Senga Nengudi

During her residency at FWM, Senga Nengudi became interested in Pennsylvania’s (and FWM’s) rich history with textile production. Nengudi collected video footage, sound recordings, and hundreds of Jacquard punch cards at several local textile mills. She then invited composer Butch Morris to turn the ambient sounds into a composition to accompany the video projections. The resulting installation, Warp Trance, a four-channel audio and video montage of sounds and images derived from industrial weaving mills, evokes ritual and trance with its repetitive motion and audiovisual rhythms.