collaborations
I am excited to be a collaborating with Urban Bush Women for Urban Bush Women's HAINT BLU as writer and performer. The work has been developed through residencies at LumberYard, Harvest Works and The Climate Museum at Governor’s Island in NYC, ACC with Junebug Productions in New Orleans, The Historic Hampton House in Miami with Miami Live Arts, MassMOCA with Jacob’s Pillow, and at The Yard in Martha’s Vineyard.
In Gratitude: Reclaiming Sites of Trauma
How can we remember, reclaim, and transform sites of historical violence and trauma? Hannah Jacobs revisits a timely conversation with artists Tift Merritt, Nina Angela Mercer, Anna Schuleit Haber, and Deborah Luster on site specific art as a mode of healing …
https://fsp.duke.edu/blog/in-gratitude-creative-site-making/
Invocation
“Invocation for José Antonio Aponte” is a collaboration with film-maker Toshi Sakai for the Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom exhibition from 2017 to 2021. The exhibition has traveled from the Little Haiti Cultural Arts Center to NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center, and onward to the Power Plant Gallery at Duke University, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in La Habana and Galeria Oriente in Santiago de Cuba, and at Vanderbilt University.
“Invocation” also opened the Afrikana Film Festival in 2020.
Crank & Groove
Written and performed by Nina Angela Mercer for Speakeasy DC’s Crank and Groove: Go-Go Love Story at Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC in September 2013, partially funding by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
dramaturgy
Building A Better Fishtrap
Building a Better Fishtrap is an iterative performance project exploring water, and home and examining what we carry with us, leave behind, and reclaim …
125th & FREEdom
125th and Freedom is a durational, processional, public performance that travels down 125th Street from river to river, conceived and directed by Ebony Noelle Golden, produced by National Black Theatre for its world premiere.