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Hand animated imagery with original sound score by Aleksandra Vrebalov. from "Re-Action Genealogy and Countercanon" curated by Su Alonso and Ines Marful

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The camera searches through multiple lenses of a high-power microscope for the amygdala, the powerhouse of human emotion as the layered voice of a woman speaks a poem. "If you were to peer into the mourner's skull" Poem by Tom Sleigh; Simon Harding: video design; Capucine Gros: vocals; Roberto C. Lange: sound design; Recorded at the Joseph LeDoux Lab, NYU.

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In this clip we see a waveform of Matana Roberts' composition embedded into a felt curtain. A video of natural grasses is projected onto the waveform as Roberts sings her composition "Sing Back What Sung You In"

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A series of transparencies referencing dreams, sleep research, historical neurobiological imagery, musical annotation. In this clip Composer, musician Matana Roberts improvises as she watches transparencies build up on a lightbox.

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A series of transparencies referencing dreams, sleep research, historical neurobiological imagery, musical annotation. Composer, musician Matana Roberts improvises as she watches transparencies build up on a lightbox.

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A woman braids using patterns and techniques from the 19th c. craft of Mourning Braiding. As she braids she repeats pattern instructions from a mourning braiding manual.

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A woman braids using patterns and techniques from the 19th c. craft of Mourning Braiding. As she braids she repeats pattern instructions from a mourning braiding manual.

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As the camera searches through multiple lenses of a high-powered microscope, flashes of amygdala neurons appear beneath ghostly images. Musical composition by Matana Roberts.

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Field recordings, animated drawings from the Joseph LeDoux Neuroscience Lab, NYU, MRI's of the artist's brain. Video editing: Zoe FitzGerald, Sound Score: Roberto Carlos Lange