant-garde artists working in New York City and Los Angeles, from the 1960s and onward.
Known For
Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together jazz and punk shows, recitations by Jenkins, and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency.
Dream City
An impromptu choreography of housework, including rhythmic sweeping, dancing, moving around with plastic bags filled with clothing, and demonstrating a piece of art made of paper. - Lowery Stokes Sims and Archives of American Art finding aid.